The work of Edward Cullinan Architects has never been fashionable. Admired, certainly;imitated or adapted, undoubtedly; but fashionable is not the adjedive. Why is this? Partly because the work is difficult to pigeonhole, which for elements of the media makes it of minor interest; more significantly, because it has either bypassed,or provided an oblique critique of, the various architectural moods and ideologies which have suffused British architedure in the last 50 years.

Edward Cullinan is an admirer of Cubism,and a product of that demanding architectural taskmaster Denys Lasdun.Yet it would be impossible to identify the Cullinan oeuvre as directly relating to either,except in the negative sense that the practice never succumbed to the advances of those arrogant opponents of Modernism and all its works. They might have imagined that a firm which had designed some gates for the Prince of Wales (never implemented), and who were clearly out of love with Brutalism and high-tech, might have been ripe for conversion to postmodernism in all its toytown pomp. Not a chance.

Beginning Ends

Middles Beginnings

Paul Finch

Archaeolink Visitor Centre

Photographic Essays by Richard Learoyd

Territories: Architecture

as Place-Making

Routes and Journeys

Fountains Abbey Visitor Centre

Making Places

Ready Mix Concrete International

Headquarters

Plans:

The Geometry of an Idea

Islands of Order

Platonic Pavilions

Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Sections: From

the Cave to the Nest

Solar Sections

Breathing Buildings

Cave and Horizon

Inhabited Roofs

Earth to Sky

Layered Facades

Camden Mews

The Art of Making

Buildings

Doing It Yourself

System Building

Four Elements of Architecture

Striated Walls

Skin and Scales

Multiple Layers

Downland Gridshell

Context: An Architecture

of Resistance

Thanks and Credits

Staff

Selected Projeds and Buildings

Further Reading

Index

Colophon