Principios de la forma urbana en el trabajo de Leslie Martin y el LUBFS

  1. Javier De Esteban Garbayo
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ZARCH: Journal of interdisciplinary studies in Architecture and Urbanism

ISSN: 2341-0531

Year of publication: 2017

Issue: 8

Pages: 170-183

Type: Article

DOI: 10.26754/OJS_ZARCH/ZARCH.201782154 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDialnet editor

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Abstract

The review of modern architecture raised in Britain during the fifties and sixties became a reference to understand the evolution of the architectural thought during the second half of the twentieth century. One of the most discusses subject was the effort to develop new principles of urban form and overcome some limitations of the modern city. The role of Leslie Martin was particularly significant both in practice and in the academic field as director of The Cambridge School of Architecture and the LUBFS (Land Use and Built Form Studies). His work, in addition to a unique way of understanding the city, reflects some of the most relevant topics discussed in this context. In the same way that the understanding of the successes and failures of urban proposals such as those of Leslie Martin allow us to understand the postmodern fragmentary reaction, they also provide a basis to rethink the contemporary city.

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El proyecto, asimismo, remite a otras experiencias desarrolladas por esos años como la propuesta para el CIAM X (1956) de Howell, Patridge, Killick y Amis (fig. 3), si bien a través de un lenguaje formal ligado a la abstracción. Hay que señalar que los cuatro arquitectos ya habían trabajado junto a Leslie Martin en Alton West dentro de la estructura del LCC y que el propio Bill Howell sucedió a Leslie Martin como director de la Escuela de Cambridge unos años más tarde (1972). En St. Pancras también se da continuidad al ejercicio académico que unos años antes Patrick Hodgkinson había desarrollado para la zona de Brixton como alumno de la Architectural Association, y como él mismo señala, suponía una crítica a la política edificatoria del LCC y la ciudad en altura.8

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