Colin St John Wilson. Buildings and Projects

This erudite, comprehensive publication spans projects from throughout his career, from early work, such as the groundbreaking 1956 'This is Tomorrow' collaborative exhibition of architects and artists; to his own house in Cambridge (where he was the University’s Head of the School of Architecture 1975–1989); to perhaps his most celebrated building, the British Library in St Pancras and its extension. The book takes the reader on a journey through modern British architectural history, finishing in the present day with the masterplanning of the Royal Academy. The book also includes several of his late buildings, including the contemporary wing to the Pallant House Gallery in Chichester, which opened in 2006, and houses St John Wilson’s extensive collection of modern British art. Colin St John Wilson: Buildings and Projects beautifully illustrates the thought processes and theories behind the work, with essays, photographs, drawings and diagrams; as well as genealogical and chronological charts, that place his architecture within a historical context. Fascinating texts by respected architects and writers including Professor Roger Stonehouse and Eric Parry fully elucidate St John Wilson’s contribution to modern architecture.

Colin St John Wilson: Buildings and Projects is the perfect companion to Black Dog Publishing’s re-issue of St John Wilson’s seminal The Other Tradition of Modern Architecture: The Uncompleted Project.

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Artists Biography

(b Cheltenham, 14 March 1922). English architect, teacher and writer. He was educated at Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge (MA 1942), and then, after service in World War II, he studied at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University of London (1946–9). In 1950 he joined the London County Council Architects’ Department, where he worked in the Housing Division, first under Robert Matthew and then under Leslie Martin; at this time the LCC was among the pioneers of responsible, modernist public authority housing under the impetus of post-war enthusiasm for the Welfare State. Wilson left the LCC in 1955 to take up a lectureship at the School of Architecture, University of Cambridge, and he set up in private practice there. He designed the influential exhibition This is Tomorrow (1956), staged at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, the other participants including Alison and Peter Smithson, members of the Independent Group at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, of which Wilson was also a member. He also designed several distinguished small houses in and around Cambridge, for example two houses (1961–4) in Grantchester Road and the Cornford House (1965–9), Madingley Road, the brick and timber construction of which is a variation of the vernacular.

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