Gorden Cullen Townscape

BEHAVIOUR/ PERCEPTUAL APPROACH DEEPTI R ADIGA , VIJAYA V HEGDE

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

GORDEN CULLEN DEEPTI R ADIGA , VIJAYA V HEGDE

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  Cu Cull llen en wa wass   born born in Cal Calve verle rley y,   Pudsey Pudsey,, near   Leeds, Yorks orkshir hire, e, England.   He   studied archite architecture cture   at the Royal Royal Polyte Polytechni chnicc Institut Institution, ion, the present day University of Westminster.   He subs subsequ equen ently tly work worked as a draughtsman in various architects' offices .   He never qualified or practiced as an architect.   Betw Between een 19 1944 44 and 1946 1946 he worked worked in the  planning office of the Development and Welfare Department in Barbados , as his   poor eyesight   meant that he was   unfit to serve in   the British armed forces.   He later returned to London and joined the   Architectural  Review   journal, first as a draughtsman and then as a writer on planning policies.   There he produce produced d a large number of influentia influentiall editorials and case studies on the theory of planning and the design of towns.

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INTRODUCTION

  One of the ffew ew large-scale Cullen works on public display is the mural in the foyer of the Erno Goldfinger  designed Greenside Primary School in west London, completed in 1953.   His 1958 ceramic mural in Coventry, depicting the history of the City and its post-war regeneration.   His techniques consisted largely of sketchy drawings understanding tanding of that conveyed a particularly clear unders his ideas, and these had a considerable influence on subsequent architectural illustration styles.

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  He also illustrated several books by other various authors, before writing his own book - based on the idea of Townscape - in 1961.   The Concise Townscape  has subsequently been republished republishe d around 15 times, proving to be one of the most popular books on Urban Design in the 20th Century.

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INTRODUCTION

ABOUT THE BOOK

THE CONCISE TOWNSCAPE

DEEPTI R ADIGA , VIJAYA V HEGDE