Dennis Sharp
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Dennis Sharp was a British
architect
, professor, curator, historian, author and editor.
Dennis Sharp studied at Bedford Modern School
(1945-1951) and at Luton School of Art (1951-1954). From 1954 to 1957 he studied at the Architectural Association School of Architecture
in London and was Leverhulme Research Fellow, School of Architecture, University of Liverpool
from 1960-63.
In 1963, he was appointed senior research architect, Civic Trust for the North West, Manchester. In the following year he was Lecturer at the School of Architecture, University of Manchester
(1964-1968).
In 1962, he became a correspondent for Architectural Design and editor of Architecture North West.
Appointed Head of History studies at the AA school in 1968, he was later a senior lecturer. He was AA General Editor and founder Editor of AA Quarterly (1968-1982), and member of the AA school's council and an AA Vice president.
In 1969, he set up in practice as part of Atelier St. Albans until 1974. In 1988, he became editor of the journal World Architecture: Journal of the International Academy of Architecture of the IAA - International Academy of Architecture
in Sofia
, Bulgaria
. Since 2000, Dennis Sharp was a correspondent for "L'Architettura" Rome/ London, founded by Bruno Zevi
.
Sharp was a guest lecturer at Liverpool University (1959-1968), Manchester University (1959-1968), Columbia University
New York (1980), Adelaide University (1984), University of Malta
(1968-1970), Helsinki University of Technology
(1998), University of Nottingham
(1996-1999) and University College London
, RCA
, North London Polytechnic
, Oxford Brookes University
, the University of Cambridge
, and the University of Sheffield
.
In 1991, Sharp became a professor at the International Academy of Architecturehttp://www.iaa-ngo.org/home.php (IAA) in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Sharp participated in the international architecture symposium "Mensch und Raum" (Man and Space) at the Vienna University of Technology
(Technische Universität Wien) in 1984, which received much international attention. Other participants included Justus Dahinden
, Pierre Vago
, Bruno Zevi
, Jorge Glusberg
, Otto Kapfinger, Frei Otto
, Paolo Soleri
, Ernst Gisel, and Ionel Schein.
Since 1977 Sharp was Chairman of the International Committee of Architectural Critics
. From 1991 to 1993 he was Vice President of the Royal Institute of British Architects
. In 1992 he was a co-founder of the RIBA
Architecture Centre and served as its chairman until 1996.
Dennis Sharp was a partner in Dennis Sharp Architects (DSA) in Hertford and London. Projects include the award-winning Strawdance Studio, the renovation of the major Listed Buildings at Royal Ascot Racecourse (with HOK Sport), house conversions in Cambridge and Hertford and the renovation of Foster's Renault Centre Swindon. He was also Co-Chair of DOCOMOMO in UK
.
Sharp was the author and editor of several books, including Modern Architecture and Exrpessionism", London: Longman,1966, "The Picture Place" London: Evelyn "The Bauhaus", Phaidon, "Twentieth Century Architecture. A Visual History" (4th edition:2002) and The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Architects and Architecture (1991) as well as surveys of the work of Calatrava, Manfredi Nicoletti
, England and Kurokawa. Recent publications include the new translation of Hermann Muthesius's The English House', Frances Lincoln, 2007.
Great Britain
Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...
architect
Architect
An architect is a person trained in the planning, design and oversight of the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to offer or render services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the...
, professor, curator, historian, author and editor.
Dennis Sharp studied at Bedford Modern School
Bedford Modern School
Bedford Modern School is a British co-educational independent school in the Harpur area of Bedford, in the county of Bedfordshire, in England.Bedford Modern comprises a junior school and a senior school...
(1945-1951) and at Luton School of Art (1951-1954). From 1954 to 1957 he studied at the Architectural Association School of Architecture
Architectural Association School of Architecture
The Architectural Association School of Architecture, more usually known as the AA, is an architectural school in London, United Kingdom...
in London and was Leverhulme Research Fellow, School of Architecture, University of Liverpool
University of Liverpool
The University of Liverpool is a teaching and research university in the city of Liverpool, England. It is a member of the Russell Group of large research-intensive universities and the N8 Group for research collaboration. Founded in 1881 , it is also one of the six original "red brick" civic...
from 1960-63.
In 1963, he was appointed senior research architect, Civic Trust for the North West, Manchester. In the following year he was Lecturer at the School of Architecture, University of Manchester
University of Manchester
The University of Manchester is a public research university located in Manchester, United Kingdom. It is a "red brick" university and a member of the Russell Group of research-intensive British universities and the N8 Group...
(1964-1968).
In 1962, he became a correspondent for Architectural Design and editor of Architecture North West.
Appointed Head of History studies at the AA school in 1968, he was later a senior lecturer. He was AA General Editor and founder Editor of AA Quarterly (1968-1982), and member of the AA school's council and an AA Vice president.
In 1969, he set up in practice as part of Atelier St. Albans until 1974. In 1988, he became editor of the journal World Architecture: Journal of the International Academy of Architecture of the IAA - International Academy of Architecture
International Academy of Architecture
The International Academy of Architecture - a non-profit-making company for performing activities for private benefit is a non-governmental and non-profit organization with special status in the United Nations Economic and Social Council , located in Sofia, Bulgaria. The Bulgarian name is also...
in Sofia
Sofia
Sofia is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria and the 12th largest city in the European Union with a population of 1.27 million people. It is located in western Bulgaria, at the foot of Mount Vitosha and approximately at the centre of the Balkan Peninsula.Prehistoric settlements were excavated...
, Bulgaria
Bulgaria
Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...
. Since 2000, Dennis Sharp was a correspondent for "L'Architettura" Rome/ London, founded by Bruno Zevi
Bruno Zevi
Bruno Zevi was an Italian architect, historian, professor, curator, author and editor. Zevi was a vocal critic of 'classicising' modern architecture and postmodernism.-University years:...
.
Sharp was a guest lecturer at Liverpool University (1959-1968), Manchester University (1959-1968), Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
New York (1980), Adelaide University (1984), University of Malta
University of Malta
The University of Malta is the highest educational institution in Malta Europe and is one of the most respected universities in Europe. The University offers undergraduate Bachelor's Degrees, postgraduate Master's Degrees and postgraduate Doctorates .-History:The University of Malta was founded in...
(1968-1970), Helsinki University of Technology
Helsinki University of Technology
Aalto University School of Science and Technology , was the temporary name for Helsinki University of Technology during the process of forming the Aalto University...
(1998), University of Nottingham
University of Nottingham
The University of Nottingham is a public research university based in Nottingham, United Kingdom, with further campuses in Ningbo, China and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia...
(1996-1999) and University College London
University College London
University College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and the oldest and largest constituent college of the federal University of London...
, RCA
RCA
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, North London Polytechnic
University of North London
The University of North London was a university in the United Kingdom from 1992 to 2002. On 1 August 2002, it merged with London Guildhall University to form London Metropolitan University. The former University of North London premises now form the new university's north campus, situated on...
, Oxford Brookes University
Oxford Brookes University
Oxford Brookes University is a new university in Oxford, England. It was named to honour the school's founding principal, John Brookes. It has been ranked as the best new university by the Sunday Times University Guide 10 years in a row...
, the University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
, and the University of Sheffield
University of Sheffield
The University of Sheffield is a research university based in the city of Sheffield in South Yorkshire, England. It is one of the original 'red brick' universities and is a member of the Russell Group of leading research intensive universities...
.
In 1991, Sharp became a professor at the International Academy of Architecturehttp://www.iaa-ngo.org/home.php (IAA) in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Sharp participated in the international architecture symposium "Mensch und Raum" (Man and Space) at the Vienna University of Technology
Vienna University of Technology
Vienna University of Technology is one of the major universities in Vienna, the capital of Austria. Founded in 1815 as the "Imperial-Royal Polytechnic Institute" , it currently has about 26,200 students , 8 faculties and about 4,000 staff members...
(Technische Universität Wien) in 1984, which received much international attention. Other participants included Justus Dahinden
Justus Dahinden
Justus Dahinden is a notable Swiss architect, teacher and writer about architecture.- Life :From 1945 to 1949, he studied architecture at ETH Zürich , graduating in 1956 with his Ph.D. In 1955 he started his own architecture office in Zürich...
, Pierre Vago
Pierre Vago
Pierre Vago was a notable French architect who worked on the Hansaviertel in Berlin. Known Internationally as the publisher of L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui and General Secretary of the UIA...
, Bruno Zevi
Bruno Zevi
Bruno Zevi was an Italian architect, historian, professor, curator, author and editor. Zevi was a vocal critic of 'classicising' modern architecture and postmodernism.-University years:...
, Jorge Glusberg
Jorge Glusberg
Jorge Glusberg is an author, publisher and curator as well as professor.Glusberg is longtime director of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes MNBA in Buenos Aires and co-director of Comité Internacional de Críticos de Arquitectura CICA. In 2002 he was leader of the Buenos Aires Biennale...
, Otto Kapfinger, Frei Otto
Frei Otto
Frei Paul Otto is a German architect and structural engineer.- Life :Otto was born in Siegmar . He studied architecture in Berlin before being drafted into the Luftwaffe as a fighter pilot in the last years of World War II...
, Paolo Soleri
Paolo Soleri
Paolo Soleri is an Italian-American architect. He established Arcosanti and the educational Cosanti Foundation. Soleri is a lecturer in the College of Architecture at Arizona State University and a National Design Award recipient in 2006.-Early life:Soleri was born in Turin, Italy...
, Ernst Gisel, and Ionel Schein.
Since 1977 Sharp was Chairman of the International Committee of Architectural Critics
International Committee of Architectural Critics
The International Committee of Architectural Critics is a non-profit organization of international architecture critics, and was founded in Mexico City on October 26, 1978, during the 13th World Kongress of the Union internationale des architectes . The CICA is headquartered nearby the UIA in Paris...
. From 1991 to 1993 he was Vice President of the Royal Institute of British Architects
Royal Institute of British Architects
The Royal Institute of British Architects is a professional body for architects primarily in the United Kingdom, but also internationally.-History:...
. In 1992 he was a co-founder of the RIBA
Riba
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Architecture Centre and served as its chairman until 1996.
Dennis Sharp was a partner in Dennis Sharp Architects (DSA) in Hertford and London. Projects include the award-winning Strawdance Studio, the renovation of the major Listed Buildings at Royal Ascot Racecourse (with HOK Sport), house conversions in Cambridge and Hertford and the renovation of Foster's Renault Centre Swindon. He was also Co-Chair of DOCOMOMO in UK
United Kingdom
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.
Sharp was the author and editor of several books, including Modern Architecture and Exrpessionism", London: Longman,1966, "The Picture Place" London: Evelyn "The Bauhaus", Phaidon, "Twentieth Century Architecture. A Visual History" (4th edition:2002) and The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Architects and Architecture (1991) as well as surveys of the work of Calatrava, Manfredi Nicoletti
Manfredi Nicoletti
Manfredi Nicoletti is an Italian architect.- Biography :Born in Rieti, Nicoletti began his artistic and intellectual career very young in the studio of Giacomo Balla. In Rome he studied under Pier Luigi Nervi and graduated in architecture in 1954...
, England and Kurokawa. Recent publications include the new translation of Hermann Muthesius's The English House', Frances Lincoln, 2007.
Publications
- Dennis Sharp: "Architektur im zwanzigsten Jahrhundert", Praeger, Munich 1973, ISBN 3-7796-4008-2
- Dennis Sharp, Jim Richards, Nikolaus Pevsner: "Anti-Rationalists and the Rationalists", Architectural Press, London, 2000, ISBN 0-7506-4815-5
- Dennis Sharp: "Architecture in Detail - Bauhaus, Dessau, Walter Gropius", Phaidon London, Berlin 2002, ISBN 0-7148-4217-6
- Dennis Sharp, Modern Architecture and Expressionism. Longman London and George Braziller: New York, 1966, ASIN: B000H42EWQ
- Dennis Sharp: "Twentieth Century Architecture: A Visual History", 4th edn, Images Publishing Group, London, 2004, ISBN 1-86470-085-8
- Dennis Sharp: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Architects and Architecture, Whitney Library of Design, New York, 1991, ISBN 0-8230-2539-X.
- Dennis Sharp, Catherine Cooke, DOCOMOMO: The Modern Movement in Architecture, Uitgeverij, 010 Publishers, 2000, ISBN 90-6450-405-9.
- Dennis Sharp, Sources of Modern Architecture: A Critical Bibliography. Granada, London, 1981, ISBN 0-246-11218-2.3rd edn,
- Dennis Sharp (ed.), Planning and Architecture. Essays presented to Arthur KornArthur Korn (architect)Arthur Korn was a German Jewish architect and urban planner who was a proponent of modernism in Germany and the UK.-Life and career:...
by the Architectural Association, Barrie and Rockliff, London,1967. - Dennis Sharp (ed.), Santiago Calatrava (Architectural Monographs). Wiley Academy, Chicester, 1996, ISBN 1-85490-454-X.
- Dennis Sharp (ed.),Santiago Calatrava, Spon Press, London, 1994, ISBN 0-419-19570-X.
- Dennis Sharp, Organic Architecture. London, Architectural Press, ISBN 0-7506-1364-5