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The Sheffield Urban Study project

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 August 2008

Peter Blundell Jones,
Alan Williams and
Jo Lintonbon
Peter Blundell Jones
Affiliation:
School of Architectural StudiesUniversity of SheffiledBox 595The Arts TowerSheffield S10 2UJUK
Alan Williams
Affiliation:
School of Architectural StudiesUniversity of SheffiledBox 595The Arts TowerSheffield S10 2UJUK
Jo Lintonbon
Affiliation:
School of Architectural StudiesUniversity of SheffiledBox 595The Arts TowerSheffield S10 2UJUK
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Abstract

In the UK, government policy has encouraged architecture schools to be more research active and there is pressure to make the two final years of the five year course more definitively postgraduate. The University of Sheffield has responded with an experiment that combines studio teaching with real research on the city and its history. Sheffield is Britain's fourth largest city with a population of around half a million. It grew very rapidly in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, It now employs a fraction of the former labour force and the city is having to adjust its identity.

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Urbanism
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arq: Architectural Research Quarterly , Volume 3 , Issue 3 , September 1999, pp. 235 - 244
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999

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Notes

1. In the UK, most architecture students spend the year long interval between the third and fourth years of their full-time architecture education gaining practical experience in an architect's office.

2. The official maps of the UK are surveyed and produced by the Ordnance Survey agency.

3. Visiting Professor Dan Cruickshank, who was a tutor and adviser on the project, published an article about this Georgian, Sheffield development in The Architects' Journal, 22 10 1998, pp. 34–35.Google Scholar

4. For the history of Cutlers' Hall see R., Harper, ‘An Architectural History of the Cutlers’ Hall' in Binfield, C. and Hey, D. eds. Mesters to Masters: a History of the Company of Cutlers in Hallamshire, Oxford University Press, 1997, Ch. 7, pp.115–161.Google Scholar

5. ‘A bicycle shed is a building; Lincoln Cathedral is a piece of architecture…the term architecture only applies to buildings designed with a view to aesthetic appeal.’ Pevsner, Nikolaus, opening paragraph of An Outline of European Architecture, Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1943.Google Scholar

6. For a good concise history of the development of the profession see A., Saint, The Image of the Architect, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1983.Google Scholar

7. In the course of the last fewyears, a considerable number of building projects for the arts, sports and other social uses in the UK have been partially funded by substantial contributions from the National Lottery which was established in 1994.

8. While it is justifiable to rebuild parts of the lost city fabric for different uses, as with the Nash terraces of Regent's Park, London after wartime bombing, it is clearly misleading to the public memory to build ‘period’ developments that never existed such as Quinlan Terry's Richmond Riverside. For a critique of the latter see P., Blundell Jones, ‘Richmond Riverside: sugaring the pill’ in The Architectural Review, 11 1988, pp.86–90.Google Scholar

9. This was the great period of ‘The invention of tradition’. See the book of that name edited by Hobsbawm, E. and Ranger, T., Cambridge University Press, 1983.Google Scholar

10. For example, Gunnar A.splund's law courts extension at Gothenburg of 1937, Gottfried Böhm's Bensberg Town Hall of 1963, Giancarlo De Carlo's Magistero Building at Urbino of 1979, Karljosef Schattner's many interventions in the town of Eichstätt in the ‘70s and ’80s, and Behnisch & Partner's Post Museum in Frankfurt of 1990.