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Reproductions of Philip Johnson’s article “School at Hunstanton”, Architectural Review, vol. 116, August 1954
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created 1954-08-19
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The post-World War II generation of English architects is marked by a particular appetite for photography, which is present in large numbers in their archives. Whether as a working or as a marketing tool, photography also became an important pedagogical tool in their apprenticeship. Seeing in images quantitatively surpasses seeing in situ. Thus, these 6 photographs of the Hustanton school have a rhetorical function: to show it as a coherent visual entity—whose coherence is based not on a geometric search for form, but on the valorization of the intrinsic qualities of the materials. As Philip Johnson explained in the article: “It may be read from all sides as a block enfolding inner courts”, or “at Hunstanton every element is truly what it appears to be, serving as necessary structure and necessary decoration”.

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