Dennis Sharp

Dennis Sharp ( born November 30, 1933, England; † 6 May 2010) was a British architect, professor, curator, author and editor.

Life

Dennis Sharp studied at Bedford Modern School (1945-1951), at the Luton School of Art (1951-1954) and from 1954 to 1957 at the AA School of Architecture in London. 1960 to 1963 he was a research assistant at the University of Liverpool.

Since 1962 he worked as a correspondent for the architecture and design magazine " Architectural Design " ( 1962-1970 ) and "Architecture Northwest ". In the years 1967 to 1983, he was active as editor of the monthly magazine and other publications of the London AA. Since 1988 to the present he is the chief editor of the " World Architecture: Journal of the International Academy of Architecture" of the International Academy of Architecture in Sofia, Bulgaria as well as the magazine " International Architecture and Construction ". Since 2000 is also a correspondent for the " L' Architettura " Rome / London, founded by Bruno Zevi newspaper.

Dennis Sharp was 1968-1982 Professor at the AA School of Architecture in London and from 1968 to 1972 held the chair of architecture and design history at the AA School of Architecture in London. For many years he has been a visiting professor at many universities, such as University of Liverpool (1959-1968), University of Manchester (1959-1968), Columbia University, New York ( 1980), University of Adelaide, Adelaide (1984 ), Royal University of Malta (1968-1970), Helsinki University of Technology ( Otaniemi ) Finland ( 1998), University of Nottingham (1996-1999 ) and UCL, RCA, North London poly, Oxford, Cambridge and University of Sheffield. In 1991 he became professor at the "International Academy of Architecture" in Sofia, Bulgaria. In 1984 he participated in the "International Architecture Symposium" Man and Space " (Men and Space ) at the Vienna University of Technology in part.

Since 1977, Dennis Sharp was director of the International Committee of Architectural Critics (CICA ). From 1991 to 1993, Dennis Sharp Vice - President of the RIBA and 1990-1999 of the British National Council. In 1992 he was co-founder of the RIBA Architecture Centre and its president during 1996 to 1999. Since 1999 he was the British representative of the regional DOCOMOMO. In addition, he was one of the judges of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture since its founding in 1994.

Sharp has a large number of books on architecture and contemporary all important architects published, which have been translated into many languages.

Literature (selection )

  • Dennis Sharp: "Architecture in the twentieth century," Praeger Munich 1973, ISBN 3-7796-4008-2
  • Dennis Sharp, James Steele, Frank O. Gehry: "Architecture in Detail - California Aerospace Museum by Frank Gehry ", Phaidon Berlin 2002, ISBN 0-7148-2781-9
  • Dennis Sharp, JM Richards, Nikolaus Pevsner: " Anti- Rationalists and the Rationalists ", 2000, ISBN 0-7506-4815-5
  • Dennis Sharp: "Architecture in Detail - Bauhaus, Dessau, Walter Gropius ," Phaidon Berlin 2002, ISBN 0-7148-4217-6
  • Dennis Sharp: " Twentieth Centuty Architecture: A Visual History ", 2004, ISBN 1-86470-085-8
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