A Short History of British Architecture: From Stonehenge to the Shard
by Simon Jenkins · 7 Nov 2024 · 364pp · 94,801 words
. The expansion of higher education in the late 1960s coincided with the climax of the brutalist era, hence the concrete layers of Denys Lasdun’s University of East Anglia and Robert Matthew and Stirrat Johnson-Marshall (RMJM)’s disjointed pavilions on the campus at York. Basil Spence’s spartan University of Sussex made few
Frommer's England 2011: With Wales
by Darwin Porter and Danforth Prince · 2 Jan 2010
. Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts The center was the gift of Sir Robert and Lady Sainsbury, who, in 1973, contributed their private collection to the University of East Anglia, 5km (3 miles) west of Norwich on Earlham Road. Together with their son David, they gave an endowment to house the collection. Designed by Sir
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foremost in the country, including modern, ancient, classical, and ethnographic art. Its most prominent works are those by Francis Bacon, Alberto Giacometti, and Henry Moore. University of East Anglia, Earlham Rd. & 01603/593199. www.scva.org.uk. Free admission. Tues–Sun 10am–5pm (until 8pm on Wed). Bus: 25, 26, or 27 from Castle
The Rough Guide to England
by Rough Guides · 29 Mar 2018
220,000 inhabitants, it remains an easy and enjoyable city to negotiate. Yet Norwich is no provincial backwater. In the 1960s, the foundation of the University of East Anglia (UEA) made it much more cosmopolitan and bolstered its arts scene, while in the 1980s it attracted new high-tech companies, who created something of
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the Dutch landscape painters of the seventeenth century. The leading figures were John Crome (1768–1821) – aka “Old Crome” – and John Sell Cotman (1782–1842). University of East Anglia Earlham Rd, NR4 7TJ • UEA Campus Open access • Free • 01603 456161, uea.ac.uk • Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts Tues–Fri 10am–6pm, Sat & Sun
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some exhibitions • 01603 593199, scva.ac.uk • Among several services, bus #25 runs to the UEA campus from the train station and Castle Meadow The University of East Anglia (UEA) occupies a sprawling campus on the western outskirts of the city beside the B1108. Its buildings are resolutely modern, an assortment of concrete-and
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and 1960s, including Basil Spence’s (1907–76) startling replacement of the bombed Coventry Cathedral (1951–59); Denys Lasdun’s (1914–2001) ziggurats at the University of East Anglia in Norwich (1963); and the Royal Festival Hall (1949–51), a triumphant Modernist departure from the traditional model for classical music venues. 1980 to 2000
Norman Foster: A Life in Architecture
by Deyan Sudjic · 1 Sep 2010
end it was Lisa Sainsbury who helped to find the nurses to care for Wendy. Robert and Lisa Sainsbury had offered their collection to the University of East Anglia in 1973. One of their daughters had studied there, and in Sainsbury’s eyes it had the particular merit of not being Oxbridge – he saw
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attempt at that feverish, half-dystopian, biggest-of-the-big architectural idea of the 1960s – building a megastructure in Britain. Tradition had been abolished. The University of East Anglia wall, backed by an elevated walkway, contains student residences, as well as laboratories, teaching spaces, and classrooms. It has the massive presence of an aircraft
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Kensington, for building a new airport in Shanghai, and universities in Malaysia. You could see the original structural model for the Sainsbury Centre at the University of East Anglia, discarded in favour of the even more beautiful version that was actually built when Foster had his last-minute brainwave. There are rough-and-ready
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(2nd wife), 261 Kohl, Helmut, 206, 207, 208 Koolhaas, Rem, 233, 285 Krier, Leon, 77 Poundbury, Dorset, 141 Larkin Guaranty Offices, Buffalo, 77 Lasdun, Denys, University of East Anglia campus, 130–1, 138 Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris), 11, 15, 18, 49, 75 work influences NF, 37, 55–6, 82, 291 Lee, Richard
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projects, then designed a series of industrial buildings. The breakthrough projects were the offices for Willis Faber in Ipswich, and the Sainsbury Centre at the University of East Anglia, of which Buckminster Fuller (top) memorably asked, ‘How much does your building weigh, Norman?’ The success of the Olsen building in London’s docks, with
Economics Rules: The Rights and Wrongs of the Dismal Science
by Dani Rodrik · 12 Oct 2015 · 226pp · 59,080 words
.” Greg Mankiw, “News Flash: Economists Agree,” February 14, 2009, Greg Mankiw’s Blog, http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2009/02/news-flash-economists-agree.html. § As University of East Anglia economist Robert Sugden points out, “In economics . . . there seems to be a convention that modellers need not be explicit about what their models tell us
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about the real world.” Sugden, “Credible Worlds, Capacities and Mechanisms” (unpublished paper, School of Economics, University of East Anglia, August 2008), 18. CHAPTER 6 Economics and Its Critics An economist, a physician, and an architect are traveling on a train together, and they fall
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Governments?” Journal of Political Economy 106, no. 5 (October 1998): 997–1032. 19. Robert Sugden, “Credible Worlds, Capacities and Mechanisms” (unpublished paper, School of Economics, University of East Anglia, August 2008). CHAPTER 4: Models and Theories 1. Andrew Gelman, “Causality and Statistical Learning,” American Journal of Sociology 117 (2011): 955–66; Andrew Gelman and
Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century
by Geoffrey Parker · 29 Apr 2013 · 1,773pp · 486,685 words
, geographers, archaeologists and climatologists from 30 countries to attend the first international ‘Conference on Climate and History’, hosted by the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia (England) – a unit sponsored by (among others) British Petroleum and Royal Dutch Shell. Cambridge University Press later published a volume containing the most innovative of
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of the 1979 conference. Sanderson, The history, 285, notes BP and Shell sponsorship of the Climatic Research Unit, founded in 1971 as part of the University of East Anglia's School of Environmental Sciences. The Cambridge University Press volume was Wigley, Climate and history. 3. Report of the World Food Conference, Rome, 5–16
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November 1974 (New York, 1975), 6–8 (at FAORLC-41001WorldFoodConference doc, accessed 9 Mar. 2012. Note that in 1981, two years after the University of East Anglia conference, Amartya Sen published his influential Poverty and famines, arguing that famine reflected faulty distribution rather than defective production: see page 108 above. 4. Houghton
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(1640–1659) (Barcelona, 1956) Sandberg, B., Warrior pursuits: Noble culture and civil conflict in early modern France (Baltimore, 2010) Sanderson, M., The history of the University of East Anglia 1918–2000 (London, 2002) Sansom, G., A history of Japan, 1615–1867 (Stanford, 1963) Santoro, M., Le secentine napoletane della Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli (Rome
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: Social conflict and political unrest in early modern Japan (Ithaca, NY, 1995) White, L. G., ‘War and government in a Castilian province: Extremadura 1640–1668’ (University of East Anglia PhD thesis, 1985) White, L. G., ‘Strategic geography and the Spanish Monarchy's failure to recover Portugal, 1640–1668’, Journal of Military History, LXXI (2007
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), (xlvii), (xlviii), (xlix), (l), (li), (lii), (liii), (liv), (lv), (lvi), (lvii), (lviii), (lix), (lx), (lxi), (lxii), (lxiii) Climate, see Little Ice Age Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia (i) Coal (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii) n 46 Cochrane, John (i) Cocks, Richard (i) Coffee (i), (ii
The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning
by James E. Lovelock · 1 Jan 2009 · 239pp · 68,598 words
suggest that climate modellers ignore the importance of the contribution of life on Earth to climate change. Climate modellers at the Hadley Centre and the University of East Anglia in the UK, at the National Centre for Atmospheric Research and other labs in the USA, and at Potsdam in Germany have all made or
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the substantial contributions of Peter Cox, Chris Jones and Richard Betts of the Hadley Centre, of Tim Lenton, Andrew Watson and Peter Liss of the University of East Anglia, and of John Schellnhuber, Wernher Von Bloh and Stefan Rahmstorf of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. But I think they would all agree
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was not needed for self‐regulation and that geochemistry could do it alone. At the time Andrew Watson, now a professor of biogeochemistry at the University of East Anglia, was working with me as a postgraduate student and it occurred to us that in real life rocks always have lichen and other organisms on
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referred to as the CLAW hypothesis. Since then hundreds if not thousands of papers have been published on researches it stimulated. Professor Liss of the University of East Anglia and I published a paper in 2007 in Environmental Chemistry summarizing the progress of the CLAW hypothesis, and concluded that the mechanism proposed was observable
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21, 74, 156, 160 Turing, Alan 13 United Kingdom 2030 scenario 60–62 effect of global heating 11, 20 ‘lifeboat’ world 11–12, 22, 56 University of East Anglia 42 uranium 70 urban living 87–9 urbanization 3, 9–10, 142 USA attitude to Earth 13–15 perception of global warming 14 Venus, atmosphere
I, Partridge: We Need to Talk About Alan
by Steve Coogan · 1 Sep 2011
like to point out that the hospital is not entirely blameless itself. In 2001 it moved to a new site around the corner from the University of East Anglia. The studios from where I used to broadcast my show were reduced to rubble. And I think most reasonable people would agree that by allowing
Rule Britannia: Brexit and the End of Empire
by Danny Dorling and Sally Tomlinson · 15 Jan 2019 · 502pp · 128,126 words
. One theory that hit the headlines suggested that fat people were responsible. Peter Ormosi, an Associate Professor of Competition Economics at the Norwich Business School (University of East Anglia), posted a blog on the London School of Economics website at the very end of June 2016 entitled: ‘The weight of Brexit: Leave vote is
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regarded as excessively polite. However, as Secretary of State for Education from 2010, he was described in 2013 by Ralph Manning, lecturer in primary education, University of East Anglia, as having a ‘blinkered, almost messianic, self-belief, which appears to have continually ignored the expertise and wisdom of teachers, head-teachers, advisers and academics
Chaos Kings: How Wall Street Traders Make Billions in the New Age of Crisis
by Scott Patterson · 5 Jun 2023 · 289pp · 95,046 words
, there wasn’t a place for private planes in the world anymore. They all needed scrapping. Hoping against hope, Read, a philosophy don at the University of East Anglia, had made the journey to Davos with what he knew to be a quixotic plan. If he could convince just a few billionaires to dedicate
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logging (part of the so-called Timber Wars of the 1990s). Back in the UK by the mid-1990s, Read landed a job in the University of East Anglia’s philosophy department. Norwich, the district where the school is located on the eastern coast of England, was becoming an environmentalist hotspot. In 2004, Read
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cliff. It was also when he first came across the works of Nassim Taleb. In September 2012, Read invited a group of speakers to a University of East Anglia lecture series about philosophy and the Global Financial Crisis. Among the speakers he invited was Taleb, who gave a talk titled “Opacity, Asymmetries and Ethics
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