Elain Harwood's new monograph for the RIBA traces the story of Chamberlin, Powell & Bon - the practice behind the Barbican's Lauderdale, Cromwell and Shakespeare towers - from its establishment in 1952, through to the seemingly endless rounds of negotiations and redesigns that came to characterise the Barbican job, some three decades in the making. Pictured here from the book is the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Barbican

从墙纸*办公室的全景可以看到三座巴比康塔-劳德代尔、克伦威尔和莎士比亚-的精巧的具体细节。在玻璃、钢和起重机的背景下，这些布鲁塔主义者已经坚持了几十年，缓慢但肯定地成为首都最受欢迎的当代地址之一。伊兰·哈伍德为RIBA撰写的新专著追溯了他们背后的实践故事-鲍威尔的钱伯林(Chamberlin)。

Lauderdale, Cromwell and Shakespeare, the three towers of Barbican by Chamberlin, Powell & Bon

A perspective from 1956, suggesting the intended vibrancy of Barbican, but with very different elevations from those realised later

The first Barbican scheme, from 1955, pyramidal block of flats to rear left

The Cooper Taber Seed Factory, Withan, C. 1957. An early example of work by Chamberlin, Powell & Bon

Churchill College Competition, persepctive by Gordon Cullen

Exhibition stand for the British Aluminium Company, 1949, by Brown and Chamberlin

Perspective by Ian Baker of Geoffry Powell's winning scheme

keywords:architecture, modern architecture, Barbican, RIBA

关键词：建筑，现代建筑，巴比康，RIBA