The Architecture of Ralph Erskine
Authors: Ralph Erskine,
Peter Collymore
John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 1854903845
Peter Erskine, who was born in London in 1914 and emigrated to Sweden in 1939, belongs to the major humanists of Modernism architects. After the Second World War, the confirmed pacifist Erskine, together with likeminded persons in ‘Team Ten’, made the attempt to render a more human face to functionalism, which, in his eyes, had become much too sterile.
Although Erskine had left his mark in his home country of England with single projects such as the famous ‘Byker Wall’, he lived and worked in Sweden until his death in 2005. Peter Collymore’s book, first published in 1982 and then revised and updated in 1995is one of the first attempts to unite Erskine’s extensive life work in one book. time to find any other similar ‘inter-cultural’ survey of worldwide ecclesiastical architecture.