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'''Sir Denys Lasdun''' [[Order of the Companions of Honour|CH]] ([[8 September]] [[1914]]–[[11 January]] 2001) was an eminent [[England|English]] [[architect]] of the [[20th century]]. Probably his best known work is the [[Royal National Theatre]], on [[London]]'s [[South Bank]] of the River [[Thames]], which is a Grade II listed building and one of the most notable examples of [[Brutalism|Brutalist]] design in the [[United Kingdom]].

==Early Work==

Before and after [[World War II|Second World War]] service in the army, he worked for a while with [[Berthold Lubetkin]]'s [[Tecton]] practice becoming a partner. In this period he also completed one private house in [[Paddington]] in [[Le Corbusier]]'s style. After  the war Lasdun worked with Lindsey Drake on the [[Hallfield Estate]], which had been planned by Lubetkin and Tecton in a similar patterned, tightly planned idiom to his Spa Green and Priory Green Estates. His Hallfield School was the first clue to Lasdun's mature style, in its use of bare concrete and angularity, as well as its more human scale.

==University Buildings==

Elements of Lasdun's most famous style, which combined cubic towers, bare concrete and jutting foyers, which was compared by some to [[Frank Lloyd Wright]], can be found in his first educational buildings, the Fitzwilliam College in Cambridge and the Royal College of Physicians in Regent's Park, the latter of which compared favourably to the surrounding buildings by [[John Nash]]. More extensive was his design for the University of East Anglia. This consisted of a series of classrooms and laboratories connected by walkways, and glazed residential quarters shaped like [[ziggurats]]. It shares with [[Norwich Cathedral]] the distinction of being built on one of the most prominent sites in the county. Following this acclaimed design Lasdun designed two buildings for the [[University of London]], one for [[SOAS]] (1970) and another for the [[Institute of Education]] (1970-1976), which was particularly controversial in its insertion into the previous street plan of squares and terraces, which it tried to replicate in a more [[Brutalist]] manner. The expressed stair cases make references to [[Wells Coates]] and [[Louis Kahn]] and Lasdun's masterplanning created a new public square. The building is now listed Grade II*.

==Late Work==

The most famous and disputed of the architect's work is his [[Royal National Theatre]] on London's South Bank, which was compared by [[Prince Charles]] to a nuclear power station. It was popular with other traditionalists however, with [[John Betjeman]] writing Lasdun a letter in praise of its design. Lasdun (or his firm Lasdun, Softley and Partners) designed the neighbouring IBM headquarters ( finished 1985) as a continuity with the theatre. His European Investment Bank in Luxemburg was similar. The last work produced by the firm in London was an office block called Milton Gate near the [[Barbican Estate]], which in its use of green-tinted glazing represented a departure from his familiar bare concrete style.