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Will (William) Allen Alsop, OBE RA (born 12 December 1947, in Northampton, England) is a British architect based in London. He is responsible for several distinctive and controversial modernist buildings which are usually distinguished by their use of bright colours and unusual ''avant-garde'' forms. In 2000, Alsop won the Stirling Prize, the most prestigious architecture award in the United Kingdom, for the Peckham Library in the south-east of London. ==Biography== Alsop always wanted to be an architect, even before he really knew what architects did; when he was six years old, he designed a house for his mother to live in – its most striking specification was that it had to be built in New Zealand. When he was 16 his father, an accountant, died, and being bored with school he left to work for an architect, doing his A-levels at evening classes. He was greatly influenced by his drawing tutor, Henry Bird while at foundation course at Northampton Art School.〔 He recalled how he was taught to draw by him. He gave me a brick, told me to draw it and promptly left the room. I proceeded to draw it with all its shadows. On his return he went into a rage and chastised me for destroying the vision with shading, shouting: 'What is wrong with a simple line?' He insisted that I redo the drawing with line only so that I could begin to see the brick and its proportions. I drew that brick for two three hour sessions per week, line only, for three months. Eventually, he admitted that I had mastered the brick and I was allowed to progress onto the tin can.〔Alsop W. (28 June 2001). Drawing on the experiences of life help create better work. Architects' Journal〕 Alsop then studied at the Architectural Association School of Architecture where at 23 he entered the competition to design the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and came second to the eventual winners, Richard Rogers & Renzo Piano.〔 He worked briefly for Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew, a couple who had been instrumental in introducing modernism to Britain in the 1930s, then joined Cedric Price for four years.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/academicians/architects/will-alsop-ra,130,AR.html )〕 After a short period with Roderick Ham, in 1981 Alsop set up a practice, Alsop & Lyall, with his classmate John Lyall in Hammersmith. Jan Störmer later joined the practice and a decade later, in 1991, the practice was renamed Alsop & Störmer after Lyall's departure.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.open2.net/modernity/4_11.htm )〕 Alsop's first real commission was a swimming pool for Sheringham in Norfolk in 1984, followed by a visitor centre for Cardiff Bay. Thereafter he worked on a number of projects in Germany, including the Hamburg Ferry Terminal, before beating Norman Foster in the competition to design the Hôtel du Département des Bouches-du-Rhône (seat of the regional government) in Marseille, France (the building has been nicknamed ''Le Grand Bleu'' – "The Big Blue" – and "The Whale" by the locals), in 1994.〔 Alsop and Störmer divided into separate practices in 2000, Alsop forming Alsop Architects. Alsop admits to never being very good at handling finances, and his practice went through several difficult periods, including the cancellation in June 2004 of plans to build a "Fourth Grace" to be built on Liverpool's Pier Head waterfront 〔Since 2001–2002, three historical buildings at the Pier Head in Liverpool have been known as the "Three Graces": they are the Royal Liver Building (1908–1911) by Walter Aubrey Thomas, the Cunard Building (1914–1916) by Willinck & Thicknesse with Arthur J. Davis, and the Port of Liverpool Building (1903–1907) by Briggs & Wolstenholme with Hobbs & Thornely.〕 – the so-called "Cloud Building" – officially because of rising costs and unrealistic design.〔See 〕 In early 2006, Alsop sold his practice to a design conglomerate called the SMC Group to concentrate on architecture. After leaving ARCHIAL (formerly Alsop Architects, then SMC Alsop), he joined RMJM's London Headquarters as International Principal on 1 October 2009. The office's name was "Will Alsop at RMJM". Alsop's current practice is called (aLL Design ) and has practices in London and Chongqing. Alsop's London office is located in Battersea in a building which was once a local dairy. The building complex is now called Testbed and is both a temporary arts venue and home to a collection of creative companies and designers including Vivienne Westwood. Testbed has a bar at its centre called the Doodle Bar that allows patrons to draw all over its walls. Alsop was a tutor of sculpture at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London for several years, and has held many other academic posts, among others at the Vienna University of Technology, Universities of London and Hannover, and actively promotes the artistic contribution to built environments. In 2013, Alsop became Professor of Architecture at the University for the Creative Arts's Canterbury School of Architecture.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.ucreative.ac.uk/news/2013/june/will-alsop-appointed#.VfvkjbR8O-I )〕 Alsop has been made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE), and was elected to the Royal Academy on 18 May 2000.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Will Alsop」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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