Lasdun

British  

/ ˈlæzdən /

noun

1. Sir Denys. 1914–2001, British architect. He is best known for the University of East Anglia (1968) and the National Theatre in London (1976)

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Example Sentences

“It’s a rare novel that leaves you reeling simultaneously with admiration, exhaustion, amazement at its author’s reach and skill, and desolation at the world it spreads out before you,” James Lasdun writes in his review.

From New York Times • Apr. 15, 2022

But an objective truth does exist here, and, finally, Lasdun reveals it.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 30, 2019

The narrator, like Lasdun, is a writer and professor from a bourgeois-bohemian English family who is now living in upstate New York.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 30, 2019

Yet another twist in the Metropolitan Cathedral’s tale is that one of the designs in the 1950s competition was by brutalist architect Denys Lasdun, of London’s National Theatre fame.

From The Guardian • Jul. 4, 2017

“This is Don DeLillo’s Book of the Dead,” wrote James Lasdun, in the Guardian, of a book that pits a visionary billionaire and his consorts against the problem of mortality.

From The Guardian • Mar. 10, 2017