ABSTRACT
Colin St John Wilson's own unrealized project of 1956 for King's College was the first he carried out with Leslie Martin, and is a design he marks out as a turning point in his work - a first trial of those themes of wall, court and hanging garden that were to govern his subsequent work. Martin had also entrusted Wilson with the first-year course in architectural theory, allowing him the opportunity to begin to structure the torrent of ideas and impressions to which these Cambridge years exposed him. Examples of Wilson's first-year studio projects were published in a 1962 article about the Cambridge School: The curriculum in the first year covers the usual basic draughtsmanship and graphic exercises and includes perception studies, theory of colour, building science and construction, mechanics and the study of a selected period in history.
