ABSTRACT
Colin St John Wilson suggests that the building is conceived as a 'litde city', both sensitively and strategically related to its environs and rooted in the practice and procedures of the law, as indeed the British Library was rooted in the affinities and nature of a library. Amid the vast task of producing working drawings for the British Library, Wilson wrote articles that sought to challenge the 'zone of silence' that had obscured these significant trends in early Modernism, trends motivated to seek 'forms-of-life rather than technology or stylistics'. In The Architecture of the British Library at St Pancras, Richard Roger Stonehouse thus seeks to explain the architectural task that faced Wilson and his colleagues when, after the many iterations of the Bloomsbury scheme, the decision was made to break the link between the British Library and the British Museum.
