Architect: Sergison Bates

Alternative Histories: Studio Thys Vermeulen on Sergison Bates

Alternative Histories: Studio Thys Vermeulen on Sergison Bates

Folly  The drawing we received was a pencil drawing showing a vertical elevation of Sergison Bates’s Tower House in Nutley. This proposal for a vertical country house, as explained by the architects, refers to the memory of an old water tower that stood on the same spot. Unlike the lightness… Read More

Alternative Histories: Stephen Bates on Henry Thomas Cadbury-Brown

Alternative Histories: Stephen Bates on Henry Thomas Cadbury-Brown

Reading Jim Cadbury-Brown’s transcript of ‘Ideas of Disorder’ delivered at the Architectural Association in 1959, it is clear just how far he had moved from his functionalist modern movement origins towards a more expressive and instinctive idea of what architecture could be and mean. The drawing of a first scheme… Read More

Alternative Histories: Jonathan Sergison on Carlos Diniz

Alternative Histories: Jonathan Sergison on Carlos Diniz

Carlos Diniz’s drawing for Hillrise Apartments represents of another architect’s work. Who this may have been remains unclear. Interpreting the work of others is a common aspect of developing architectural ideas; our many collaborators add to projects through their drawings and models, constantly adjusting arrangements and proportions. On other occasions,… Read More