Architect: Sergison Bates
Upper Lawn Pavilion: Strategy and Detail, Drawing / Feeling everything at once
20.10.2023
Upper Lawn Pavilion: Strategy and Detail, Drawing / Feeling everything at once20.10.2023
In this film Stephen Bates discusses a group of drawings by Alison and Peter Smithson for the Upper Lawn Pavilion, dating from the late 1950s when the Smithsons bought the site, and the 1970s when the architects proposed several alterations—only some of which were realised. Stephen Bates’ relationship with the… Read More
Alternative Histories: Studio Thys Vermeulen on Sergison Bates
09.03.2019
Alternative Histories: Studio Thys Vermeulen on Sergison Bates09.03.2019
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
22.02.2019
Alternative Histories: Stephen Bates on Henry Thomas Cadbury-Brown22.02.2019
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
12.01.2019
Alternative Histories: Jonathan Sergison on Carlos Diniz12.01.2019
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
