Architect: Charles Robert Cockerell
Cartographies of the Imagination
4 June 2021
Cartographies of the Imagination4 June 2021
By Kirsty Badenoch and Sayan Skandarajah
Drawing place is illusory. Maps may begin as transcriptions of a worldly order – a semblance of truth and objectivity – but in doing so, become acts of world-building that both belong to and are entirely removed from their starting point. In 2019, we first visited Shatwell Farm in the… Read More
Drawings in Conversation
1 September 2017
Drawings in Conversation1 September 2017
C. R. Cockerell, Joseph Gwilt and the Royal Exchange Competition Owing to a faulty gas lamp, on the 10thJanuary 1838 the Royal Exchange in the City of London was destroyed by fire. The loss of the building was seen to be potentially catastrophic for trade in the City and moves… Read More
Architecture and Geology
7 February 2017
Architecture and Geology7 February 2017
By William Mann
What is the relation between the forces that shape buildings and those that shape the earth’s surface? How are the imaginative powers of architects heightened by their knowledge of geological processes? How is their handling of all the cultural, economic and material constraints on their practice enriched by exposure to… Read More
In the Archive: Edouard Cabay
16 February 2020
In the Archive: Edouard Cabay16 February 2020
By Edouard Cabay
Fullscreen version (use your mouse or your finger to interract with Edourad’s selection of drawings on the digital planchest) Hello Niall! I have had many thoughts, and I wanted to try to put a few down here. But there is one that is more pressurizing than the others: are there… Read More
in the archive (project)