Architect: Charles Robert Cockerell

Charles Barry: Good and Bad Manners in Architecture
17 April 2020

Charles Barry: Good and Bad Manners in Architecture17 April 2020

By David Blissett

Architectural manners are […] known by a quality which money cannot buy, and which can le­nd distinction not only to the greatest building but to the smallest. T. A. Edwards, Good and Bad Manners in Architecture, 1924, Preface, vi. There is often an elegance in architectural simplicity that goes unrecognised… Read More

plan elevation presentation civic & municipal

Drawings in Conversation
1 September 2017

Drawings in Conversation1 September 2017

By Matthew Wells

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

section projection (axonometric isometric) presentation publication commerce interior

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

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