Architect: Roz Barr Architects
Alternative Histories: Roz Barr Architects on John Freeman
28 February 2019
Alternative Histories: Roz Barr Architects on John Freeman28 February 2019
John Freeman’s drawing for an arch at Fawley Court led to an intriguing insight: this study could have been part of the mausoleum or gothic folly he built on the grounds. Freeman was an amateur architect and a dabbler. The garden buildings and the mausoleum at Fawley Court show influences… Read More
Roz Barr Architects: The Maquette
7 April 2017
Roz Barr Architects: The Maquette7 April 2017
– Roz Barr
The act of making a physical artefact involves a to-and-fro engagement with an idea, in which decisions are ‘made’ and re-thought, and then un-made before the idea is realised. This roundabout but essential process of adaption is carried out, in the work of my architectural practice, through the use of… Read More
Six Architects on their Dream Desks
17 December 2019
Six Architects on their Dream Desks17 December 2019
– Roz Barr, Biba Dow, Elizabeth Hatz, Emma Letizia Jones, Stephanie Macdonald and Helen Thomas
Drawing Matter recently acquired this design for a table, below. Although the work’s last sale in 1972 attributed the drawing to Thomas Chippendale, we are (perhaps wishfully) hoping that it might be an architect’s own design for desk. The sheet set off a flurry of chatter about the platonic spaces… Read More
DMC elevation projection (axonometric isometric) detail furniture & object design presentation publication