Summer School 2024: Student Sponsorship
21 February 2022
Summer School 2024: Student Sponsorship21 February 2022
The annual Architecture Summer School will see its eighth iteration in 2024, based for the first time in London. Initiated by Robert Bargery of the Royal Fine Art Commission Trust…
68½ degrees, Sverre Fehn and the Nordic Pavilion: Review & Excerpt
26 May 2021
68½ degrees, Sverre Fehn and the Nordic Pavilion: Review & Excerpt26 May 2021
…competition brief circulated for comments in the architectural associations of Norway, Finland, and Iceland, the Swedish Biennale Committee asked the Venetian lawyer Mario Vianello-Chiodo, who was fluent in French and…
‘Then There Was War’: John Hejduk’s Silent Witnesses as Nuclear Criticism
19 October 2022
‘Then There Was War’: John Hejduk’s Silent Witnesses as Nuclear Criticism19 October 2022
…caught were immobilised but could be released when touched by a free child. His greatest pleasure was found, he said, not in catching but in this act of freeing that…
James Stirling, and the Industrialization of Architecture?
26 April 2024
James Stirling, and the Industrialization of Architecture?26 April 2024
…that appears as complex as possible despite minimal efforts, for example an uncoordinated exposed ceiling to keep construction costs low while justifying to amateur clients that the complicated works are…
Comins x Shatwell Tea House
25 August 2023
Comins x Shatwell Tea House25 August 2023
– Various
…of our wonderful team).’ Kendra and Niall positioning the test panel Tea House. Photo by Michelle Comins. The Comins Family Michelle Comins is the co-founder of Comins Tea House and,…
Aldo Rossi
30 September 2017
Aldo Rossi30 September 2017
…did the pencil transfer and then he would come by every day and we would do tests – fare una testa, fare una testa – so it was constant. Colour location wasn’t…
Displaced persons
3 October 2012
Displaced persons3 October 2012
– Niall Hobhouse and Nicholas Olsberg
…human figures, one a swooning lover, mock the lounging postures of their sculpted companions. There is even more — including some mockery of the architect’s own pretension — in the…
The ‘indispensable ingredients of sublimity’: Smirke and Papworth’s Designs for the Wellington Testimonial
20 November 2023
The ‘indispensable ingredients of sublimity’: Smirke and Papworth’s Designs for the Wellington Testimonial20 November 2023
…Committee’. Could this be the drawing now in the IAA? Of course, any hopes Papworth ever had of winning the commission were long gone. Construction of Smirke’s Wellington Testimonial had…
Syon House and the Afterlife of Architectural Drawing
22 April 2022
Syon House and the Afterlife of Architectural Drawing22 April 2022
…composite drawing of the Great Hall at Syon House dating from 1761 (fig.01). [3] To one side are established the facts of its commission, ‘Sion House, in Middlesex’, being ‘one…
Architectural models and the oriental ideal of the Alhambra
20 May 2024
Architectural models and the oriental ideal of the Alhambra20 May 2024
Rafael Contreras (1824–1890), model of the Comares Throne Hall, c.1865. Plaster, marble, hand-coloured paper, velvet, in wooden frame, 675 × 430 × 100 mm. DMC 3708. The Alhambra architectural models…
Peter Wilson and Mark Dorrian in conversation – Part 2
22 July 2024
Peter Wilson and Mark Dorrian in conversation – Part 222 July 2024
– Mark Dorrian and Peter Wilson
…there are totally polarised. The so-called democrats are actually the ex-communists. When communism collapsed they just changed their name, communist to democrat. The socialists, our clients, are actually social democrats,…
The Beaux-Arts Tradition
29 April 2021
The Beaux-Arts Tradition29 April 2021
– Basile Baudez and Maureen Cassidy-Geiger
…Competition composite drawing for a state bedroom: elevations, ceiling and flooring plans, profiles, late 19th century (May Collection, 1987.31; cat. 9.29). Fig. 23: Unknown (French), Godeboeuf competition drawing for an…
education plan section elevation competition