Cedric Price: FIR Project
12 October 2017
Cedric Price: FIR Project12 October 2017
Cedric Price (1934–2003), design for shed structure as model framework, c.1959. Print, 260 × 230 mm. DMC 2207.2. Tim Abrahams observed in his AR article, Shatwell Farm: Reshaping the Rural: ‘Looking…
Alternative Histories: Bovenbouw Architectuur on James Gowan
1 February 2019
Alternative Histories: Bovenbouw Architectuur on James Gowan1 February 2019
Bovenbouw, James Gowan’s drawing in Sketchbook 10, 2018. Wood, cement, steel, brick, 235 × 235 × 590 mm. James Gowan (1923–2015), sketchbook 10, page 9, 1990. Pencil on paper, 148…
Stephen Taylor: Urban Rural
12 October 2017
Stephen Taylor: Urban Rural12 October 2017
Stephen Taylor, Cowshed at Shatwell Farm, 2012. The existing enclave of Shatwell Farm has seen a slow decline in its agricultural industry over recent decades, rendering many of its buildings…
Dating Siza: The Malagueira ‘Cupula’
23 July 2020
Dating Siza: The Malagueira ‘Cupula’23 July 2020
Álvaro Siza (1933), Malagueira, c.1977. Pencil on tracing paper, 417 × 587 mm. DMC 2111.02. The unbuilt half-dome (referred to by the architect as the ‘cupula’) at the Quinta da…
Alternative Histories: Bosshard, Tavor, van der Ploeg and Vihervaara on Bohdan Lachert
3 February 2019
Alternative Histories: Bosshard, Tavor, van der Ploeg and Vihervaara on Bohdan Lachert3 February 2019
Bosshard, Tavor, van der Ploeg and Vihervaara, Bohdan Lachert’s sketch of partial facade for a post office, 2018. Acetate, acrylic, 250 × 120 × 350 mm. Bohdan Lachert (1900–1987), facade…
Madelon Vriesendorp
4 November 2018
Madelon Vriesendorp4 November 2018
– Niall Hobhouse and Madelon Vriesdendorp
OMA (1975), Madelon Vriesendorp (1945–) and Rem Koolhaas (1944–), Welfare Palace Hotel, Sunken Medusa Raft, 1975–1976. Gouache and acrylic on paper, 780 × 1140 mm. DMC 3000.1. Niall Hobhouse: There…
Mies: The Double or Panoramic Structure of the Perspective
24 October 2016
Mies: The Double or Panoramic Structure of the Perspective24 October 2016
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886–1969), Courthouse study, c.1935. Pen and India ink on wove paper, laid on board, 215 × 298 mm. DMC 2052. What is compelling about the…
Battersea Redevelopment
22 January 2020
Battersea Redevelopment22 January 2020
In Bat-Hat, our project for Battersea Power Station, we have divested the existing building of all that froze the immediate site, leaving only that which is considered important – its…
From a little below and to the right
17 December 2019
From a little below and to the right17 December 2019
Edwin Lutyens (1869–1944), Elevation, perspective, section of moulding, 1915. Pencil and blue crayon on tracing, folded and overlaid. DMC 3197.8. There is a characteristic recurrence in Lutyens’ drawings of a…
Grandorge’s Pavilion
21 July 2019
Grandorge’s Pavilion21 July 2019
– David Grandorge
https://vimeo.com/282816711 The timber pavilion shown in the film is being transported to its third incarnation, and from inside another shed to its second locale in Shatwell farmyard, where it will…
exhibition Buildings Projects at Shatwell Farm