Tag: agriculture
Shatwell Farm: Appendages
08.04.2024
Shatwell Farm: Appendages08.04.2024
This text is the third in a series of studies of Shatwell Farm made by Emily Priest while staying on site in September last year. We regularly speak of reusing and refurbishing at the scale of a building but talk less about small gestures of fixing and repair. As secondary or even… Read More
Shatwell Farm: Sheds and Silos
11.03.2024
Shatwell Farm: Sheds and Silos11.03.2024
This text is the second in a series of studies of Shatwell Farm made by Emily Priest while staying on site in September last year. Shatwell sits on dusty yellow Bridport sand encircled by limestone. Most of the farm’s ground is flat, except for its western edge, which creeps up… Read More
François Cointeraux: the Architect of the ‘Agricultural Proletariat’
05.10.2023
François Cointeraux: the Architect of the ‘Agricultural Proletariat’05.10.2023
François Cointeraux was born in Lyon in 1740 and was introduced to agriculture and construction at an early age through his family’s business ventures. When his uncle designated him the ‘universal heir’ of his company, Cointeraux inherited several buildings in Lyon and around 24 houses in the area. His marriage… Read More
Building as Drawing: The Cowshed (2021) at Shatwell Farm
07.07.2023
Building as Drawing: The Cowshed (2021) at Shatwell Farm07.07.2023
This film is part of series of posts of selected papers from the study symposium at Shatwell Farm, hosted by Drawing Matter and convened by KU Leuven and TU Delft on 27 and 28 April 2023. More about the symposium, and other films and written papers, can be found here.… Read More
Clancy Moore: Less is more
24.05.2022
Clancy Moore: Less is more24.05.2022
This linked text is part of an ongoing series that records the building projects undertaken at Shatwell Farm. For more on the Shatwell Project, click here.
Stephen Taylor: Haybarn
14.06.2021
Stephen Taylor: Haybarn14.06.2021
‘What looks like a fairly simple building from a distance becomes more and more sophisticated the closer one looks. The gentle slope to the trabeated front elevation subtly reveals itself, for example, cleverly disguised by the character of the jagged brick columns built out of snapped headers and filled with… Read More
Superstudio & Piranesi: Zeno is Immortal
24.05.2021
Superstudio & Piranesi: Zeno is Immortal24.05.2021
It’s 1777 in the Italian region of Salerno, a man is resting on a massive Doric column, watching his two cows from the ruin of a temple where the weeds grow. This building was, a long time ago, considered as the house of Juno, goddess of fertility and the vital… Read More
Charlotte Skene Catling: The Dairy House
11.02.2021
Charlotte Skene Catling: The Dairy House11.02.2021
This project involved the enlargement of a nineteenth-century masonry dairy house built by the owner’s great grandfather for the estate’s cheesemaker. The addition fills a narrow space dug into the hill behind the existing house providing additional bedrooms, bathrooms, and more generous circulation spaces. The building sits in an 850-acre… Read More
Soane’s Temple Stye
16.12.2020
Soane’s Temple Stye16.12.2020
A temple for pigs? for swine? for hogs? Not a temple to worship them in, nor a temple for them to be sacrificed in. A temple for them to live in. These are not the pigs which invented their own form of latin, or those powerful Orwellian pigs, but normal… Read More
Scanning Shatwell
30.04.2020
Scanning Shatwell30.04.2020
Every image you see on your screen is known as a raster image. Every image is made up of millions of squares of colour, or pixels. Each file has a particular size, height and width, and within that frame, each pixel has a particular size, colour, intensity and location in… Read More
Origins in Translation
20.01.2020
Origins in Translation20.01.2020
Broken bits of ancient architecture piled up in the foreground of a printed page is a topos in the canon of architectural publications. An early example takes place in the frontispiece of Sebastiano Serlio’s book on antiquities. Produced for the first edition of the third book, written in Italian and published in… Read More
Behind the Lines 5
10.05.2018
Behind the Lines 510.05.2018
Boughton MonchelseaMaidstone September 26, 1828 My lord, Please be so good as to find designs for the lodge that you commissioned, a habitation for your woodman, John Platt. I earnestly hope that it will be the ornament that you desired for your park improvements. I also enclose the books that… Read More
Cedric Price: FIR Project
12.10.2017
Cedric Price: FIR Project12.10.2017
Tim Abrahams observed in his AR article, Shatwell Farm: Reshaping the Rural: ‘Looking into the background of the Shatwell project it is evident that one of Hobhouse’s most important relationships was with the late Cedric Price who, among other things, helped him find the intellectual and architectural grounding to imagine a… Read More
Stephen Taylor: Urban Rural
12.10.2017
Stephen Taylor: Urban Rural12.10.2017
The existing enclave of Shatwell Farm has seen a slow decline in its agricultural industry over recent decades, rendering many of its buildings derelict and redundant. The project is seen as part of a process to revitalise the farmstead at Shatwell. Whilst dairy farming is expected to continue and its… Read More
Shatwell Farm: Covering Over, Bagging Up, Tying Down
01.07.2024
Shatwell Farm: Covering Over, Bagging Up, Tying Down01.07.2024
– Emily Priest
This text is the fourth in a series of studies of Shatwell Farm made by Emily Priest while staying on site in September 2023. Tarpaulin has its origins in 17th-century maritime communities. Sailors, who were nicknamed ‘tarpaulins’, used to sleep on decks under hard-wearing fabrics which were impregnated with tar- as a… Read More
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