Monthly Archives: February 2012

Research Studentship

  Pugin: the Search for the True Gothic 2012 marks the two-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, one of the most important architects of the nineteenth century. His approach to the interpretation and creation of a … Continue reading

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BIM ’69, The Integrated Team

This is the cover of the June 1969 issue of BDP Preston in-house magazine ‘Contact’. BDP was founded in Preston and pioneered a team-based, democratic approach to building design in the era of the mandatory fee scale. In this illustration … Continue reading

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Maisons Jaoul

seier+seier’s photograph of Le Corbusier’s Maisons Jaoul. Click here for picture & discussion.

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Zumthor’s extinguisher

Fire extinguisher, Diocesan Museum, Cologne. More

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Keeping his head

Louis Hellman, cartoonist, at Scarpa’s Canova Plaster Cast Gallery, Possagno. Circa 1990.

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Angel of Death

Woodland Chapel, Stockholm. See also…

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Model Scale

The Great Model of Lutyens’ project for Liverpool RC Cathedral.

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