Archive for 2011 March
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Building an Adolf Loos model in six weeks – Week 2 (pt.2)
A 6-week project to create a model of Adolf Loos’s Doppelhaus using research from the RIBA Library, part of the Adolf Loos Season. The progress so far… Making trees Above are photographs of the trees being
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Adolf Loos: Re-imagining the American Bar
Talk The Adolf Loos Season continued yesterday when students attended a fascinating talk by Mary Costello (University of Plymouth). The theme of reinterpretation was prominent during the talk, from the photomontage created for Loos in 1930
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Building an Adolf Loos model in six weeks – Week 2
I’ve taken up a 6-week challenge to create a model to celebrate the Adolf Loos Season at the RIBA, this is my progress so far… Above are images of a small sketch model with a
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Building an Adolf Loos model in six weeks – Week 1 (pt. 3)
I’ve taken up a 6-week challenge to create a model to celebrate the Adolf Loos Season at the RIBA, this is my progress so far… Researching beyond English A surprising part of my research to choose
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Building an Adolf Loos model in six weeks – Week 1 (pt. 2)
I’ve taken up a 6-week challenge to create a model to celebrate the Adolf Loos Season at the RIBA, this is my progress so far… Research The model I will be building will be entirely based
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Building an Adolf Loos model in six weeks – Week 1
My six-week Adolf Loos challenge I work for the RIBA British Architectural Library and this week I’ve taken up the challenge to create a scale model of one of Adolf Loos’s buildings in six weeks
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The RIBA Library collections grow by 2.4 metres and 75 kilograms (approx.)
Donation from the Heraldry Society Recently the RIBA became the new home of 2,500 church guides gathered from across the UK and continental Europe by the Heraldry Society. On behalf of the society, Dr Andrew
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How collections can speak for themselves
RIBA staff were present at the Museum Association’s Changing Platforms event held on March 15th at Royal College of Surgeons. The all-day event focused on how museums and collections could better engage their audiences through
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Framing Modernism – An invite
You are invited to the opening of the Framing Modernism exhibition at MAXXI, Rome, on 23 March 2011. At the opening will be staff from the RIBA Library Photographs Collection who curated the exhibition, the President of
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Framing Modernism – Preparations for a new exhibition at Maxxi
The new exhibition at MAXXI Great architecture does more than win awards, since opening last year MAXXI in Rome and has been a centre for the study and enjoyment of contemporary arts. Work from the RIBA
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