Archive for 2012 March
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Architectural news from the archive of the Periodicals Collection: March 2012
Discover the history of architecture through the RIBA’s collection of 2,000 periodical titles. This month the British Architectural Library takes a potted look at the architecture of railway stations 150 and 100 years ago
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“My phone is smart, so I don’t have to be”
Last week US Energy Secretary Steven Chu launched “Apps for Energy”, a competition to attract the web’s brightest innovators to a policy arena where they are desperately needed: energy saving. It is no secret that
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Happy birthday Mies!
“It is hopeless to try and use the forms of the past in our architecture….Again and again we see talented architects who fall short because their work is not in tune with their age.” ¹ Mies
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Online workshop 1: ‘Design in Process’ – How architects communicate ideas
The items in the collections of the RIBA are not static, when carefully chosen they are able to provoke debate and can be used to analyse how architecture is created and experienced. The content
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Closer Look talk: Caribbean Homes by Ray Nathaniels
The work of Ray James Holman Nathaniels (1920 – 2005) was yesterday given well-deserved attention in a talk by RIBA curator Kurt Helfrich. Through the architect’s original drawings and documents held by the RIBA, the
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Closer Look talk: Caribbean Homes by Ray Nathaniels
“He created many eye-catching buildings not only of great beauty but also of great practicality…They will outlast us all and give pleasure to their owners as yet unborn. “ (RIBA Journal, March 2007, p.86) Today
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High Society: Stimulating debate
Yesterday, the images on display in the RIBA’s High Society exhibition led to discussions and recollections during a visit by the St Marylebone Society. The society – with a keen interest in local history and
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Nicholas Hawksmoor: Architect of the Imagination
“It is to the buildings we must always return. They must speak for themselves. They will repel us or fascinate us, but we cannot escape from their strange haunting power.” (Downes, 1979, p.233) Despite long periods
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The View Down!
A tutor in my first year once said that most architects suffer from a sore neck as, unlike most people, we constantly look up at the buildings around us. Through my architectural education this
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Visiting Venice
On the plane journey to Venice I became captivated by the book Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino and began to construct Venice in my mind using his descriptive words. I envisioned being transported back
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