Tag archive for Books and periodicals
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The ‘mania’ for railways, May 1863
A record of over one and a half centuries of architectural history, the RIBA’s Periodicals Collection reveals news from 150 years ago this month about new buildings from across the the British Isles… 150 years ago in
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George Gilbert Scott wins competition to design the Albert Memorial, April 1863
A record of over one and a half centuries of architectural history, the RIBA’s Periodicals Collection holds news from 150 years ago this month about the winner of the competition to build the Albert Memorial… ‘There can,
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Explore and Draw: Park Life
Drawing can happen anywhere and inspiration for creativity is always close by, especially in the city. Last weekend the RIBA held its first Draw and Explore workshop, open to all members of the public,
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1,000 years of architecture in 2,000 church guides
It would take many visits and perhaps a lifetime to be able to assemble a similar collection of 2,000 church guides that were donated by the Heraldry Society (see our previous post) to the
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A gift from Santiago Calatrava
After the recent collaboration between the BBC and RIBA that brought the talk Dream Builders: Santiago Calatrava to the RIBA’s headquarters, it is with gratitude that the RIBA British Architectural Library now has a
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Edwin Lutyens in 1913
“A foreign critic said not long ago that the domestic architecture of Great Britain to-day is not only a finer thing than that of any other country, but better than any period of history.” Houses
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New books for 2013
Image: centre, then clockwise from top left The Globalisation of Modern Architecture – Robert Adam Louis Kahn: The Power of Architecture – Mateo Kries , Jochen Eisenbrand and Stanislaus von Moos (editors) Survey of London, volume 48, Woolwich
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News from the archive of the Periodicals Collection: Architecture at the end of 1912
Discover the history of architecture through the RIBA’s collection of 2,000 periodical titles. Today, the British Architectural Library looks at what happened in architecture in 1912 and makes comparisons with the events of 2012: Richard Norman Shaw (7 May
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RIBApix image of the month: Palazzo Tursi, Genoa
A new image every month celebrating architecture, chosen from RIBApix, where you will discover over 70,000 images on architecture, landscape and the decorative arts. History can obscure the origins of a work, and for a while
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News from the archive of the Periodicals Collection: A new façade for Buckingham Palace, November 1912
Discover the history of architecture through the RIBA’s collection of 2,000 periodical titles. Today, the British Architectural Library looks at the plan in 1912 to give Buckingham Palace a new public face: After Paris had been transformed by Haussmann in the
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