Stories from Architecture - Behind the Lines at Drawing Matter

Zusatztext “[Lewis] has a talent for the human story – real or imagined – behind the drawing, whether from the perspective of the client, the architect, the illustrator, or those depicted or involved in some way.” — RIBA Journal Informationen zum Autor Philippa Lewis is a writer, photographer, and picture editor. She is the author of A Dictionary of Ornament (with Gillian Darley); Details: A Guide to House Design in Britain ; Everything You Can Do in the Garden without Actually Gardening ; Everyman's Castle ; and other books. Klappentext "Blending fiction with fact, this book takes drawings, models and prints as starting points for stories about the human side of architecture, as told both by its makers and the people it was made for"-- Zusammenfassung The imagined histories of twenty-five architectural drawings and models, told through reminiscences, stories, conversations, letters, and monologues. Even when an architectural drawing does not show any human figures, we can imagine many different characters just off the page: architects, artists, onlookers, clients, builders, developers, philanthropists—working, observing, admiring, arguing. In Stories from Architecture , Philippa Lewis captures some of these personalities through reminiscences, anecdotes, conversations, letters, and monologues that collectively offer the imagined histories of twenty-five architectural drawings.    Some of these untold stories are factual, like Frank Lloyd Wright’s correspondence with a Wisconsin librarian regarding her $5,000 dream home, or letters written by the English architect John Nash to his irascible aristocratic client. Others recount a fictional, if credible, scenario by placing these drawings—and with them their characters—into their immediate social context. For instance, the dilemmas facing a Regency couple who are considering a move to a suburban villa; a request from the office of Richard Neutra for an assistant to measure Josef von Sternberg’s Rolls-Royce so that the director’s beloved vehicle might fit into the garage being designed by his architect; a teenager dreaming of a life away from parental supervision by gazing at a gadget-filled bachelor pad in Playboy magazine; even a policeman recording the ground plans of the house of a murder scene.    The drawings, reproduced in color, are all sourced from the Drawing Matter collection in Somerset, UK, and are fascinating objects in themselves; but Lewis shifts our attention beyond the image to other possible histories that linger, invisible, beyond the page, and in the process animates not just a series of archival documents but the writing of architectural history.   Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword  Adrian Forty 9 1 Rex Savidge, Entrance to Commercial Building, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1957 15 2 Robert Bremmel Schnebbelie, View of the Piccadilly Entrance to Burlington Arcade, London, 1827 19 3 George Marshall, Perspective View of the Interior of St. Stephen’s Walbrook, London, Mid-eighteenth Century 25 4 Moos, Designs for Graveyard Memorials and Tombstones, 1811 29 5 Richard Bentley, Gothick Fireplace, Possibly for Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, Surrey, 1754 37 6 A. Tod, Mr. Tassie’s House, Leicester Square, London, 1806 41 7 Cassius Goldsmith, Design for a Gate Lodge, ca. 1827 45 8 Unattributed French Artist, House in Islamic Style, 1870s 51 9 Richard Neutra, Residence for  Josef von Sternberg, 1935 59 10 Peepshow of Marc Brunel’s Thames Tunnel, 1830s 63 11 Oliver Messel, Model of Bar for the Great Octagon, Bath Assembly Rooms, 1961 69 12 George Coke, Topographical View of the Wall and Trees of London Smallpox Hospital, Coldbath Fields, Clerkenwell, London, 1796 79 13 Frederick G. C. Weir, Proposed Plan for Artisans’ Dwellings, 1875 83 14 PC Harry Woodley, Plans of ??131 Cornwall Street, St. George’s...

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Adrian Forty, Forty Adrian, Philippa Lewis, Lewis Philippa
• Editore: The MIT Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 19.10.2021
• EAN: 9780262543026
• ISBN: 978-0-262-54302-6
• Pagine: 216
• Dimensioni: 155 mm x 230 mm x 15 mm
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Architettura; Architecture, ARCHITECTURE / General