What looks like a work of Belgian modernism in Leicester. It's not a building I remember ever seeing.
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The façade of Wigston Framework Knitting Museum looks like, er, it's been knitted. Different rows and different patterns of red brick. Robert Venturi & Denise Scott Brown would have admired the synthesis between purpose and appearance. It is most definitely a 'duck'.
Thanks to Ryan Hampton & Elena Russo for organising the excellent SPATIAL HISTORY WORKSHOP: SPACES & IDENTITY & to each PhD candidate for their equally insightful & thought-provoking contribution @ Oxford University's Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities.
Finally, I made it to Kettle's Yard. A beautiful house in Cambridge conceived and curated by Jim Ede. These stairs, bookcase that forms the back of a day bed & sloping walls makes a charming space to spend a while, especially as it's next to the winter-garden.
Above the door of the V&A Is written, "The excellence of every art must consist in the complete accomplishment of its purpose."
Thrilled to finally hold my first book about British artists drawings of Seville. Thank you to everyone at Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica @europahispanica, ARTES @artesorguk, and Instituto Ceán Bermúdez for transforming my PhD thesis into this marvellous volume. #artists, #Seville, #firstbook,
Astounding, and beautifully restored, 15th century wall paintings at the Hermita de San Mamés, Aroche, Huelva, depict San Cristóbal, and in another The Last Supper... the shrine being built over the floor of the basilica of the Roman city of Arucci Turóbriga is an additional curiosity.
An icon of modernism, Alison and Peter Smithson's Upper Lawn 'Solar Pavilion' (1959-1962) Smaller than perhaps it appeared in older photos, and the arrangement of spaces with indefinite purposes would allow us to live in it as we'd choose to. The detailing seems simple now, but carefully considered and robust. https://themodernhouse.com/sales-list/upper-lawn Does it prefigure Michael and Patty Hopkins' 'Hopkins House' (1974) or is there a missing link?
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