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Living with Architecture as Art - The Peter W. May Collection of Architectural Drawings, Models and Artefacts, 2 volumes (Coffret)

Edition en anglais

Maureen Cassidy-Geiger

Charles Hind

(Auteur)

,

Basile Baudez

(Auteur)

,

Matthew Wells

(Auteur)

  • Ad Ilissum

  • Paru le : 05/02/2021
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One of the largest private collections of architectural drawings in the world has been assembled over 30 years by investor and philanthropist Peter May. Comprising more than 600 sheets that have all been carefully preserved and handsomely framed, the drawings and related models and artefacts date from 1691 to the mid-zoth century. This publication will introduce amateurs and specialists alike to the largely unknown collection.
The book includes a catalogue and innovative texts by leading authorities that present the raison-d'être for the production and preservation of these sometimes neglected by-products of architectural training and practice that have been collected off-and-on through history by individuals and institutions. The architectural sheets acquired for the collection are principally 19th- or early zoth-century competition or certification drawings by design students.
Others are presentation drawings for public commissions, reconstruction studies or interior designs. The catalogue is arranged by category, to demonstrate May's inclination towards specific building types such as commercial or cultural institutions, train stations and spas, landmarks and monuments, private and royal residences, and cast-iron architecture. Also included is a category for landscape designs and garden architecture, reflecting May's experience as a gentleman farmer with a predilection for building.

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  • Date de parution : 05/02/2021
  • Editeur : Ad Ilissum
  • ISBN : 978-1-912168-19-4
  • EAN : 9781912168194
  • Format : Beau Livre
  • Présentation : Coffret
  • Nb. de pages : 600 pages
  • Poids : 8.2 Kg
  • Dimensions : 34,2 cm × 42,0 cm × 10,0 cm

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Biographie de Maureen Cassidy-Geiger

MAUREEN CASSIDY-GEIGER is a curator, scholar and educator with special expertise in European decorative arts, patterns of collecting and display, and the history of architecture, court culture, gardening, the arts of the table and travel. Curator of such groundbreaking exhibitions as Fragile Diplomacy : Meissen Porcelain for European Courts, ca. 1710-63 (BGC/YUP, 2007) and The Grand Cure (Die Grande Kur) : A Disabled Saxon Prince and his Tour of Italy, 1738-40 (Dresden State Museums, 2018), her most recent book on architecture was The Philip Johnson Glass House : An Architect in the Garden (New York, 2016).
CHARLES HIND is Chief Curator and H J Heinz Curator of Drawings at the Royal Institute of British Architects, London. He has published widely on architectural history from the 16th to the 20h centuries and is general editor of the RIBA 's forthcoming catalogue of drawings by Andrea Palladio in British Collections. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, Visiting Fellow at the Centro Palladio in Vicenza and a Trustee of both the Georgian Group and the Lutyens Trust.
BASILE BAUDEZ is Assistant Professor of 18th- and 19th-Century European Architectural History at Princeton University. His publications include A Civic Utopia. Architecture and the City in France, 1765-1837 (London, 2016) and Architecture et tradition académique au siècle des Lumières (Rennes, 2012). His next book, Inessential Colors. Architecture on Paper in Early-Modern Europe will be published in Fall 2021.
MATTHEW WELLS is Lecturer at the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture, ETH Zürich. His PhD thesis, which was awarded the Theodor-Fischer-Preis (2019) and commended in the RIBA President's Awards for Research (2017), explored the purpose and use of architectural models in the 19th and 20th centuries. He is currently working on a monograph based on the research, which provides a new understanding of how London was conceptualised, debated, and constructed through architectural models.

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