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The Layman's Guide to Classical Architecture

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With intricate and lively sketches, he explains the classical orders of architecture that were created by Vitruvius around 100 AD. The book contains a large number of Terry’s drawings and sketches from travels, as well as linocuts. Also included are his drawings of such quintessential examples of the use of classical orders as St.

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Competition: win Universal Design Studio's new book

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The book includes photography of finished buildings and interiors alongside process and archival imagery such as sketches, renders, references, detail shots and drawings. To find out more about the studio, visit its recently redesigned website. 

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Bernardo Rodrigues Architects creates inverted-pyramid chapel in Portugal

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The Chapel of Eternal Light was one of Bernardo Rodrigues Architects' first commissions after the studio was established in 2001. The next day talking with first collaborators Natacha and James and sketching, we just looked at each other, no need for the box, let's extrude the inverted pyramid," Rodrigues reflected.

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"If you have a style you can do anything you want" says Jaime Hayon

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From sketches and paintings to furniture and accessories, but also unique pieces, interior design and installations, it is hard to imagine everything in this exhibition comes from one designer/artist." The show includes cactus-inspired totems first shown by David Gill Galleries Hayon set up his studio in 2001.

Art 110
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Serpentine Pavilion 2023, London, UK

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A new soundscape for the Pavilion Dawn chorus has been created by artist and composer Tarek Atoui, based on Lina Ghotmeh’s sketches, architectural materials and Atoui’s ongoing research on classical and rural Arab music. Photo: Iwan Baan, Courtesy: Serpentine.

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R for Repair London exhibition features "sympathetic" repairs to sentimental objects

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Suggett Stephens discovered that the chest contained previously unseen sketches and watercolour paintings by her grandmother, who wanted to be an artist but never achieved her dream. In response, the multidisciplinary studio took visual cues from Stanley Kubrick's film 2001: A Space Odyssey, which Andrew Birkin worked on early in his career.

Technique 104
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Alison & Peter Smithson: Hexenhaus

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Started in 1986 and completed in 2001, and located in a dense forest in Hessen, the renovation that the Smithsons undertook constituted an example of what they called “law of the conglomerate.” Step by step, the house was expanded and opened to admit the light as well the trees, which became part of the interior.

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