DRAWING AS A WAY OF SEEING - Richard Reid’s visual journey from the mid 1950’s to the present day
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Over the last 27 years there have been several booklets published on drawing, the two most important of which “Drawing The Line” (1995) which was a National Exhibition from the South Bank … only three architects were represented…
Most years my journeys began on the 9.30 am boat train from Victoria Station, my clothes, sketch books and paints, brushes and pens packed into one large rucksack to last me the first few months on my trips…
As a young architectural student, I’d bought into the idea Andrew Hill writes in his book Ruskinland and how Ruskin, in order to see the world almost always needed to draw it…
As a young architectural student, I’d bought into the idea Andrew Hill writes in his book Ruskinland and how Ruskin, in order to see the world almost always needed to draw it…
Sir Desmond Heap was responsible for co-ordinating the re-building of the bombed area of the City after the War which resulted in the “tabula rasa” or “clean state” planning of these years with the urbanism of Lord Holford…
I had a few long journeys to do – a trip through Turkey and then by boat to Cyprus and Israel in the summer of 1962 and then, in 1963 the long trip overland through Europe and Bulgaria and on to Afghanistan, Burma, Cambodia and Thailand…
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