Birmingham
I have been on a brisk walking tour of central Birmingham, starting at the Curzon Street booking hall of 1838 by Philip Hardwick, a very early piece of railway architecture for the London & Birmingham Railway:- The Millennium Point multi-story car park by Birmingham City Council Urban Design (2012):- The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire by Feilden…
Drawn into your Presence
My friend, Jim Grover, has organised a remarkable exhibition in a 1950s church, St. James, Park Hill, in Clapham. It pairs nineteenth-century steel engravings with his own photographs of related subjects, which makes one look at both his photographs and the steel engravings with a different order of interest. The engravings are selected from the…
Sir Roy Strong CH (5)
A very nice blog on the Warburg’s website about Roy Strong’s time there as a postgraduate student (although it’s worth remembering that for most of his time, the Warburg was still in South Kensington, only moving to Bloomsbury in 1958). I’ve read the relevant chapter in his autobiography before, but it somehow reads differently as…
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