Title & Author:

Tabula Inscripta / [presented by] Bob Allies (Allies & Morrison).

Publication:

London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 1992.

Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (35 minutes)) : sound, color

Notes:
Bob Allies -- Project For Kiosk In British Museum Forecourt. The Forecourt Today -- Project For Kiosk In British Museum Forecourt. Sketch Of Kiosk -- Project For Kiosk In British Museum Forecourt. Engraving By Lepautre Of The Place Vendôme By Jules Hardouin-Mansart -- Project For Kiosk In British Museum Forecourt. Plan Of Kiosk -- Project For Kiosk In British Museum Forecourt. Proposed Plan Of Forecourt -- Project For Kiosk In British Museum Forecourt. Plan Of Elements In Forecourt -- Reconstructed Building For Furniture Manufacturer, London. Front Facade -- Reconstructed Building For Furniture Manufacturer, London. Plan -- Reconstructed Building For Furniture Manufacturer, London. Inner & Outer Facades -- Reconstructed Building For Furniture Manufacturer, London. Side Facade -- Reconstructed Building For Furniture Manufacturer, London. Drawing: The Orders Of Design -- Reconstructed Building For Furniture Manufacturer, London. Double-Height Space -- Building In Shad Thames, London. View From North -- Building In Shad Thames, London. Site Plan -- Building In Shad Thames, London. Model -- Building In Shad Thames, London. The Project Under Construction -- Building In Shad Thames, London. Completed Building -- Building In Shad Thames, London. Shopping Colonnade -- Terrace Houses In London, W1. Buildings Fronting The Street -- Terrace Houses In London, W1. Site Plan -- Terrace Houses In London, W1. Model; Elevation To Interior Of The Block -- Terrace Houses In London, W1. The New Elevation As Built -- Stadium Of Domitian, Rome. View.

Summary:

Bob Allies, Edinburgh trained and a Rome Scholar from 1983 - 1987, set up in partnership with Graham Morrison in London in 1984. Together they have produced distinguished, widely recognised architecture and have won a number of competitions in the UK. Allies speaks for both of them when he says that their approach is a Modernist one, which brings into the brief the aspect of context. For them architecture has to develop out of a "tabula inscripta" and not the "tabula rasa" of the 1960s. Their architecture responds to the ways existing places can be transformed to a set of new conditions. This is illustrated in the work they discuss in their talk.

Subject:

Architectural design Great Britain.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Design architectural Grande-Bretagne.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architectural design.
Architecture, Modern.
Great Britain.

Added entries:

Allies, Bob, narrator.