Money Matters: A Critical Look at Bank Architecture surveys the history and cultural significance of bank architecture, focusing on bank architecture as a building typology rather than in the context of a single architect or architectural firm. Challenging the standard notion that bank buildings are repetitive, dull and conservative, the exhibition reveals banks as(...)
Main galleries
14 November 1990 to 24 February 1991
Money Matters: A Critical Look at Bank Architecture
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Money Matters: A Critical Look at Bank Architecture surveys the history and cultural significance of bank architecture, focusing on bank architecture as a building typology rather than in the context of a single architect or architectural firm. Challenging the standard notion that bank buildings are repetitive, dull and conservative, the exhibition reveals banks as(...)
Main galleries
textual records
AP197.S1.SS4.026
2015-2016
Correspondence and drafts of the fifth edition of Modern architecture: a critical history
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2015-2016
The exhibition explores one of the most adventurous and influential moments in the history of architecture: the explosion of invention and ideas that followed the October Revolution in Russia. The Soviet avant-garde architects were productivist as much as aesthetic in their concerns; they saw architecture and the arts as one, and they were committed to bringing design(...)
Main galleries
19 June 1991 to 8 September 1991
Architectural Drawings of the Russian Avant-Garde, 1917-1935
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The exhibition explores one of the most adventurous and influential moments in the history of architecture: the explosion of invention and ideas that followed the October Revolution in Russia. The Soviet avant-garde architects were productivist as much as aesthetic in their concerns; they saw architecture and the arts as one, and they were committed to bringing design(...)
Main galleries
articles
A history of references
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Article about the problems with the Chinese translation of Modern architecture: a critical history
AP197.S1.SS4.022
1996
Article about the problems with the Chinese translation of Modern architecture: a critical history
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1996
drawings, textual records
The Man of History and Their Architecture paper by Vikramaditya Prakash with accompanying drawings
AP206.S4.032
circa 1980s
drawings, textual records
circa 1980s
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Clippings of images from magazines for the Modern architecture: a critical history publication
AP197.S1.SS4.029
circa 2014-2016
Clippings of images from magazines for the Modern architecture: a critical history publication
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circa 2014-2016
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Drafts and notes for the French chapter of the Modern architecture: a critical history publication
AP197.S1.SS4.018
circa 1970-1983
Drafts and notes for the French chapter of the Modern architecture: a critical history publication
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circa 1970-1983
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AP197.S1.SS4.025
2012
Edits for the French translation of Modern architecture: a critical history by Helene Borraz
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2012
Michela Rosso, 2013 Support Grant Recipient, presents her research from Peter Carter’s archive on the Mansion House square scheme (1962–1985) and shows the different facets of the controversy over Mies van der Rohe’s unbuilt tower in the heart of the City of London. Rosso holds a doctorate from the Politecnico di Torino, where since 2003 she has been Associate professor(...)
Shaughnessy House
30 May 2013, 6pm
Friends and Enemies of Mies’s Mansion House Square
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Michela Rosso, 2013 Support Grant Recipient, presents her research from Peter Carter’s archive on the Mansion House square scheme (1962–1985) and shows the different facets of the controversy over Mies van der Rohe’s unbuilt tower in the heart of the City of London. Rosso holds a doctorate from the Politecnico di Torino, where since 2003 she has been Associate professor(...)
Shaughnessy House