Hilla Becher
Fascinating obituaries of Hilla Becher, part of the photographer duo Hilla and Bernhard Becher who travelled Europe and the States documenting the industrial archaeology of their era....
Fascinating obituaries of Hilla Becher, part of the photographer duo Hilla and Bernhard Becher who travelled Europe and the States documenting the industrial archaeology of their era....
My mother came in from a visit to the National Gallery of Scotland with an idyllic landscape painting by James Ward, 1807, centring on the distinctive double nipples of the Eildon Hills. Those trout fishermen standing there in the River Tweed still exist today, reserve...
I can't compete with Private Eye "Me and My Spoon" but I have to record that I spotted a perfect miniature Abbotsford House on a spoon at my local coffee shop, Filament, (they do have a diverse spoon collection as well as faultless coffee). Abbotsford was...
Delighted to see theboilerhouseproject.com on the Journal page of themodernhouse.net in the "What We're Seeing" section....
Good to feature on the news page of the Docomomo International site...
Nice piece on the Boilerhouse project on thespaces.com...
Wild raspberry harvest from today’s site visit. I glimpsed a lamppost adjacent to the Boilerhouse site, it chimes with the audio book of “The Magician’s Nephew” by CS Lewis we had just been listening to!...
I just received a link from Docomomo Scotland to a brilliant short film with footage taken back in 1970 of Womersley's office! Click on the link and watch from 13 minutes in. It's a Scottish Screen Archive film essentially celebrating the Borders and is available...
Womersley buildings in the Scottish Borders are representing the 20th Century buildings celebrated in the 2014 Venice Biennale, as showcased on the Creative Scotland website....
Thrilled to see that Peter Womersley was one of the three architects practicing in Scotland in the period 1950-1970 chosen by James Grimley of Reiach and Hall Architects to be showcased in one of the publications produced for Scotland's presence at the 2014 Architecture Biennale...