Naples

October 19th, 2009 by Patrick Lynch

These drawings and images are from an exhibition of our unit’s work at The Architectural Association in 2003. Drawings are not texts but we do read spaces too, just as it is images that we remember from a poem or a novel.

“Trade, deeply rooted in Naples, borders on a game of chance and adheres closely [...]

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The Value of Mouldings

October 19th, 2009 by Patrick Lynch

‘Architectural cornices have another more powerful value: the capacity to condense to the utmost the sense of the concrete, of existence, of objective reality….. A work of art is such inasmuch as it conveys and condenses within itself a sense of reality, of concreteness, so acute that no element in the realm of nature can [...]

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