Speed; acceleration and rapid change characterize our world; and as we design and construct buildings that are to last at least a few decades and sometimes even centuries; how can architecture continue to act as an important cultural signifier? Focusing on how an important nineteenth-century architect addressed the already shifting relation between architecture; time and history; this book offers insights on issues still relevant today-the struggle between imitation and innovation; the definition (or rejection) of aesthetic experience; the grounds of architectural judgment (who decides and how); or fundamentally; how to act (i.e. build) when there is no longer a single grand narrative but a plurality of possible histories. Six drawings provide the foundation of an itinerary through Charles Robert Cockerell’s conception of architecture; and into the depths of drawings and buildings. Born in England in 1788; Cockerell sketched as a Grand Tourist; he charted architectural history as Royal Academy Professor; he drew to build; to exhibit; to understand the past and to learn from it; publishing his last work in 1860; three years before his death. Under our scrutiny; his drawings become thresholds into the nineteenth century; windows into the architect’s conception of architecture and time; complex documents of past and projected constructions; great examples that reveal a kinetic approach to ornamentation; and the depth of architectural representation.
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