Guest Post: Surface tension: the surprising truth about many of our historic facades.
In appreciating this it also demonstrates an innate sense of how buildings work, a relationship then between the seemly and seamlessness.
Andy Marshall
Architectural Photographer in a time-travelling camper van. 📸🚐🏛️ Architecture, Travel, History, Place, Material Culture.
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Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 9 Jun 2023
There's a rap on the door. It's Caroline the architect - I'm still in my orrery. I exit the van via the rear door and hand her a rainbow baton we found earlier in the Orangery - left over from a wedding at the weekend. The tailgate hisses as it rises. I feel like Major Tom exiting an air lock.
A Year in the life: 8 June 2022
I’m fascinated by the stuff. Etched within and without the officious walls of our churches are the whispers of ordinary people that found a way of making their mark without others seeing.
⛫ The Cast Room: Doom Painting at Chaldon.
Welcome to my virtual Cast Room. On my travels, I've been taking augmented reality casts of things that appeal to me. The Cast Room is inspired by the Cast Courts of the V&A which hold a vast selection of casts taken of great works of art all over the globe. Members Only.
Be there: St. Andrew Brigstock in glorious VR
The church at St. Andrew has a rare Anglo-Saxon circular turret which is attached to a Saxon tower.
Be there: Kew Gardens and the Thames in glorious VR
Kew is such a magical place. Evolving from the royal pleasure grounds into the botanical gardens that we know today. It was to here that in 1768 Joseph Banks sent seeds whilst on Captain Cook's voyage to the South Seas.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 2 June 2023
I love drilling down from a complex construct of the past (such as a cathedral) to the patina on its walls which holds more complexity than the building itself. A universe in the particular.
Genius Palazzo: Mid-week-pick-me-up
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Be there: Portsmouth Cathedral in glorious VR
More than any other cathedral, Portsmouth has a complicated and layered history that, unusually, includes some major C20th interventions.