Orleans House and The Octagon – [Local History Notes: 1]
Orleans House The riverside residence at Twickenham which was to become known as Orleans House was built in 1710 for James Johnston (1643?-1737) by John James, one of Wren’s chief…
Discovering Richmond upon Thames Libraries
Did you know that here in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames we have thirteen libraries? They range from the small and cosy Kew Library to the grand Teddington…
Pevsner: the Man and His Eponymous Architectural Guides
Nikolaus Pevsner was an academic and writer. He was born in Leipzig in 1902 to Russian-Jewish parents who had moved to Germany at some point before 1900. His parents took German…
Utopia to Dystopia: Utopian ideas in Twentieth Century architecture
Utopia The Oxford English Dictionary defines the word Utopia as 'An imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect'. 'The opposite of Dystopia'. The word originates from the 16th century…
Architectural Review: a magazine and its editors
Architectural Review (AR) was first published in 1896 and on the 120th anniversary we look at the role that its editors have had in shaping the oldest and possibly the…