Lines - Softcover

Ian Ritchie

 
9781905711819: Lines
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1905711816 ISBN 13: 9781905711819
Publisher: Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2010

Synopsis

With an eclectic practice embracing urban planning, public sculpture and industrial design, Ian Ritchie CBE RA is one of Britain’s most visionary architects. Published here for the first time, his poems, aphorisms and etchings witness a profound engagement with the built environment. Ritchie writes poetry in order to better understand a project, using words to investigate the particularities or challenges of a site, and the process of composition to bring ideas into focus. His calligraphic etchings imagine the shape or spirit of commissions in simple but powerful strokes. Variably pragmatic and philosophical, often witty, his aphorisms on work and life – from the importance of light to the nature and possibility of progress – reveal a modernist’s belief in the potential of architecture to improve society. These are lines of thought, committed to paper before any designing begins. They demonstrate that, for Ritchie, being an architect is many more things besides. Ian Ritchie CBE RA is an internationally acclaimed architect. His built designs include the Leipzig Glass Hall, the Spire of Dublin, the elevator shafts for the Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, and the RSC Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, winner of the RIBA National Award in 2007.

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About the Authors

Ian Ritchie is an internationally acclaimed architect. His built designs include the Leipzig Glass Hall, the Spire of Dublin, the elevator shafts for the Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, and the RSC Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, winner of the RIBA National Award in 2007.



Ian Ritchie CBERA is an internationally acclaimed arehitect. His built designs include the Leipzig Glass Hall, the Spire of Dublin, the lift towers of Madrid's Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, the Crystal Palace Concert Platform in London, the Plymouth Theatre Royal TR2 Production Centre and the RSC: Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon. His considerable portfolio of outstanding works has little routine or repetition.

From the Back Cover

With an eclectic practice embracing urban planning, public sculpture and industrial design, Ian Ritchie CBE RA is one of Britain's most visionary architects. Published here for the first time, his poems, aphorisms and etchings witness a profound engagement with the built environment. Ritchie writes poetry in order to better understand a project, using words to investigate the particularities or challenges of a site, and the process of composition to bring ideas into focus. His calligraphic etchings imagine the shape or spirit of commissions in simple but powerful strokes. Variably pragmatic and philosophical, often witty, his aphorisms on work and life - from the importance of light to the nature and possibility of progress - reveal a modernist's belief in the potential of architecture to improve society. These are lines of thought, committed to paper before any designing begins. They demonstrate that, for Ritchie, being an architect is many more things besides. Ian Ritchie CBE RA is an internationally acclaimed architect. His built designs include the Leipzig Glass Hall, the Spire of Dublin, the elevator shafts for the Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, and the RSC Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, winner of the RIBA National Award in 2007.

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Publisher
Royal Academy of Arts, London
Publication date
2010
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1905711816
ISBN 13 
9781905711819
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
96