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Pidgeon Digital archive trial now available from the University of Edinburgh Library!
Listen to the greatest minds in modern architecture. Access hundreds of illustrated talks and interviews with major twentieth century architects within this online audio-visual collection. Founded by Monica Pidgeon, editor of influential radical magazine Architectural Design. Fully searchable illustrated talks and transcripts. Notable speakers include 17 Pritzker Prize winners and 15 RIBA Royal Gold Medal winners, including Zaha Hadid, Ted Happold, Serge Chermayeff, Richard Rogers, Cedric Price, Norman Foster and Felix Candela, to name but a few.
Free 60 day trial access using this link to our current library e-resources trials.
The 20 volume set has been described as the “first great modern-day compendium of the world’s Buddhist arts”, it contains nearly 10,000 entries and over 14,000 full-colour images, exploring art, architecture, sculpture, cave and rock painting, caligraphy, decorative arts and more.
We are delighted to have a pop up display of books relating to British architect Cedric Price (1934-2003), at the A&A Library, to coincide with the new Thinkbelt exhibition at the Mathew Gallery, Minto House.
The exhibition celebrates the legacy of Cedric Price and prompts reflection on how architecture can be useful, timely, delightful and permeable to respond to current environmental and social challenges.
Curated by Prof. María José Martínez Sánchez, Dr. Ana Bonet Miró, Martin Brown, the exhibition runs from 11-22 November 2024.
The exhibition’s centrepiece features two original market stall prototypes from the Drawing Matter Collection, designed by Price and never exhibited before. Alongside these prototypes, a range of archival materials – including prints of original drawings, texts, ephemera, film extracts and audio recordings – offers a glimpse into the diversity of Price’s practice and the interdisciplinary conversations that animated it.
In the spirit of Price’s Potteries Thinkbelt project, this initiative aims to stimulate discussions about some of the key principles of his architecture – such as the provision of user-centred designs that increase choice, encourage change, do more with less, facilitate easy assembly and disassembly, and create responsive designs that delight the communities they serve – in relation to a selection of pedagogies and practices at each school. It prompts some of Price’s key design questions: Who do we design for? How little need be done? For how long is it useful? How to make time visible in our designs? What might design for pleasure and delight mean today?
Monday 26th October 2016:
This week we have Professor Barry Bergdoll visiting ECA ESALA as Simpson Visiting Professor.
We are delighted to welcome Professor Bergdoll to ECA and to mark the occasion we have some of his books on special display in the Art & Architecture Library at Minto House, Chambers Street.
The following books can be found in our collections at ECA Library, the Art & Architecture Library or at the Main Library, George Square. Check DiscoverEd for details. Latin America in construction: architecture 1955-1980, Museum of Modern Art, 2015 Henri Labrouste: structure brought to light, Museum of Modern Art, 2012 Rising currents: projects for New York’s waterfront, Thames & Hudson, 2011 Bauhaus 1919-1933: workshops for modernity, Museum of Modern Art, 2009 Home delivery: fabricating the modern dwelling, Museum of Modern Art, 2008 European Architecture 1750-1890, Oxford University Press, 2000 Mies in Berlin, Museum of Modern Art, 2001 Karl Friedrich Schinkel: an architecture for Prussia, Rizzoli, 1994 Leon Vaudoyer: historicism in the age of industry, Architectural History Foundation & MIT Press, 1994
