Otto Saumarez Smithさんのイラストまとめ

Concept drawings #1 ☢️

Please come here me talk about Derelict Land & Leisure at QMUL - I've got lots of material I'm excited to share on Telford New Town, the Rhondda Valley, Stoke-on-Trent etc. & I hope an argument about janus-faced experience of change in the long-1970s.

https://t.co/27M8wQpAE8

@jamiembrixton Okay okay. Here they are! I think gin lane particularly spirited...

Some of the lighting effects at Expo '64 Lausanne.

Painstakingly perfect and utterly peculiar – the drawings of Jean-Jacques Lequeu.

My review of the Petit Palais show here:

https://t.co/Ql2k6WaTfe

@thevicsoc He was a founding member of the Vic Soc.

You'll like Greeves's High Victorian Capriccios, 'as if Lloyds of London had been designed by Benjamin Woodward rather than Richard Rogers' as Gavin Stamp put it.

Diagrams for the construction of steel framed tenement flats (1934)

Perspective drawings for Patrick Gwynne’s Serpentine Restaurant (1964, demolished 1990)

They remind me of the 1967 Listener cartoon 'the Trendy Ape' - although that is set in early gentrifying North London.

I love this postcard of Longton - apparently a socialist reply to a preacher who in 1903 described drink as "the devil in the potteries". 👹