Charles Saumarez Smith
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Sir Charles Saumarez Smith is a British cultural historian of art, design and architecture.
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4 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
- Born: 28 May 1954, Redlynch, Wiltshire (opens wiqqi.app)
- Education: History and history of art, King's College, Cambridge; PhD, Warburg Institute (1986) (opens wiqqi.app)
- Books: The Building of Castle Howard (1990); The National Gallery: A Short History (2009); The Company of Artists (2012); East London (2017); The Art Museum in Modern Times (2021) (opens wiqqi.app)
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1 channel on ppll (opens ppll.app)
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7 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Liverpool Street Station can be modernised while keeping its original Victorian character. (opens korrents.com)
“So, it is clear that it is perfectly possible to protect the original Victorian character of the station while at the same time modernising it.”
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A long, drawn-out planning process can sometimes produce a good outcome, as it did at the Custom House. (opens korrents.com)
“It feels like a model of how – sometimes – a long drawn-out planning process can have a good outcome.”
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Frank Gehry was the most significant figure in international architectural practice. (opens korrents.com)
“It is hard to think of anyone more significant in international architectural practice than Frank Gehry who died yesterday.”
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Liverpool Street Station can be modernised while keeping its original Victorian character. (opens korrents.com)
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2 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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The Art Museum (opens rcmnd.app)
“McClellan is an historian of museums who I know and admire, and I’ve had an inscribed copy of The Art Museum: From Boullée to Bilbao since it came out.”
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Anti-Museum (opens rcmnd.app)
“Anti-Museum is an academic book and general set of reflections about what Franklin sees, I think correctly, as not just a single move against the traditional museum, but a wider international movement.”
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The Art Museum (opens rcmnd.app)