Charles Saumarez Smith
@CSaumarezSmith
Art and Architectural Historian
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A The New York Times piece about the wonderful jewelry designer Romilly Sumarez Smith who - after losing the use of her hands due to MS - thought her career was over.
Then she realised collaborations could mean she cld continue bring her creative imaginings to life.
nytimes.com/2023/05/26/fas…
✨Join us for the next seminar in our Architecture Summer series with Moa K. Carlsson & Otto Saumarez Smith
Landscapes of Waste: Towards an Urban History of Coal Spoil in Modern Britain
🗓️31 May 2023 from 5pm–7pm
🎟️Free tickets and wine reception: paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/whats-on/forth…
For #InternationalMuseumDay , we're revisiting our conversation with 'The Art Museum in Modern Times' author Charles Saumarez Smith.
In this episode, he explores the ‘Disneyfication’ of the art museum, the uniquely contemporary role of the museum café, & more: thamesandhudson.com/news/podcast-w…
Interested in finding out more about the Castle Howard Mausoleum?
Learn about architect John Vanbrugh's involvement in the origins of the mausoleum, as well as the ideas and beliefs which led to its construction in this free talk by Charles Saumarez Smith
Book: warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/directo…
#AnthonyEyton Royal Academy celebrates his 100th birthday on May 17, 2023 – Many Happy Returns!
The photograph was taken at #TonyEyton ’s London studio in February 2019.
Tate RWA Bristol Royal Watercolour Society The London Group Art UK DACS
BBC London Charles Saumarez Smith Full piece in the first ten minutes of Politics London bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…
Ben Derbyshire PPRIBA FRSA HonAIA Charles Saumarez Smith In my Royal Academy talk I suggested that Architects should sign a pledge to ‘first do no harm’. This Herzog de Meuron scheme is doing maximum harm.
Book now for our upcoming Director's Seminar with Charles Saumarez Smith:
'The Castle Howard Mausoleum Revisited'
Thursday 1 June, 5:30 - 7pm | 📍 The Warburg Institute
warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/directo…
“Now, Herzog & de Meuron is at risk of being remembered for putting two tower blocks on top of a Victorian building, which should be a lesson to all architects as to how not to behave.'
Charles Saumarez Smith
.Charles Saumarez Smith has a suspicion that Gavin Stamp will be at least as influential in death as he was in life thecritic.co.uk/issues/may-202…
The Critic Charles Saumarez Smith Charles mentions that Stamp was 'much less predictable in his views than might be expected'. Indeed: his mid-life conversion to an appreciation of historic modernism - Seifert included - was a Damascene moment.
Gavin Stamp will be remembered as a pivotal figure in the move away from modernism, argues Charles Saumarez Smith
thecritic.co.uk/issues/may-202…