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Peter Salter: Drawing Walmer Yard (Paperback)
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Peter Salter: Drawing Walmer Yard (Paperback)
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Published to accompany the exhibition Peter Salter: Drawing Walmer
Yard at Piano Nobile marking the launch of Peter Salter's first
residential building in Britain, this fully illustrated catalogue
presents a selection of Salter's extraordinary drawings for the
project. With a new essay by Peter Salter on his drawings and an
introduction by architectural associate Fenella Collingridge, the
catalogue reveals the intrinsic importance of Salter's drawings to
the process of his architectural practice. Exploratory, indicative,
and instructive, Salter's drawings oscillate between place and
detail, idea and representation, strategy and materiality.
Persuasively imaging a lived environment, Salter effortlessly
shifts between high level planning and intricate detail - an
overarching idea is formulated through the exposition of detail.
One sheet of tracing paper might encompass scales of 1:100, 1:20
and 1:1 as a problem is worked through; controlled struggle to
enable critical development resides on the surface of the tracing
paper. The integrity of the idea manifests through the removal of
extraneous information, variation in stress and weighting of pen
lines, and the whimsical figures that populate the drawings,
sleeping, sitting, and reading. Salter writes "Because of the
fragmentary nature of idea and detail, the drawing becomes a
compound of notions. Intuition becomes honed by redrawing, the
judgement of the eye tuned by retracing the familiar, and sometimes
a critical reading achieved through erasure." Peter Salter AADipl
(Hons) was educated at and taught at the AA for 13 years, in
Intermediate and Diploma School. In the early years of his career
he worked for Alison and Peter Smithson, and his work attempts to
carry the convictions of that practice. In 2004 he was jointly
awarded the Annie Spinks prize for Excellence in Teaching,
reaffirmed by the award of an Honorary Fellow of the RIBA in 2012.
Following seven years as Head of School (Architecture) at the
University of East London, he was appointed Professor of
Architecture at the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff, where he
still teaches. His early built projects were in Japan, including
the Inami Woodcarving Museum and Kamiichi Pavilion; Walmer Yard is
his first building in the UK.
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