competition drawings
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Drawings done to express proposed designs in a competition, which is a formal process by which competing architects or artists submit plans to the same client or patron for the same architectural or artistic project.Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Smith and Brewer drawings
Collection
Identifier: SB
Abstract
Arnold Dunbar Smith (1866-1933) and Cecil Claude Brewer (1871-1918) formed a partnership in London in 1895, establishing a reputation as arts and crafts architects working in the so-called "Free Style" of the 1890s. The firm's work was mainly domestic, using vernacular traditions, until their design for the National Museum of Wales (1910) in which they employed the then-popular Beaux-Arts style. The collection is comprised of architectural drawings which best represent Smith and Brewer's...
Dates:
1896-1939
Found in:
Alexander Architectural Archives