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This exhibit of Newcastle University Stage One Architecture student work displays drawings our students did in their first semester, encompassing the projects Inhabiting Interiority and Chair & Figure. The work consists of abstract composite collages meditating on the relationship between the human scale and specific modernist houses the students analysed and studied in model, plan, section, and elevation, as well as more literal large- scale pencil drawings of chairs, showing their direct relationship to the human figure. The chairs the students measured and drew at 1:1 scale include several of the Prince Bishop’s throne chairs on display at Durham Castle, the Quire Stalls and the Bishop’s Throne at Durham Cathedral, Marcel Breuer’s Wassily and Reclining Long Chairs, and an Eames Chair and Ottoman, as well as a contemporary adjustable bench designed by bespoke furniture designers Raskl in Ouseburn Valley. The Marcel Breuer chairs were accessible to the students thanks to the generous support of the Shipley Art Gallery, which hosted an extended version of this exhibit from 3 April - 29 May 2018. The ability to interact with these rare design objects at Shipley Gallery was an invaluable opportunity for our students. We hope you enjoy the exhibit! Planning & Landscape School of Architecture CHAIR & FIGURE Re:Pose INHABITING INTERIORITY featuring work from CHAIR & FIGURE technical pencil drawings top row: Raskl’s Agranda Bench perspective, elevation and plan Roxana Caplan, Alic Cann Jonathan Barker, Pei Tung Au Marcel Breuer’s Wassily Chair rendered perspective Aysel Imanova, Ella Johnson Hyeonuk Kim, Muhammad Norazim Marcel Breuer’s Wassily Chair wireframe perspective side view Jonas Varnauskas, Yingjin Wang Talal Bader, Charlie Barratt Marcel Breuer’s Wassily Chair rendered side elevation Grace Carroll, Shuwardi Boon Seen, Colin Elkington, Sam Bell Marcel Breuer’s Wassily Chair partially rendered front view Matty Carr-Millar, Celine Carucci Shuk Yi Fung, Jessica Gregory Marcel Breuer’s Reclining Long Chair side elevation Charlotte Ashford, Sarah Bushnell Kate Buurman, Jean Nee Chia INHABITING INTERIORITY composite collages second row: Louis Kahn, Fisher House, Roxana Caplan Smiljan Radic, House of Wood, Alvin Tsang Kazuyo Sejima, Plum Grove, Yanny Si Tou Charles Moore, Own House, Kieren Forrest Eileen Gray, E1027, Latifa Al Nawar Adolf Loos, Müller House, Katie Flower Adolf Loos, Müller House, Xuan Yew Lina Bo Bardi, Casa De Vldrio, Alahi Abu Alvar Aalto, Maison Carré, Denisa Calomfirescu INHABITING INTERIORITY composite collages third row: Yo Shimada, Hokusetsu House, Leo Fieldhouse Eileen Gray, E1027, Franky Choy Smiljan Radic, House of Wood, Charlotte Ashford Kazuo Shinohara, Uhehara, Pei Tung Au Kazuyo Sejima, Plum Grove, Jerrica Liu Pezo von Elrichausen, Poli House, Georgina Walker Le Corbusier, Maison Curutchet, Hyeonuk Kim Louis Kahn, Fisher House, Andrew Chan Rudolf Schindler, Schindler-Chace House, Katie Belch CHAIR & FIGURE technical pencil drawings bottom row: Durham Castle’s Van Mildert Bishop’s Chair Front and Side Elevation Ethan Medd, Feyzan Sarachogulu Rachel Sexton, Ella Waite Durham Castle’s Prince Bishop’s Chair Front Elevation, mid-chair back Junghee Han, Qixing Huang Amir Hussain, Hyelim Lee Durham Cathedral Bishop’s Throne Elevation and Detail Paola Jahoda, Hei Lok Hong Che-Yi Lin, Mariana Morales Munoz Durham Cathedral Plan Pascalle Veen, Natasha Rice Tess Tollast, Hizkia Widyanto Durham Castle’s Prince Bishop’s Chair Front Elevation, lower stretcher Junghee Han, Qixing Huang Amir Hussain, Hyelim Lee Durham Castle 18th-Century Chair Axo Kieren Forrest, Wei Hua Brian Hui, Bella Colley Elizabeth Baldwin Gray Newcastle University Marcel Breuer, Wassily Chair 1925-1926 Closely linked to the Bauhaus movement and designed while Breuer was master of the furniture design workshop in Dessau, this chair was inspired by a bicycle and named after Breuer’s friend and colleague, Wassily Kandinsky, who had admired the prototype. Taking an interest in industrial materials and manufacturing techniques, Breuer designed the Wassily Chair as an analogue of what he thought of as a timeless design: the bicycle. The design of the chair recalls the steel tubing and the curvature of bicycle handles. Marcel Breuer, Reclining Long Chair 1935-1936 The Long Chair was designed by Marcel Breuer for furniture manufacturer Isokon in 1935 and first produced in 1936. Isokon was founded in London by visionary British entrepreneur Jack Pritchard in 1929 to build modernist houses, flats, furniture, and fittings. Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus, was its initial Controller of Design, later followed by his protégé, Breuer. Pritchard was intrigued by the moulded plywood furniture designed by the Finnish architect Alvar Aalto and commissioned Breuer to produce similar pieces. Durham Castle, Prince Bishops’ Chairs 17th to 19th-century Durham Castle is home to a number of unique furnishings from different historical periods, reflecting the wide variety of prevailing styles over the course of its existence. The chairs of Durham Castle’s collection are placed throughout the museum; many beautiful examples of Prince Bishop’s chairs featuring ornate incised carvings can be found along the Gallery. Other, more clean-lined examples, such as the Wainscot Chair, named for the fine grade of oak of which the chair is constructed, and a mark of distinction of early 17th- century British households, can be found on the well- known flying staircase. Durham Cathedral, Bishop’s Throne and Quire Stalls 14th to 17th-century The choir, or ‘Quire’, stalls of Durham Cathedral are situated in the area extending from the nave beyond the transept. They were commissioned by Bishop John Cosin in the 17th-century and are a combination of Gothic and then-contemporary Jacobean forms. The highest seat in the Quire is the ‘Cathedra’ or Bishop’s Throne and is, as the name suggests, reserved for the Bishop. One morning in the mid-14th century, the story goes, Bishop Hatfield asked several monks to go to the Vatican and measure the Pope’s throne, when they came back, he told them to make his throne one inch higher so that he could have the highest seat in all of Christendom. It is still said to be the highest known Bishop’s Throne among the cathedrals of Europe.
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This exhibit of Newcastle University Stage One Architecture student work displays drawings our students did in their first semester, encompassing the projects Inhabiting Interiority and Chair & Figure. The work consists of abstract composite collages meditating on the relationship between the human scale and specific modernist houses the students analysed and studied in model, plan, section, and elevation, as well as more literal large-scale pencil drawings of chairs, showing their direct relationship to the human figure.
The chairs the students measured and drew at 1:1 scale include several of the Prince Bishop’s throne chairs on display at Durham Castle, the Quire Stalls and the Bishop’s Throne at Durham Cathedral, Marcel Breuer’s Wassily and Reclining Long Chairs, and an Eames Chair and Ottoman, as well as a contemporary adjustable bench designed by bespoke furniture designers Raskl in Ouseburn Valley.
The Marcel Breuer chairs were accessible to the students thanks to the generous support of the Shipley Art Gallery, which hosted an extended version of this exhibit from 3 April - 29 May 2018. The ability to interact with these rare design objects at Shipley Gallery was an invaluable opportunity for our students. We hope you enjoy the exhibit!
Planning & LandscapeSchool of Architecture
CHAIR & FIGURE
Re:PoseINHABITING INTERIORITYfeaturing work from
CHAIR & FIGUREtechnical pencil drawings
top row:
Raskl’s Agranda Benchperspective, elevation and plan
Roxana Caplan, Alic CannJonathan Barker, Pei Tung Au
Marcel Breuer’s Wassily Chairrendered perspective
Aysel Imanova, Ella Johnson Hyeonuk Kim, Muhammad Norazim
Marcel Breuer’s Wassily Chairwireframe perspective side viewJonas Varnauskas, Yingjin Wang
Talal Bader, Charlie Barratt
Marcel Breuer’s Wassily Chair rendered side elevation
Grace Carroll, Shuwardi Boon Seen, Colin Elkington, Sam Bell
Marcel Breuer’s Wassily Chairpartially rendered front view
Matty Carr-Millar, Celine Carucci Shuk Yi Fung, Jessica Gregory
Marcel Breuer’s Reclining Long Chairside elevation
Charlotte Ashford, Sarah Bushnell Kate Buurman, Jean Nee Chia
INHABITING INTERIORITYcomposite collages
second row:Louis Kahn, Fisher House, Roxana Caplan
Smiljan Radic, House of Wood, Alvin TsangKazuyo Sejima, Plum Grove, Yanny Si Tou
Charles Moore, Own House, Kieren ForrestEileen Gray, E1027, Latifa Al Nawar
Adolf Loos, Müller House, Katie FlowerAdolf Loos, Müller House, Xuan Yew
Lina Bo Bardi, Casa De Vldrio, Alahi AbuAlvar Aalto, Maison Carré, Denisa Calomfirescu
INHABITING INTERIORITYcomposite collages
third row:Yo Shimada, Hokusetsu House, Leo Fieldhouse
Eileen Gray, E1027, Franky ChoySmiljan Radic, House of Wood, Charlotte Ashford
Kazuo Shinohara, Uhehara, Pei Tung AuKazuyo Sejima, Plum Grove, Jerrica Liu
Pezo von Elrichausen, Poli House, Georgina WalkerLe Corbusier, Maison Curutchet, Hyeonuk Kim
Louis Kahn, Fisher House, Andrew ChanRudolf Schindler, Schindler-Chace House, Katie Belch
CHAIR & FIGUREtechnical pencil drawings
bottom row:
Durham Castle’s Van Mildert Bishop’s ChairFront and Side Elevation
Ethan Medd, Feyzan Sarachogulu Rachel Sexton, Ella Waite
Durham Castle’s Prince Bishop’s ChairFront Elevation, mid-chair back
Junghee Han, Qixing HuangAmir Hussain, Hyelim Lee
Durham Cathedral Bishop’s ThroneElevation and Detail
Paola Jahoda, Hei Lok HongChe-Yi Lin, Mariana Morales Munoz
Durham Cathedral PlanPascalle Veen, Natasha RiceTess Tollast, Hizkia Widyanto
Durham Castle’s Prince Bishop’s ChairFront Elevation, lower stretcher
Junghee Han, Qixing HuangAmir Hussain, Hyelim Lee
Durham Castle 18th-Century Chair AxoKieren Forrest, Wei HuaBrian Hui, Bella ColleyElizabeth Baldwin Gray
Newcastle University
Marcel Breuer, Wassily Chair1925-1926
Closely linked to the Bauhaus movement and designed while Breuer was master of the furniture design workshop in Dessau, this chair was inspired by a bicycle and named after Breuer’s friend and colleague, Wassily Kandinsky, who had admired the prototype. Taking an interest in industrial materials and manufacturing techniques, Breuer designed the Wassily Chair as an analogue of what he thought of as a timeless design: the bicycle. The design of the chair recalls the steel tubing and the curvature of bicycle handles.
Marcel Breuer, Reclining Long Chair1935-1936
The Long Chair was designed by Marcel Breuer for furniture manufacturer Isokon in 1935 and first produced in 1936. Isokon was founded in London by visionary British entrepreneur Jack Pritchard in 1929 to build modernist houses, flats, furniture, and fittings. Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus, was its initial Controller of Design, later followed by his protégé, Breuer. Pritchard was intrigued by the moulded plywood furniture designed by the Finnish architect Alvar Aalto and commissioned Breuer to produce similar pieces.
Durham Castle, Prince Bishops’ Chairs17th to 19th-century
Durham Castle is home to a number of unique furnishings from different historical periods, reflecting the wide variety of prevailing styles over the course of its existence. The chairs of Durham Castle’s collection are placed throughout the museum; many beautiful examples of Prince Bishop’s chairs featuring ornate incised carvings can be found along the Gallery. Other, more clean-lined examples, such as the Wainscot Chair, named for the fine grade of oak of which the chair is constructed, and a mark of distinction of early 17th-century British households, can be found on the well-known flying staircase.
Durham Cathedral, Bishop’s Throne and Quire Stalls14th to 17th-century
The choir, or ‘Quire’, stalls of Durham Cathedral are situated in the area extending from the nave beyond the transept. They were commissioned by Bishop John Cosin in the 17th-century and are a combination of Gothic and then-contemporary Jacobean forms. The highest seat in the Quire is the ‘Cathedra’ or Bishop’s Throne and is, as the name suggests, reserved for the Bishop. One morning in the mid-14th century, the story goes, Bishop Hatfield asked several monks to go to the Vatican and measure the Pope’s throne, when they came back, he told them to make his throne one inch higher so that he could have the highest seat in all of Christendom. It is still said to be the highest known Bishop’s Throne among the cathedrals of Europe.
