Imagining Highgate Archway - six model essays on modernist urban transit design

David Lawrence

Imagining Highgate Archway - six model essays on modernist urban transit design

David Lawrence

Research output: Practice-based/Artistic research › Artefact

Abstract

Six scale models of Charles Holden's designs for Highgate Archway station were built to illustrate the breadth of modernist design used by London Underground in the early 1930s. Each model offers a concise study in a variety design aesthetics, whilst focussing the study on a single site.

Original language	English
Size	approximately 15cm high x 120 cm wide x 5cm deep
Publication status	Published - 11 Jan 2015
Event	Designology - London Transport Museum, London, U.K. Duration: 1 Jun 2016 → 1 Feb 2017

Bibliographical note

Media: scale three-dimensional model

Format: Physical models

Artefact Design Type: Three dimensional models

Impact: The models were exhibited by the London Transport Museum in an international exhibition of transport design and architecture during 2015-16. no other such models exist besides a limited collection in the archives of the Royal Institute of British Architects.

Keywords

Art and design

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