Architecture
Found in 63 Collections and/or Records:
A Remembrance of R.L.S.: A Proposal for the Robert Louis Stevenson Club / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Lindsley, Kathleen., 1987
A Shaded Path (1) , 1987
This is a proposal for a straight and level path of 78 clay bricks stamped with names of Virgil in place of the maker's name. The path is to be built indoors, on a level floor, or out-of-doors on any grass-covered level ground without shade. Finlay s walk upon but for the mind to follow. It leads from Carl Andre's brick compositions to an elegiac classicism. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Archive for A Garden of Wild Stones / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Harvey, Michael; Lyle, Peter; Thorpe, John R.; Butler, Vincent; Oliver, George; Jones D., 1972 - 1973
Archive for Greenwich Sundial / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Harvey, Michael., 1971 - 1973
Archive for Kelso Project: A Solemnity of Sundials / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Harvey, Michael., 1973 - 1974
Archive for Little Secret Bird-Bath / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Thomson, George L.; Allan, James., 1972 - 1974
Archive for Mare/Terra / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Harvey, Michael; Goodricke, Susan; Costley R; Jandl E., 1973
In Sep 1973, Finlay writes to Michael Harvey requesting that Harvey and Goodricke make a ceramic-concrete maquette, based upon a Ron Costley sketch, for the Stuttgart Max Plank project. Finlay provides detailed instructions on the lettering for the work. A month later, he comments on the Harvey efforts indicating that he wants a "Matisse'y" effect which depends upon a flat surface as opposed to a kinetic effect that looses the balance between the visual and the word part. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Archive for Poems Written Upon The Breath A Claudel Varient: Projected Sundial / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Harvey, Michael; Thorpe, John R.; Harvey M; Cutts S; Lassus B; Gardner I., 1973 - 1974
Archive for Student Refectory Installation / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Lyle, Peter., 1972 - 1973
The drawings consist of architectural sketches for a Student Refectory that was unrealized by the Wild Hawthorn Press. One of the Lyle letters also includes an ink sketch for "Sea Stones" also an unrealozed project. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Archive for Stuttgart Max Planck Project / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Costley, Ron., 1972 - 1978
Archive for the Portsmouth City Art Project: The Water's Hours & The Sky's Hours; Numbered Sails / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Harvey, Michael; Goodricke, Susan., 1973
In Oct 1973, Harvey writes to Finlay with descriptions of proposals for the Portsmith City Art Project, viz., Water's & Sky's Hours and Numbered Sails. He also sends Finlay drawings which are cataloged separately in the Sackner Archive. Finlay replied within a week with minor modifications prior to their submission into the competition. He adds a note of encouragement to Harvey, "So the question is, who will get the Third Prize (As we have won the First and Second)." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Archive for Torso Carrier, Amphora, Stove and Gnoman / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Andrew, John., 1973 - 1974
Beutiful Kydippe: A Proposal for the Garden of Dr and Mrs Herkenhoner, Hennef, Germany / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Harvey, Michael., 1991
The words, Beautiful Kydippe, incised into a tree-bark by Callimachus (270 B.C.) are transcribed into a stone plaque (print image) shaped to the trunk of a tree. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Clip Stamp Fold: The Radical Architecture of Little Magaines 196X to 197X / Colomina, Beatriz, editor ; Buckley, Craig, editor ; Sky A ; Bois YA ; Bann S ; Cook P ; Steadman P ; Aubert J ; Lissitzky E ; Ranier A ; Samaras L ; Finlay IH ; Valoch J ; Biederman C ; Rodchenko A., 2010
Gateway to a Grove / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Harvey, Michael., 1985
This work is based upon a design by the Elizabethan architect, Inago Jones. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Jeunesse Doree of the Counter Revolution! / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1987
This card mentions the names of individuals who were critically antagonistic to Finlay's Temple Garden, viz., Headley and Meulenkamp, authors of "Follies, A National Trust Guide" and Januszczack, the Guardian art critic. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Klassische Landschaft , 1985
Two versions of a landscape by Johann Christian Reinhart are altered by the words Xaipe and W ave inscribed into stones in the foreground. The former means hail or farewell in Greek and ave in the latter picture means the same in Latin. The addition of w creating the word wave relates to the flowing spring. There is a stone in Finlay's garden inscribed WAVE/ave. Printed by the Stellar Press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Lexical Diversions of Ian Hamilton Finlay / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Stewart, Mark., 1983
Provides Finlay's descriptions of architectural elements, e.g., column is a consonancy of drums and flutes, volute is a form subsisting in the tree-bark, etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Liberty Equality Eternity: An Installation for the New Gallery of Modern Art, Ingram Street, Glasgow / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Simig, Pia Maria; Hincks, Gary., 1996
Finlay proposes to inscribe each word of the title onto a guillotine blade to be set into three deeply recessed windows of the gallery. The proposal documents his reasons and depicts line drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.