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2 unusual facts about Robert Tavernor


Robert Tavernor

He founded the Centre for Advanced Studies in Architecture (CASA) at the University of Bath, and with Vaughan Hart, its current Director, established a focus on Classical and Italian Renaissance architectural treatises; between them they have translated and written about the leading classical architectural theorists – including, Vitruvius, Alberti, Serlio, and Palladio.

Photogrammetric drawings relating to research for the exhibition can be found on the CASA website at Bath University.


Joseph Rykwert

Sir James Stirling commented on The First Moderns, for example, that it was: ‘An erudite lead into my favourite period (early nineteenth century) with amazing revelations on the architectural heroes of the time.’ Many of Rykwert’s former pupils have gone on to have significant careers in their own right, such as Daniel Libeskind, Shams Naga, Eric Parry, Alberto Pérez-Gómez, Mohsen Mostafavi, Robert Tavernor, Vaughan Hart and David Leatherbarrow.


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