Arcady RA

I probably sketch Michelangelo’s Capitoline palazzos more than any other building. There are very few other structures so pregnant with ideas, they make the giant order facades of Palladio and Maderno that follow seem full of arbitrary accretions

Design for a civic office

If you use the term ‘facade treatment’, when you die the spirit of Inigo Jones chases you around Hades pricking you with a compass forever

Arcades and colonnades

'What moves men of genius, or rather, what inspires their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.' -Delacroix

Vault of the drawing room at Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire, Soane

Round House, St Davids, Gowan

Lantern of the Sagrestia Nuova in the Basilica of San Lorenzo, Florence, Michelangelo

Also today- under the shaded pilotis of British modernist firm Tecton’s Hallfield Estate

Another back-breaking day of thinking about shapes

Orangery for Tuscany

Stairwell of the Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Milan, Gardella