This is a recording of a talk called 'Looking at Butterfield' by Nicholas Olsberg which was recorded on 6th April 2021.
Focusing on the approach taken by the lecturer with the photographer James Morris in making photographs for the first monograph on William Butterfield since Paul Thompson’s pioneering book of 1971, the talk will concentrate on lesser-known but outstanding examples of his work, including:
- The astonishing Yorkshire churches on the Humberhead Levels and at Dalton
- The flinty ruggedness of Salisbury Theological Seminary;
- The sturdy pragmatic grandeur of Exeter Grammar School and its chapel
- The invention of an entire townscape at Gordon Boys’ Home in Bagshot
- Some of Butterfield’s vast and largely unrecorded corpus of lodges and cottages
- The memorial chapel, great house, library and garden at Ottery St Mary, a late, meditative world of dream and memory.
A former director of the Canadian Centre for Architecture and founding head of Special Collections at the Getty Research Institute, Nicholas Olsberg is the author of The Master Builder: William Butterfield and his Times, published by Lund Humphries in 2021.
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