Architectural Press

2007

In 2007 the RIBA Library Photographs Collection took over the photographic archive of the Architectural Press from Emap, publisher of the Architects' Journal and Architectural Review.

The archive comprises c.500,000 prints and negatives commissioned and used by the Press in its publications from 1930 to 1982. Among the highlights of the archive are c.2,000 glass plate negatives taken by Dell and Wainwright, official photographers to the Architectural Review from 1930 - 1946.

Parts of this collection can now be enjoyed digitally via RIBApix|.

Charles Robert Cockerell's tribute to Christopher Wren

2006

'A Tribute to Sir Christopher Wren', a drawing by Charles Robert Cockerell RA, brings together all the buildings that in the early 19th century were believed to be by Wren into one vast urban landscape.

The purchase was made possible by grants from the Heritage Lottery Fund, The Art Fund, the British Architectural Library Trust and the RIBA Drawings Endowment Fund.

Codex Stosch

2006

The Codex Stosch, one of the most significant 16th century collections of architectural drawings of the great buildings of ancient Rome, produced by Giovanni Battista da Sangallo (1496 - 1548), a member of Raphael's circle.

The Library purchased the Codex with funds from the British Architectural Library Trust, The Art Fund, and the Library's Drawings Endowment Fund.

Design model for Easton Neston

2005

This 17th century architectural design model for Nicholas Hawksmoor's Easton Neston, Northamptonshire, was commissioned by William Fermor, 1st Baron Lempster.

The oak model, which was made in the 1690s, dismantles to reveal its interior, and features plasterwork details carved into the wood.

Financial support for this purchase came from the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the National Art Collections Fund (The Art Fund), the British Architectural Library Trust, and the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council's PRISM Fund.