Read, Sophie;
(2025)
Using Drawings in the Lecture Room: John Soane's Architectural Performances at the Royal Institution.
Romanticism
, 31
(1)
pp. 48-57.
10.3366/rom.2025.0671.
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Abstract
Little is known about the non-specialist and semi-public lectures which the architect John Soane delivered to general audiences at the Royal Institution in 1817 and 1820. This is in contrast to the large amount of scholarly attention which his longer, more detailed and invitation-only lectures composed for the architectural students of the Royal Academy of Arts have received. This essay provides the first detailed account of the popular RI lectures, revealing Soane's scenographic methods of using lecture drawings with spoken words in a form of early-nineteenth-century, embodied architectural pedagogy. The essay argues for the significance of Soane's lectures as historically-situated performances (not written texts or printed works) and sets out a radical methodology that draws from the disciplines of theatre and performance history to read architectural history.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Using Drawings in the Lecture Room: John Soane's Architectural Performances at the Royal Institution |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.3366/rom.2025.0671 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.3366/rom.2025.0671 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | John Soane, architecture, lectures, performance, drawing, pedagogy |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Architecture |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10167902 |
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