Julian Bicknell Associates - Architecture of Fine Quality

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Julian Bicknell

   

Bernardo Vittone:Architect of the Trancendental 2021

Bernardo Vittone (1704-1770) was one of the most inventive Architects of the late Italian Baroque. Working in Turin, he created churches, monasteries, nunneries, palazzi and town halls ~ scattered over the historic Duchy of Piedmont. Every one of Vittone's building are highly original, inviting the viewer into 'A World Beyond'.

Over a period of twenty years, Julian Bicknell has visited and photographed over half of these unique buildings, and examined many of Vittone's original drawings and engravings.

In this book he explores Vittone's life and work ~ explaning the architectural and aesthetic agenda, exploring his design methods, and providing previously unrecognised insights into his spatial composition and use of sophisticated geometry.

Julian Bicknell

Designs & Buildings 2001 - 2016

In 2016 Julian Bicknell & Associates published a folio of some 34 projects exquisitely reproduced, hand-crafted line drawings and watercolour perspectives.

These carefully chosen pieces illustrate executed and unbuilt designs selected from the work of the practice over the previous fifteen years.

Printed on photo quality paper in A3 landscape format, copies of the 115 page hardback book are still available:

To order please go to the contact page

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In 2000 Julian Bicknell & Associates published a folio of some forty exquisitely reproduced, hand-crafted line drawings.

These carefully chosen pieces illustrate executed and unbuilt designs selected from the work of the practice over the previous twenty years.

Printed on 155gm antique wove paper in A3 landscape format, copies of the 48 page book are still available: in card bindings at £50 per copy; in half-calf with matching slip case at £150 per copy.

To order please go to the contact page

S Maria l'Assunta - Grignasco

S Maria l'Assunta, the parish church of the small town of Grignasco in the foothills of the Alps NE of Turin, was built in the 1740s by Bernardo Antonio Vittone (1705-1770).

Julian Bicknell & Kevin Leadingham have made a careful geometrical analysis based on both Vittone's original drawings and the building itself which indicate how the building was composed in the studio and set out on the ground.

This has been published as one of the academic studies of the building, collected by the brothers Sitzia in the book 'Vittone a Grignasco – L’Assunta' published by the Comune di Grignasco in 2006

The study has also been presented in lectures at the Art Workers Guild, the Traditional Architecture Group, Greenwich University and Portsmouth University.

Hiroshige in Tokyo

(Pomegranate Books, San Francisco 1994)

This account of the life and work of Utagawa Hiroshige, the outstanding master of wood block representations of the Japanese landscape, was written by Julian Bicknell as part of a series on painters and places.

Julian Bicknell explores this great artist's life and work against the rich backround of Edo culture (Tokyo). With page after page of beautiful prints of Utagawa Hiroshige he examines the technical and artistic foundations of these woodblock prints and their contibution to the tradition of ukiyo-e (the floating world of fashion and entertainment).

Great Buildings Model Kit

(Clarkson Potter Publishers, New York 1995)

Text by Julian Bicknell; drawings for cut-out models by Steve Chapman.

This introduction to four great buildings of the world, provides simply created models of the Taj Mahal, the Parthenon, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, and Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello; together with a brief history of each.

The book has appeared in translation in a number of foreign languages. It is available through discount houses and from the author.

Publications

  • The work of the practice has appeared in magazines and publications in the UK, Italy, Japan and the USA.
  • Country Life have ran two front covers showing the work carried out at Castle Howard and Henbury Hall.
  • 300 Years of Castle Howard - Up From The Ashes. Article by Giles Worsley, April 1 1999.
  • Small Country Houses - Henbury Hall, Cheshire. Article by Jeremy Musson, February 28 2002.
  • The following anthologies of contemporary classical architecture show best the built designs of the practice:
  • Building Classical (Contributor). London: Academy Editions 1993
  • New Classicism (Contributor). New York: Rizzoli 2004
  • A Decade of Art & Architecture 1992-2002 (Contributor). New York:The Institute of Classical Architecture 2002
  • New Palladians (Contributor). London:Artmedia Ltd. 2010
  • The Art of Classical Details (Contributor). Victoria:The Images Publishing Group 2013

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Julian Bicknell & Associates is a London based architectural practice of thirty years standing, specialising in quality buildings, interiors and landscapes - mainly in classical or traditional style. The practice has worked for private clients and developers all over the UK and in Japan, Russia, the USA, Morocco, Germany and Kazakhstan. The work includes spacious country houses, luxury homes on the prestige estates at Wentworth and St. Georges Hill, museums, restaurants, theatres, schools, a golf club and modifications to important historic buildings. The design philosophy combines a deep sympathy for traditional design and building methods, with a full understanding of energy strategies and construction management. The practice works closely with other professionals and experienced craftsmen to achieve low-energy buildings of real quality within predetermined budgets.

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