The image library celebrates a breadth of creative work from the field of architecture, examining bodies of knowledge including processes of research, documentation and creative speculation that are primarily out of public view, illustrating the essential role of the image as an alternative account of architecture and the built-environments we inhabit as they change over time. 

Exploring the ephemera of architecture, The image library includes drawings that might have sparked a building’s life and photographs that record its final use. Workbooks depicting architect Pete Bossley’s daily acts of drawing over his five-decade long career and the enduring documentation of Christchurch’s urban landscape by photographer Tim J. Veling are shown alongside the speculative renderings of building adaptations by architect Raphaela Rose. 

The image library also includes rare images of Canterbury architecture from the archives of Lesley and Peter Beaven, and George Lucking, preserved for future access by local architects, their families and passionate supporters. (This exhibition has been made possible with the support of Te Kāhui Whaihanga NZIA Canterbury Branch, Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga, Common Architecture and Lesley Beaven.)

DETAILS

Samuel Hartnett, Raphaela Rose, Tim J. Veling, Pete Bossley, and archives of George Lucking and Lesley and Peter Beaven, The Image Library: Accounts of Architecture

Objectspace Ōtautahi, Sir Miles Warren Gallery
65 Cambridge Terrace, Central Christchurch, 4 July – 25 August

IMAGE:

Samuel Hartnett, Ex Libris: Will's Hands, 2018, courtesy of Anna Miles Gallery