| Description | Hardback black sketchbook with personalised blue stamp on the inside front cover. Containing sketches, notes, and designs particularly towards the commission, 'From the Dark Cave' (Henrietta House, London. 1992). Including drawings, maquettes, stone and wood carvings, friezes, railway sleeper carvings, assemblages, site-specific installations, freestanding and serial installations, presentation methodologies and sequences. Imagery including rocky bases, classical, industrial ('The Pit Head') and military architectures ('The Castle'); Italian, Greek, Eastern and Asian architectures, funerary and tomb architecture and sculpture, pillboxes, architectural ruins, obelisks, monumental plinths and bases, mountains, caves ('The Dark Cave'), standing stones, pre-historic architecture ('Cromlech' related to Kits Coty House), triumphal arches, observatories ('The Observatory'), temples ('Temple at Euston'), pyramids ('Hawksmoor's Pyramid'), tents and huts ('Primitive Hut'), sketched profile of Henrietta House - Eastern and Southern elevations ('The Engine House' and 'The Senate House') and Western and Southern elevations ('Kits Coty' and 'Primitive Hut'). Smith also references 'Reculver', 'Pagoda at Kew', 'Rufford. 1/. Peterborough or V & A. 2/. 3 Bridges. 3/. Pier & Ocean. 4/. Last Rays For an English Rose. 5/. Vespers. 'Imagined Journeys'. |
| Notes | Information from Clare Rowe: These are sketches towards the commission, 'From the Dark Cave', Henrietta House , London (1992). The original drawings and maquettes are held at the Royal Institute of British Architecture (R.I.B.A.), London. Sketches towards commission for frieze for the underpass at St. Chads, Birmingham. |