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John Harris—an architectural historian and eagle-eyed connoisseur—has died, aged 90

A scholar of Inigo Jones and William Chambers, Harris mounted landmark exhibitions based on the RIBA drawings collection that he so radically transformed

Simon Swynfen Jervis
23 May 2022
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A focus of merriment and laughter: Harris, curator of the RIBA Drawings Collection, in 1980 Photo: RIBApix
Paul Cezannearchive
30 September 2001

Books: Adam classicism to Tinseltown Rococo

Something for everyone: “animalcules”, Baltic art, the Cecils, CD-Roms, Cézanne, Chinese furniture, Clement Greenberg decadence, Holbein, Japanese design, Kahn, Leonardo, Millais, Modernism, Palladio, Tiffany silver, terracotta sculpture

James Malpas
Architecturearchive
1 February 2001

One of Britain’s leading architectural historians has serious doubts about the Victoria & Albert Museum’s plan to be a “National Centre for Architecture"

Do modern architects use historic architectural material?

John Harris