2012 Winners 30 years of partnership 19
Grand Award for Architecture
967 Book: Solar Topography, the Farnese Gardens, Rome Brass and paper Ben Cowd, Tomas Hopkins, Sara Shafiei
After reviewing the work, the jury selected Book: Solar Topography, Te Farnese Agrdens, Rome by Ben Cowd, Tomas Hopkins and Sara Shafiei as the worthy winners of the £10,000 Architecture Prize at the Royal Academy Summer Show. AJ deputy editor Rory Olcayto said ‘It is far and away this year’s very best in show’. Constructed from 600 sheets of laser-cut paper,
Detail shots of this year’s winner – a model within a book
which are bound together, the model can be read like a book. Te book shows the Solar Topography at two scales on facing pages. Te first plan shows the ‘wing’ in detail, positioned on the corner of Palatine Hill and the Farnese Gardens; the
second shows the project in relation to the city of Rome as well as the Colosseum. An exquisite model of the ancient capital’s
downtown, the laser-cut book details the contoured landscape of Palatine Hill, picked out with mathematical precision. Te judges drew similarities between this winning piece and Joseph Gandy’s cutaway perspective drawing of the Bank of England as a ruin, exhibited by John Soane in 1830. With some of the strangeness of Gandy’s vision, the judges highlighted the ‘intricacy and richness’ of the piece.
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