Publications
Julian Bicknell
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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