Timeline

ANALOGUE

1947Richard Bruce Nasmyth Bryant – born.
1948Richard’s father, Richard Hugh, wins – Great Western Railways photo award.
1958Richard is given his fathers old camera, a Praktica.
1966Architecture course – Kingston upon Thames.
1974Photo led final thesis: Palladio and the Veneto. (35mm)
1975Worked in an architects office.
1975/6Regular contract to photograph a hole in the grounds at Knightsbridge Barracks by Sir Basil Spence gives income security to give up job in the architects office and not pursue professional practice.
1976First commission from the Architects’ Journal (AJ) (35mm & 6x9cm) becomes a regular contributor and has the second ever colour cover.
Wembley Conference Centre by Richard Siefert – demolished 2006 (The first AJ colour cover by Richard Einzig).
1980Untimely death of photographer Richard Einzig.
1981After Einzigs death James Stirling, Peter Aldington and others ‘try out’ several photographers. (5×4 / 6×7 / 6×9 some 35mm)
1982Eva Jiricna apartment for Joseph.
The Soane Museum published in Interiors (before it became the World of Interiors) written and facilitated by the then Architectural Review (AR) interiors editor Jonathan Glancey.
Picked up by two New York magazines, House & Garden and the Magazine Antiques, both become regular clients.
1983The Thematic /Cosmic House, Charles Jencks
Sri Lanka – the work of Geoffrey Bawa.
1984Staatsgalerie Stuttgart – James Stirling & Michael Wilford.
1985Hong Kong Shanghai Bank – Foster + Partners
Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt – Richard Meier – his first building outside the US. Led to more commissions in Europe for RM.
1986Flown to LA by Progressive Architecture, NY, for cover story on Arata Isozaki, his first commission outside Japan. The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Los Angeles US.
1986The Lloyds building London UK, Richard Rogers Partnership – 6 different international magazines commission.
1986New Architecture: Foster Rogers Stirling Exhibition The Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK.
1987Zaha Hadid first built commission, furniture in Cathcart Road, London UK, shot for Progressive Architecture NY.
1987Three months in US for Gwathmey Siegel.
1988Royalton Hotel NY for Blueprint – wins D&AD award. Firsts hotel by Philippe Starck
Mount Vernon.US
New architecture in Japan for German magazine Ambiente – leading to many years of international commissions for Ambiente.
1989Frank Gehry first built project in Europe – Vitra Museum, Germany
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, Canada.
1990New Moderns. Book of international residential interiors written by Jonathan Glancey.
– our rebellion against the overwhelming influence at the time of Colefax & Fowler!
1991First photographer to be awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Institute of British Architects (Hon.FRIBA)
Site Work exhibition – Photographers Gallery, London. UK.
1993Zaha Hadid first major built work – Vitra Fire Station, Germany
Living Museums. Book of international historic houses.
Supreme Court Israel – Ada and Ram Karmi.
1996TV programme: The Pier : Building Pictures directed by Sue Judd.
1997Tadao Ando – first project in the US – House in Chicago for Fred Eychaner
Exhibit in the Venice Biennale.
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Spain – Frank Gehry
1998Honorary Doctorate in Design from Kingston University.
1999Royal Mail commission to create a first class architecture stamp for the millennium.
2000/3More projects for Domus with editors Deyan Sudjic & Simon Esterson includes Teatro Armani by Tadao Ando – leading to commissions from Armani.
2003Scarpa Canova Possagno Italy – book with Stefan Buzas
Pentagram commission for Antonio Citterios project for Bulgari Milan.
Leads to many years of international commissions from Pentagram.
2006Book commission over two years for Rizzoli NY – ‘London’. (Move to digital)

DIGITAL

2006Barajas Airport T5 Madrid Spain Rogers Stirk & Harbour
2007LILAS Serpentine Pavilion Zaha Hadid Architects
2008London Book – Exhibition Somerset House, London, UK.
2009Armani Hotel & Residences Dubai
The Maxxi Rome Italy, Zaha Hadid Architects
2010Mathaf Doha Qatar :First museum dedicated to Modern Art in the Arab world.
Jean-François Bodin architects
2011Gucci Museum Florence Italy
2013/14Book : Building with History : Norman Foster, Foster + Partners / Prestel Verlag, London
2015Book : Castelvecchio Museum, Carlo Scarpa, Verona Italy
2016Blavatnik Herzog & de Meuron : Switch House Tate Modern UK
2017Scarpa projects in the Veneto Italy
2018American Embassy , London UK Keiran Timberlake Architects
2019Personal & book projects
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts at the University of East Anglia, UK
Foster + Partners
2021Innovation Studio, Arts University Bournemouth,UK – Crab Studio
2023Design House, Roche Court, UK – Stephen Marshall Architects
2024Muraba Veil and Muraba Studio, with Pentagram, Dubai. RCR Arquitectes.
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