Charles Robert Cockerell, Architect in Time by Bordeleau Anne

Author:Bordeleau, Anne
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Ltd
Published: 2014-02-28T16:00:00+00:00

4.3 C.R. Cockerell, Design No. 2, Cambridge University Library, 1829, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge (CUL ADD. 9272/4/14). Reproduced by kind permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library

To add yet another layer of temporal complexity, Cockerell conceived the Cambridge University Library as an unfolding experience of fragments he had himself measured and encountered at home and abroad. In presenting his scheme, he acknowledged different parts of his design as quoting from other buildings, from the Temple of Nerva to Wren’s Trinity Library. More concretely, the order intended for the library was the peculiar Ionic order Cockerell had studied at Bassae during his Grand Tour expedition. The volutes of the capitals are angled and repeated on each side, which Cockerell believed must have been done to create a variety of effects as users moved about the temple. Cockerell favoured the Bassae Ionic explicitly for its consideration of the visitor’s movements. In Cambridge, the Bassae Ionic order would have accompanied readers as they moved round and round the four wings of the library, whether at the main level or on the upper gallery.16

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