C O N T E X T 1 7 4 : D E C E M B E R 2 0 2 2 37 searching and earnest recording. As architects, being able to quickly search for a building’s history and how it may have looked in an earlier iteration is enormously useful. The drawings could be used when writing heritage statements and in support of planning applications, while also enabling a body of projects to be collated to better understand local character, helping to build resilience against increasingly homogenised and global architectural culture. Some of the drawing records were by some talented architects, who may or may not have ever been particularly commercially successful but were instrumental in shaping local landscape. Designs for Florence Treloar School by the architect Guy Maxwell Aylwin (1889–1968) Overleaf: Sections of a design for a house at Shamley Green, Surrey, drawn in 1886 by Philip Webb (1831–1915)
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