Tim Rawle is an English architectural photographer and writer. He is best known for his photographs of buildings in

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, England.

Biography

Tim Rawle was born in

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. After studying fine art and graphic design at

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and at the

Central School of Art The Central School of Art and Design was a public school of fine and applied arts in London, England. It offered foundation and degree level courses. It was established in 1896 by the London County Council as the Central School of Arts and Cra ...

and Design, London, he read architecture at

Downing College, Cambridge Downing College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge and currently has around 650 students. Founded in 1800, it was the only college to be added to Cambridge University between 1596 and 1869, and is often described as the olde ...

, continuing his education at the

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, where he was Caldicott Scholar. He first came to attention with the publication of his book ''Cambridge Architecture'' in 1985. Besides providing the text and the photographs for this venture he also designed the book. The ''Daily Telegraph'' described it as "an astonishingly comprehensive book . . . a unique and valuable record". A revised edition was brought out by

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in 1993. In 1987 he provided the photography and design for Cinzia Maria Sicca's ''Committed to Classicism: The Building of Downing College, Cambridge''. The following year he was commissioned to design a new pictorial book on the National Portrait Gallery's collection as well as a small guide to the NPG's outstation at

Bodelwyddan Castle Bodelwyddan Castle ( cy, Castell Bodelwyddan), close to the village of Bodelwyddan, near Rhyl, Denbighshire in Wales, was built around 1460 by the Humphreys family of Anglesey as a manor house. It was associated with the Williams-Wynn family fo ...

, North Wales. Paperback ; US cloth edition (

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) ; In 1991, he set up a small business called "The Cambridge Portfolio" to publish calendars, diaries, greetings cards and postcards featuring his photographs of Cambridge buildings and Cambridge town and gown. He did the photography and design for the official guide to

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. For a period spanning several years he produced prospectuses for many Cambridge colleges and independent schools in south-east England. In 2005 he published the book ''

'' (

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). In his review in ''CAM'', the university magazine, Peter Richards wrote: "At the heart of the book lies a fascinating exploration of seven hundred years of University architecture . . . This is, quite simply, the best introduction to Cambridge ever published." The Howard Foundation commissioned Rawle to be the author and photographer of a new book on Downing College published in 2015 and described by the ''Georgian'' as a "well-researched architectural history" with "exceptional photographs". Book entitled ''A Classical Adventure: The Architectural History of Downing College Cambridge'' (). Review in the ''Georgian'', spring 2016. Rawle was appointed a Fellow Commoner of Downing College, Cambridge in 1987.Downing College website

Bibliography

* ''Cambridge Architecture'' (1st ed., sponsored by

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) London: Trefoil Books, 1985. 224 pp. ; paperback * ''Committed to Classicism: The Building of Downing College, Cambridge''. With Cinzia Maria Sicca (main author), Edward Powell, Charles Harpum (contrib.) Cambridge: Downing College, Cambridge, 1987. 228 pp. ; paperback * ''Cambridge Architecture'' (2nd ed.) London: André Deutsch, 1993. 240 pp. * ''

'' (1st ed.). London: Frances Lincoln, 2005. 192 pp. * ''Classic Cambridge: 100 Photographs by Tim Rawle''. Cambridge: The Cambridge Portfolio, 2012. 128 pp. * ''The Chapel of

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''. With

Martin Kemp Martin John Kemp (born 10 October 1961) is an English musician and actor, best known as the bassist in the new wave band Spandau Ballet and for his role as Steve Owen in ''EastEnders''. He is the younger brother of Gary Kemp, who is also a ...

(author). London: Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers, 2014. 88 pp. * '' A Classical Adventure: The Architectural History of Downing College, Cambridge''. Tim Rawle (author), Tim Rawle and Louis Sinclair (photographers), John Adamson (editor). Cambridge: Oxbridge Portfolio, 2015, 200 pp. * ''

''. Tim Rawle (author and photographer), John Adamson (editor) (new edition with a foreword by William Bortrick). Cambridge: Oxbridge Portfolio, 2016, 204 pp.

References

External links

Tim Rawle's official site

The Cambridge Portfolio site

The Oxbridge Portfolio site
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