View of the Druker Design Gallery at the GSD. Between the concrete supporting columns are pairs of plaster casts of column capitals from the abbey of Cluny, raised on deep blue pedestals. The view down the gallery recalls the rhythmic alternation supporting elements of the nave of a Romanesque church.
Kenneth Conant's plan of the basilica of Santiago de Compostela and it's adjacent structures, 1924. Ink and tempera on paper.
A constellation of Conant's drawings reconstructing the interior of Cluny as of the mid-12th century (Cluny III).
Kenneth Conant, Reconstruction of the tympanum of Cluny III, undated. Graphite, gouache, and colour pencil on paper.
Thoroughly enchanted by thd exhibition of Kenneth Conant's work at the Harvard GSD - including some of his original drawings! #MAA2025