Tag: architectural storytelling

Beyond architectural language is architectural storytelling, which I do here on The Diary of an Improvateur.

When I received the Rizzoli book Grand Bordeaux Châteaux, I was bowled over by how gracefully modern architects had added contemporary additions to the grand neoclassical châteaux in Bordeaux. The architectural storytelling took off when I found out the intrepid Stendhal had visited one of the wineries and I tapped his travel writing about touring the area to offer an entertaining look at Bordeaux in a time when it took seventy-two hours to travel there from Paris by stagecoach!

For the Stendhal had visited, the storytelling hinged on chivalry, which was such an important subject during the Tudor Era. I continued the exploration in Stendhal had visited, which looked at jousting through the Tudor King’s eyes. Henry VIII inherited his predilection for sport honestly, as his father, Henry VII, saw no need to devote any funds to supporting a court poet; instead, he invested in a state-of-the-art games-and-gambling complex at Richmond Palace that held facilities for jousting, bowling, tennis and archery.