A touch of the finger now sufficed to fix an event for an unlimited period of time. The camera gave the moment a posthumous shock, as it were. walter benjamin
Lethaby Building, 2011
2012 1908
Foyer Foyer of Central School of Arts and Crafts
Metal workshop Gymnasium
Principal’s office Curator & Director’s office
Staff cafe Lecture theatre
Stairs hallway Stairs hallway of London Day Training College
Jewellery workshop I Chasing & repousse, plaster casting
Jewellery workshop II Large silver workers
Weaving workshop Men’s common room
Textiles studio Women’s common room
Product design studio Printing studio
Architecture studio Wood engraving & colour blocks
Print & letterpress workshops Forwarding, sewing & washing studios
Ancillary store Corridor of Central School of Arts and Crafts
Graphic design common room Reading & general common room
Woodwork workshop Drawing & pattern design
Plastic workshop Criticism classrooms
Main staircase Main staircase of Central School of Arts and Crafts
Screen printing workshop Embroidery & weaving, life modelling
Screen printing workshop Embroidery & weaving, life modelling
Etching workshop Decorative plaster
Graphic design common room Nature study room
Photography studio Art studio
Middle staircase Main staircase of London Day Training College
Fourth floor corridor Limit between the buildings of Training College and Central School
Computer room Science laboratory
Moving image department Life painting (men)
Typography studio Life painting (men)
Main staircase Main staircase of Central School of Arts and Crafts
Graphic design studios Design for stencil, glass, mosaic etc.
Canteen St John the Evangelist church
Archive
1955, Book Making, Second Floor
1939, Life Painting, Fourth Floor
Lecture Theare, Lethaby Gallery and Main Staircase
1941, War Demage
Credits and Acknowledgments
I would like to thank Graham Simner and Sandra Frederick for putting me in touch with the new owners of the Lethaby building. Volkan Reisoglu and Samir Dewan for letting me go in the building twice to take the pictures. Jet for helping me in the whole process, from building visits to technical and conceptual advises. Everyone from the CSM Photography department, who helped me with the cameras, lenses and other technical stuff. Paulus Dreibholz and Gary Wallis for encouraging me in doing this project and also for all the great and very useful feedback. Judy Lindsay for helping me with all the archive section of this book and also for giving me access to an amazing Lethaby building material. Pete Cooper from Ripping Image, for
All photographs in the first section of the book
printing this book and helping me to make it right.
© Renata Westenberger
I recognize that this project would not have been possible
All images in the Archive section
without all these people’s help.
© Central Saint Martins Museum and Study Collection