Hugh Pearman

The old ways

Classicism never really went away but it did become unfashionable. Three new exhibitions prove this is no longer the case

issue 28 October 2017

  • Measure Draw Build – work by George Saumarez Smith

    RIBA, until 26 November

  • Pablo Bronstein: Conservatism, or the long reign of pseudo-Georgian architecture

    RIBA, until 11 February 2018

  • Adam Nathaniel Furman: The Roman Singularity

    Sir John Soane’s Museum, until10 December

I’m sitting across a café table from a young man with a sheaf of drawings that have an archive look to them but are in fact brand new. His Jacob Rees-Mogg attire — well-cut chalk-stripe suit and immaculate tie — sets him apart from the others in the room, who are mostly architects and architectural fellow travellers like me.

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