The RIBA archive and me: Marcus Binney

By and Marcus Binney Marcus Binney 2005-12-09T00:00:00

Mavisbank, near Edinburgh, designed by John Clerk and William Adam in the 18th century, as Marcus Binney and John Harris found it when they visited 25 years ago.

When I was studying art history at Cambridge, I was inspired by the RIBA archive and its curator at the time, John Harris. He had single-handedly grown it into the greatest collection of architectural drawings in the world.

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