ABSTRACT
The funding enabled not only the digitisation of the drawings, but also the development of an exhibition that attempted to capture Vaughan-Richards and his family’s life in 1960s Lagos. This chapter discusses the challenges of architectural drawing conservation and digitisation in Africa; the context and development of the Alan Vaughan-Richard Archive exhibition in Edinburgh. Vaughan-Richards was trained in England and initially worked in Northern Iraq with the Iraqi Development Board. The chapter seeks to review the project’s objectives and its ultimate impact on different audiences. An initial British Academy Small Projects grant was received for the project in late 2010: the sum of £7,450. It was a small beginning but enough to enable travel to Lagos by the author and Hannah Le Roux from the University of the Witwatersrand, who had been instrumental in identifying and connecting with Vaughan-Richards’s daughter Remi, who is the guardian of the estate.
