Robert Bray: Six Designs for a Playboy Penthouse Pad
12 May 2016
Robert Bray: Six Designs for a Playboy Penthouse Pad12 May 2016
Robert Bray (1940), Drawing of Living Area in which ‘you are standing in the foyer of our duplex penthouse, looking toward the living-room area …. In front of the fireplace…
Postmodern Australia: Robert Pearce’s Drawings for Edmond and Corrigan
1 February 2022
Postmodern Australia: Robert Pearce’s Drawings for Edmond and Corrigan1 February 2022
Writing in Cities of Hope (1993), the historian Conrad Hamann relates that, on mentioning to Robert Venturi the name of the Australian postmodernist architect Peter Corrigan, the first words from…
Haunted: Robert Smithson’s ‘My House is a Decayed House’
18 March 2021
Haunted: Robert Smithson’s ‘My House is a Decayed House’18 March 2021
Robert Smithson (1938–1973), My House is a Decayed House, 1962. Photo-collage, pen, ink, gouache and watercolour on paper, 610 × 455 mm. DMC 2975. The following text is excerpted from…
The ‘indispensable ingredients of sublimity’: Smirke and Papworth’s Designs for the Wellington Testimonial
20 November 2023
The ‘indispensable ingredients of sublimity’: Smirke and Papworth’s Designs for the Wellington Testimonial20 November 2023
…2001, the Irish Architectural Archive (IAA) acquired at auction an item described in the catalogue as ‘Architectural Drawing, possibly by Robert Smirke, of Wellington Monument, Phoenix Park’. The unsigned, undated…
DMJ – From Landscape to Mapscape: Robert Smithson’s Maps
15 November 2022
DMJ – From Landscape to Mapscape: Robert Smithson’s Maps15 November 2022
…articles from both DMJ 1: The Geological Imagination and DMJ 2: Drawing Instruments/Instrumental Drawings. The Geological Imagination will be published in print in early 2023. Robert Smithson, A Surd View…
Robert Bray: Design for a Playboy Duplex Penthouse, 1970
17 January 2023
Robert Bray: Design for a Playboy Duplex Penthouse, 197017 January 2023
…wear nought but a see-through gown. Robert Bray (1940), Drawing of Living Area, featured in Playboy, January 1970. Gouache on board, 393 × 577 mm. DMC 2640.4. ‘Christ, not in…
Robert Mylne
1 April 2016
Robert Mylne1 April 2016
Robert Mylne (1733–1811), alternative design for the East Façade of Durham Park, 1780. Pen, ink and wash on paper, 430 × 325 mm. DMC 2597.1. There are two sons of…
Architects at Play (2023) – Review
15 May 2023
Architects at Play (2023) – Review15 May 2023
David Malaud, Architects at Play Exhibition, Pavilion Sicli, Geneva, 27 April–11 June 2023. Photo © Guillaume Robert. What is the reason for playing if not to weave relationships with the…
Behind the Lines 11
12 August 2019
Behind the Lines 1112 August 2019
Robert Schnebbelie, View of the Picadilly street entrance, with figures, Burlington Arcade, London, 1827. Black ink and coloured washes on paper, 215 × 275 mm. DMC 1643. Robert Schnebbelie peered…
Robert Venturi: The difficult whole
22 January 2016
Robert Venturi: The difficult whole22 January 2016
Robert Venturi (1925–2018), Facade Study for Gordon Wu Hall, Butler College, Princeton, 1981. Marker pen ink on trace, 304 × 645 mm. DMC 2041. Lying on the border between an…
Robert Adam: The Long Gallery at Syon
13 May 2022
Robert Adam: The Long Gallery at Syon13 May 2022
– Stephen Astley, Adriano Aymonino, Markus Lähteenmäki and Frances Sands
On 18 December 2015, Frances Sands and Stephen Astley took out two leather-bound volumes from the Robert Adam Archive and laid them on the long table in the first-floor library…
Robert Maxwell: The Letter, the Lost Sketchbook and the Lecture
23 September 2022
Robert Maxwell: The Letter, the Lost Sketchbook and the Lecture23 September 2022
– Editors
These three sketches are from a sketchbook that Robert Maxwell used while studying at the Liverpool School of Architecture in 1944. They are reproduced here to mark the publication of…
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