Imagining Otherwise Captions

Aerolande 2589.01
Aerolande, ‘Essai sur l’habitation à l’echelle industrielle. recherche d’un degre d’industrialisation a travers 3 programmes d’habitation’ [A Study of Housing on an Industrial Scale. Exploring a degree of industrialisation through three housing programmes], 1966. Print, 300 x 1670 mm.

Ambasz 3572
Ambasz, Emilio; Mack, Mark (draughtsman), Georgia Community, c.1977. Watercolour over sepia print base, 435 x 742 mm.

Archigram 3189
Archigram, Amazing Archigram 4: ‘Zoom’ issue, 1964. Imprint, 220 x 169 mm.

Archizoom 2738.8.1
Archizoom Associati, Discoursi per immagini [Discourses for images], 1969. Colour print. Read more.

Aubert 2554
Aubert, Jean (Aerolande), L’Escargot et la Tortue [Snail and Tortoise], Design for two inflatable exhibition pavilions, 1969. Pen and ink on thick trace, 320 x 473 mm.

Barroso and Ramos 3477.4.4.4.
Barroso, Fernando and Ramos, Mário, Organizaçāo Insurrecional do Espaço [The Insurrectional Organisation of Space], March 1975. Pencil on tracing, 300 x 422 mm. Read more.

Barroso and Ramos 3477.3.1
Barroso, Fernando and Ramos, Mário, Organizaçāo Insurrecional do Espaço (The Insurrectional Organisation of Space), March 1975. Photo-collage on board, 78 x 215 mm. Read more.

Brasini 1443
Brasini, Armando, Foro Imperiale Germanico, [Germanic Imperial Forum] Rome, c.1937. Pencil on tracing paper, 570 x 1000 mm.

Branzi 2738.9.1 + 2738.9.1
Andrea Branzi/Archizoom Associati, No-Stop City, c.1969–72. Film overlay, 298 x 210 mm. DMC 2738.9.2. Read more.

Chernikhov 1364
Chernikhov, Iakov Georgievich, Drawing from the ‘Architectural Romanticism’ cycle, c.1920–40. Blue, red and black ink, 100 x 100 mm.

Constant 1472.11
Constant, (Constant Anton Nieuwenhuys), Frontispiece to New Babylon, 1963. Pen and ink, 115 x 200 mm. Read more.

Cook 3910
Cook, Peter, Arcadian City, 1978. Imprint, 297 x 215 mm.

Cook 3909
Cook, Peter, ‘Homage to the Tottenham Court Road’, Bloch City: View Down Middle Stave/Street, 1983. Imprint with hand colouring, 210 x 297 mm.

Couëlle 2061.14
Couëlle, Jacques, Study no.33, c.1987. Black and green felt-tip pen on tracing paper, 298 x 208 mm. Couëlle became known for his ‘troglodyte’ houses, which sit somewhere between architecture and sculpture.

Disney 3720.3
Disney, Walt, Future World, Spaceship Earth, c.1982. Print, 920 x 610 mm.

Du Pasquier 3878
Nathalie du Pasquier, Città, 1984. Printed in green ink, 725 x 505 mm.

Eisenman 1280
Eisenman, Peter, House VI, 1972. Black ink, coloured ink, and adhesive vinyl on mylar, 609 x 609 mm. Read More.

George Elliot 2606
Elliot, George, The Imperial Palace of God, 1856. Pen, ink and wash on wove paper, linen backed, 668 x 1010 mm. Read more.

Enfantin 1700
Enfantin, Barthélemy Prosper, Cité Militaire, 1849. Watercolour, ink and pencil on paper, mounted, 295 x 350 mm.

Fontaine 1522
Fontaine, Pierre François Léonard, Project for a National Cemetery, 1785. Pen and black ink with grey wash over a black pencil sketch, 197 x 900 mm.

Friedman 1471
Friedman, Yona, ‘Ville Spatiale’ concept: wooden structural study, 1958–1959. 200 x 510 x 260 mm.

Friedman 1500
Friedman, Yona, ‘Ville Spatiale’ concept: ‘hoop’ wire structural study, 1958–1959. 180 x 600 x 600 mm.

Fuller 3706
Fuller, Richard Buckminster, Dymaxion Air Ocean World Map, 1954. Print, 570 x 890 mm. DMC 3706.

Goff 2953.10
Goff, Bruce Alonzo; Doug Harris (draughtsman), Dewlen House / Aparture, 1956. Print, 451 x 468 mm. Read more.

Gold 2929.1
Gold, Michael; Karakiewicz, Justina, Gateway to Mecca, 1979. Crayon, pastel & pencil on board, 475 x 700 mm. Read more.

Gowan & Stirling 2355
James Gowan & James Stirling, Expandable House studies, 1956. Pencil on wove paper, 139 x 335 mm. Read more.

Gowan 3347.1
Gowan, James, Imaginary Projects, 1971. Pen and ink on wove paper, 208 x 298 mm.

Gowan 3347.7
Gowan, James, Imaginary Projects, undated. Ink and coloured crayon on verso of fragment of printed plan, 105 x 113 mm.

Gowan 2658
Gowan, James, Building in the form of a barking dog, Millbank, 1977. Page from Sketchbook 7.

Haus Rucker 2761
Haus Rucker Co., Changer, 1972. Hand coloured lithograph, 600 x 749 mm.

Haus Rucker 1980
Haus Rucker Co., Cover installation project, Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany, 1971. Pencil on paper and photographs, 598 x 420 mm

Haus Rucker 1982
Haus Rucker Co., Cover installation project, Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany, 1971. Collage, 293 x 394 mm.

Hejduk 3578
Hejduk, John, 13 Watchtowers of Cannaregio, 1979. Watercolour and gouache on board, 227 x 704 mm. Read more.

Hejduk 3390
Hejduk, John, 13 Watchtowers of Cannaregio, 1979. Crayon, magic marker and watercolour on paper, laid on board, 215 x 75 mm. Read more.

Hollein 2490.18
Hollein, Hans, City, Communication Interchange, 1962. Pencil, pen and black ink on wove paper, 329 x 418 mm. DMC 2490.18. Read more.

Isozaki 3580
Isozaki, Arata, City in the Air (Clusters in the Air), 1960/1991. Silkscreen, 90 x 208 mm.

La Pietra 2243.1
La Pietra, Ugo, Uomouovosfera, 1969. Pen and ink on trace, 430 x 445 mm. DMC 2243.1.

La Pietra 2243.2
La Pietra, Ugo, Uomouovosfera, 1969–70. Photomechanical print from montage on wove paper, 180 x 235 mm. DMC 2243.2. Read more.

Lampitt 3884
Lampitt, Ronald & John Pudney, The Ideal City, Illustrated Magazine, 17 February, 1951. Imprint.

Lapin 3215.2
Lapin, Leonhard, Homage a Tatlin: Anti-international Monument, 1979. Print, 398 x 342 mm.

Lapin 3216.3
Lapin, Leonhard, House-Machine IV, 1974. Ink and gouache on paper, 419 x 398 mm. Read more.

Loewy 2763.2
Loewy, Raymond, Habitability Study, Shuttle Orbiter for NASA Manned Spacecraft Centre, 1969–1975. Pen, ink and felt pen in thin wove paper, 396 x 545 mm.

Lovag 1596
Lovag, Antti, Une structure de rencontre et de réflexion [a structure for discussion and relfection], 1968. Painted wood, metal, paper, 220 x 450 x 450 mm. Antti Lovag described himself as an ‘habitologue’, a student of the unconscious patterns and drift of human movement and gesture.

Mies 1295
Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, Glass Skyscraper Project, 1922. Vintage or early gelatin silver print on matte paper, 383 x 284 mm.

Minozzi 1235
Minozzi, Flaminio Innocenzo, Maison d’un Cosmopolite, 1788. Pen and sepia ink with brown wash, 169 x 234 mm.

Moll 3633.1
Moll, Johann Jakob, Une ville de cent mille ames, qui réunit tous les agrémens et avantages que l’on peut désirer [A city of one hundred thousand souls, offering all the pleasures and advantages one could wish for], 1801. Pen, ink, printed collage, watercolour, laid on linen, 757 x 1120 mm.

Moll 3633.2
Moll, Johann Jakob, Une ville de cent mille ames, qui réunit tous les agrémens et avantages que l’on peut désirer [A city of one hundred thousand souls, offering all the pleasures and advantages one could wish for], 1801. Engraving, 530 x 705 mm.

Natalini 2141.52 + Natalini 2141.53
Natalini, Adolfo, sketches for the Continuous Monument: New New York, 1969. Pages from Sketchbook 12.

OMA 3151.5
OMA; Koolhaas, Rem; Zenghelis, Zoe; Zenghelis, Elia; Vriesendorp, Madelon, Exodus, or The Voluntary Prisoners of Architecture, 1972. Pen, ink photo-collage in colour and black-and-white, on silver backing, 295 x 418 mm.

OMA 3000.1
OMA; Koolhaas, Rem; Vriesendorp, Madelon, Welfare Palace Hotel, Sunken Medusa Raft, 1975-6. Acrylic on paper, in original frame, 780 x 1140 mm. DMC 3000.1. Read more.

OMA 3000.11
OMA; Koolhaas, Rem; Vriesendorp, Madelon, Medusa Raft, 1978. Screenprint. DMC 3000.11. Read more.

Parent 3830.38
Parent, Claude, Le demi soleil, city in the landscape, 1974. Felt pen on paper, 297 x 210 mm.

Pétrovitch 4092.1
Pétrovitch, L., View of a modernist district, c.1930. Graphite, ink, and ink wash on paper, 183 x 412 mm.

Pichler 2367
Pichler, Walter, Study sketches for the Underground City, c.1960–64. Pen, ink and photo collage on wove paper, 300 x 350 mm. DMC 2367.

Pichler + Abraham 3681
Pichler, Walter and Abraham, Raimund, House in Oggau, Burgenland, 1963. Pencil on paper, 420 x 665 mm.

Price 3182.2.10b
Price, Cedric, First Giant Space Mobile in the World (Fun Palace Project), 1959-61. Imprint, 360 x 595 mm. Read more.

Price 1092
Price, Cedric, Battersea Power Station, c.1983-90. Red pen and red and purple crayon on sketchbook page, 203 x 250 mm.

Rossi 4049
Rossi, Aldo, La Città Analoga [The Analogous City], 1974. Photogravure, 1075 x 1075 mm. Read more.

Reed 3985
Shinn, Reed, City of the Future, 1967–68. Mixed media on thick grey board, 500 x 652 mm.

Sive 2741.5
Sive, André & Prouvé, Henri, Studies for a demonstration project for ‘maisons industrielles’ (factory-built houses) of the Service des chantiers d’expérience de MRU (Ministry of Reconstruction and Urbanism), 1950–52. Ink and coloured pencil on tracing paper, 330 x 410 mm.

Siza 2111.65
Siza, Álvaro, Évora Malagueira Cupula, c.1978. Pencil on trace, red pen, 295mm x 416mm. Unbuilt half dome for the Quinta da Malagueira estate.

Smithson 3371
Smithson, Alison and Peter, Golden Lane Housing Project, London, UK, 1951–52. Original collage, photograph, pen, ink gouache, 285 x 320 mm.

Soleri 2028
Soleri, Paolo, Arcology: the City in the Image of Man, 1969. Imprint, 360 x 625 mm.

Soleri 2072r.
Soleri, Paolo, Cosanti Foundation, 1963. Print, 465 x 903 mm. DMC 2027r.

Superstudio 2937
Superstudio, The Continuous Monument: New New York, 1969. Colour print, 695 x 985 mm.

Superstudio 2930
Superstudio, The Continous Monument: Florence as a Field of Maize, 1971. Photocollage, 685 x 885 mm.

UFO 3663
UFO, L’Ingegnosa conquista della montagna della tigre [The Ingenious Conquest of Tiger Mountain], 1974. Print, 498 x 702 mm.

Unknown English 2265
Unknown English, Topiary tree house, c.1818. Pen and ink on thin wove paper, 127 x 185 mm. DMC 2265.

Vaudoyer 1782
Vaudoyer, Antoine Laurent Thomas, Maison d’un Cosmopolite [House for a Cosmopolitan], 1782. Black ink, pencil and black and grey wash, 115 x 242 mm. DMC 1460. Read more.

Wright 3353
Wright, Frank Lloyd, Broadacre City, 1934–58. Print, 462 x 727 mm.