1295 texts about architecture in drawings, models and photography. 773 writers on 870 architects.
Alberto Ponis, The London Years
14.12.2023
Alberto Ponis, The London Years14.12.2023
…Lasdun overlooking Stazzo Pulcheddu, Sardinia. Photo by Alberto Ponis, late 1970s. Courtesy of Annarita and Alberto Ponis. Fig.13. Alberto Ponis. Sketchbook page 63, 1962-67. DMC 3507.63. But despite the move…
A Short History of Alberto Ponis on the Sardinian Coast
15.11.2021
A Short History of Alberto Ponis on the Sardinian Coast15.11.2021
…of Casabella-Continuità, published in 1964, featuring the Italian coastlines. Alberto Ponis (1933), Casa Heintzschel, Punta Sardegna, 1986. Colour print, 200 x 300 mm. DMC 2837.5. Alberto Ponis (1933), site plan,…
Alberto Ponis on Casa Scalesciani
27.10.2021
Alberto Ponis on Casa Scalesciani27.10.2021
…2918.29v. Alberto Ponis (1933), Casa Scalesciani, 1974. Pencil, pen and ink on squared paper, 296 x 210 mm. DMC 2918.30r. Alberto Ponis (1933), Casa Scalesciani, 1974. Pencil, pen and ink…
Alberto Ponis: Casa Scalesciani
09.08.2023
Alberto Ponis: Casa Scalesciani09.08.2023
…on Sardinia, were made for the exhibition ‘Drawing Landscape: Alberto Ponis,’ exhibited at Tongji University, Shanghai, 10 April—20 May 2023. https://vimeo.com/820581337 Alberto Ponis (1933–), elevation, Casa Scalesciani, Sardinia, 1977. Pencil…
Alberto Ponis: Pathways
12.07.2023
Alberto Ponis: Pathways12.07.2023
…on Sardinia, were made for the exhibition ‘Drawing Landscape: Alberto Ponis,’ exhibited at Tongji University, Shanghai, 10 April—20 May 2023. https://vimeo.com/820191605 Alberto Ponis (1933), Yacht Club Path, 1965. Coloured inks over print…
Alberto Ponis: Studio di Yasmin
23.06.2023
Alberto Ponis: Studio di Yasmin23.06.2023
…on Sardinia, were made for the exhibition ‘Drawing Landscape: Alberto Ponis,’ exhibited at Tongji University, Shanghai, 10 April—20 May 2023. https://vimeo.com/820586937 Alberto Ponis, plan, Studio di Yasmin, 1971 (dated 1988)….
In the Archive: de la Fuente, Unknown, OMA, Ellwood and Ponis
15.02.2023
In the Archive: de la Fuente, Unknown, OMA, Ellwood and Ponis15.02.2023
…first thoughts and toward a more forensic tracing of hands, erasures, over-drawing, annotations and markups. As in the case of Alberto Ponis’ Yacht Club plan, which is a series of…
Alternative Histories: Flores i Prats Architects on Alberto Ponis
20.03.2019
Alternative Histories: Flores i Prats Architects on Alberto Ponis20.03.2019
Flores i Prats Architects, Alberto Ponis’ elevation of the Casa Scalesciani, 2018. Paper, 500 × 320 × 100 mm. Alberto Ponis (1933), elevation, Casa Scalesciani, Sardinia, 1977. Pencil and wash…
Alberto Ponis: Architecture and its tools
26.09.2020
Alberto Ponis: Architecture and its tools26.09.2020
26 September 2020 – 31 March 2021, Fondazione di Sardegna Curated by Paola Mura Exhibition poster. Exhibited on his home island of Sardinia, this exhibition charted Alberto Ponis’ development over…
Houses for Printing: A Microcosm of the World
21.02.2024
Houses for Printing: A Microcosm of the World21.02.2024
…in Los Angeles between 11 November 2023 – 4 February 2024, and curated by Sarah Hearne. Alberto Ponis (1933), Plan, Yacht Club Path, Punta Sardegna, Sardinia, 1965. Coloured ink over…
Cartographies of the Imagination
04.06.2021
Cartographies of the Imagination04.06.2021
– Kirsty Badenoch and Sayan Skandarajah
…that became Cartographies of the Imagination. Alberto Ponis – Yacht Club Path Alberto Ponis, Yacht Club Path, 1965. Coloured inks over print base on yellow paper, 365 × 1007 mm….
Living in Colour
17.09.2019
Living in Colour17.09.2019
…and precision that together with the irrational emotion of nature and art characterise the works of Ponis and make him a renowned architect and a great father.’ – Marta Ponis…
DMJ – Dialogues between Architecture And Granite in Punta Sardegna
20.01.2023
DMJ – Dialogues between Architecture And Granite in Punta Sardegna20.01.2023
Alberto Ponis, Plan for presentation, Casa Scalesciani, 1977. Pencil, felt pen and black ink on trace, 46.3 x 49.8cm. DMC 2918.2, Drawing Matter Collections. The stones are also premonitions, and…
Workshop with Kirsty Badenoch – 22 February 2025
31.01.2025
Workshop with Kirsty Badenoch – 22 February 202531.01.2025
…pleased to invite Kirsty Badenoch to lead the first event of our Public Programme in London. Based on the working drawings and design processes of the late Alberto Ponis and…
Yacht Club Path
02.08.2018
Yacht Club Path02.08.2018
Alberto Ponis, Yacht Club Path, 1965. Coloured ink over print base on pink paper, 363 × 1015 mm. DMC 2921.1. I The drawings have different stories. They don’t have a…
Casa Ugalde Sketch
19.06.2023
Casa Ugalde Sketch19.06.2023
– Laura Bonell and Daniel Lopez-Doriga
…recalled the most common sense of vernacular architecture, would later be used by architects such as Álvaro Siza and Alberto Ponis. In the late 1950’s, Siza would visit the rocky coast…
Drawing Exercises: Design Process
14.07.2023
Drawing Exercises: Design Process14.07.2023
– Matt Page and Fernando Poeiras
…site, sketching, and taking notes. Visits to the site, annotation, and design combined: Alberto Ponis, Yacht Club Path, 1965. Coloured ink over print base on pink paper, 363 × 1015…
DMJ 1 – The Geological Imagination
28.04.2023
DMJ 1 – The Geological Imagination28.04.2023
– Mark Dorrian and Kurt Forster
…of scholar’s rocks, whose fascinating forms served as heightened objects of contemplation and imagination of the literati élite. Alberto Ponis’s account of his life and work in Sardinia gives us…
S.A.U.L. 4th Year: De Rerum Natura / In the Manner Of
13.10.2020
S.A.U.L. 4th Year: De Rerum Natura / In the Manner Of13.10.2020
– Gerard Carty, Elizabeth Hatz and Fionn O'Leary
…Florian Beigel and Philip Christou, Superstudio/Adofo Natalini, Alberto Ponis, Shin Egashira, François Soufflot le Romain, Cassius Goldsmith, Walter Pichler, George Cook, Peter Märkli, Edward Blore, Marie-José Van Hee, Tony Fretton,…
Print Ready Drawings: Composite, Layers, and Paste-ups, 1950-1989
07.02.2024
Print Ready Drawings: Composite, Layers, and Paste-ups, 1950-198907.02.2024
…Schaedel. Courtesy of the MAK Center for Art and Architecture. Alberto Ponis (1933), Plan, Yacht Club Path, Punta Sardegna, Sardinia, 1965. Coloured inks over print base on yellow paper, 365…
Ernö Goldfinger: Westminster Bank
11.02.2025
Ernö Goldfinger: Westminster Bank11.02.2025
Ernö Goldfinger (1902–1987), Alberto Ponis (1933–2024) draughtsman, elevation, Westminster Bank, Elephant & Castle, 1961. Pencil, pen and ink additions to print base, on paper, 550 × 760 mm. DMC 3156….
DMJ 1 – The Geological Imagination
07.09.2021
DMJ 1 – The Geological Imagination07.09.2021
…and the Chinese Garden — Ethan Loo 166 Niall Hobhouse on early travellers to Petra 170 Dialogues between Architecture and Granite in Punta Sardegna — Alberto Ponis 190 Martin Bressani…
For AP + AR
20.01.2025
For AP + AR20.01.2025
– Kirsty Badenoch
…by the author in the Ponis’s studio. I look up from the drawing at myself in the archive. AP looks down through circular glasses and six months of tracing paper…
topographic/cartographic landscape DMC