1313 texts about architecture in drawings, models and photography. 784 writers on 882 architects.
Sheds: Palaces of Nothing
09.10.2016
Sheds: Palaces of Nothing09.10.2016
Sheds: Palaces of Nothing (Photo: Jamie Woodley) 9 – 16 October 2016, Hauser & Wirth Maltings Gallery, Somerset Curated by Robert Mull and Alexander Brodsky, with Markus Lähteenmäki, Nicholas Olsberg and…
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe at Drawing Matter
13.05.2025
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe at Drawing Matter13.05.2025
– Editors and Nicholas Olsberg
…FOR THE KRÖLLER-MÜLLER HOUSE: SIX PHOTOGRAPHIC VIEWS, 1912 The project to house the family and art collection of the Kröller-Müller’s had passed at their request from Peter Behrens to his…
Robert Bray: Six Designs for a Playboy Penthouse Pad
12.05.2016
Robert Bray: Six Designs for a Playboy Penthouse Pad12.05.2016
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…
The ‘indispensable ingredients of sublimity’: Smirke and Papworth’s Designs for the Wellington Testimonial
20.11.2023
The ‘indispensable ingredients of sublimity’: Smirke and Papworth’s Designs for the Wellington Testimonial20.11.2023
…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…
Mies van der Rohe and the Universal Space Project
30.08.2022
Mies van der Rohe and the Universal Space Project30.08.2022
…Fox River property over the years (which Mies planned for, but obviously underestimated), for Robert Silman Associates’ semi-recent proposed in-situ hydraulic solution to preserve the house, and for the Neue…
Haunted: Robert Smithson’s ‘My House is a Decayed House’
18.03.2021
Haunted: Robert Smithson’s ‘My House is a Decayed House’18.03.2021
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…
Postmodern Australia: Robert Pearce’s Drawings for Edmond and Corrigan
01.02.2022
Postmodern Australia: Robert Pearce’s Drawings for Edmond and Corrigan01.02.2022
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…
Robert Bray: Design for a Playboy Duplex Penthouse, 1970
17.01.2023
Robert Bray: Design for a Playboy Duplex Penthouse, 197017.01.2023
…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…
DMJ – From Landscape to Mapscape: Robert Smithson’s Maps
15.11.2022
DMJ – From Landscape to Mapscape: Robert Smithson’s Maps15.11.2022
…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 Mylne
01.04.2016
Robert Mylne01.04.2016
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…
Behind the Lines 11
12.08.2019
Behind the Lines 1112.08.2019
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 Maxwell: The Letter, the Lost Sketchbook and the Lecture
23.09.2022
Robert Maxwell: The Letter, the Lost Sketchbook and the Lecture23.09.2022
– 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…
Architects at Play (2023) – Review
15.05.2023
Architects at Play (2023) – Review15.05.2023
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…
Louis Kahn: The Importance of a Drawing (2021) – Review
10.02.2022
Louis Kahn: The Importance of a Drawing (2021) – Review10.02.2022
…Merrill’s previous collaborations with Lars Müller, Louis Kahn: Drawing to Find Out. Any doubts I might have had vanished when I unpacked the bulky package that arrived a few days…
Syon House and the Afterlife of Architectural Drawing
22.04.2022
Syon House and the Afterlife of Architectural Drawing22.04.2022
His writing is not about something; it is that something itself. [1] Fig.01; Robert Adam, Section of the Great Hall at Syon House, 1761. © John Soane’s Museum. I knew…
Robert Adam: The Long Gallery at Syon
13.05.2022
Robert Adam: The Long Gallery at Syon13.05.2022
– 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 Venturi: The Difficult Whole
22.01.2016
Robert Venturi: The Difficult Whole22.01.2016
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 – 18 December 2015
18.12.2015
Robert Adam: The Long Gallery at Syon – 18 December 201518.12.2015
Robert Adam, Section of the Great Hall at Syon House, 1761. © John Soane’s Museum. On 18 December 2015, Frances Sands and Stephen Astley took out two leather-bound volumes from…
Spring Open Weekend 5 & 6 April 2024 – Drawing Clusters
02.04.2025
Spring Open Weekend 5 & 6 April 2024 – Drawing Clusters02.04.2025
…Robert Cockerell, Survey and reconstruction of the Parthenon, Greece, 1813. Pen and black ink with pencil and grey and orange wash. Dosio 2159.8 Giovanni Antonio Dosio, Tuscan column with details…
The Birds’ Morning Hymn (1929)
10.07.2020
The Birds’ Morning Hymn (1929)10.07.2020
…Sir Robert Lorimer (London: Country Life: 1931), 3–4. Robert Lorimer (1864–1929), panel design with honeysuckle, birds, fruit and flowers; possibly for a pelmet, c.1891. Pencil and coloured crayons on wove…
The Anatomy of the Architectural Book: Magical Moves
06.06.2022
The Anatomy of the Architectural Book: Magical Moves06.06.2022
…Müller Publishers © 2015. Notes Paolo Portoghesi, ‘Domenico Fontana architetto e urbanista’, in Domenico Fontana: Della trasportatione dell’obelisco vaticano 1590, ed. Adriano Carugo (Milan: Polifilo, 1978), xi–xviii. Brian A. Curran, Anthony…
Two Way Traffic: Japanese Woodblock Prints
12.10.2022
Two Way Traffic: Japanese Woodblock Prints12.10.2022
– Alex Faulkner
…Johann Sebastian Müller. Müller and his brother, Tobias were scrupulous architectural and botanic engravers working in eighteenth century London. Johann Sebastien Müller; after Giovanni Paolo Panini, Capriccio of Roman Ruins…
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