David K. Ross: Archetypes (2021) – Review and Excerpt
11 January 2022
David K. Ross: Archetypes (2021) – Review and Excerpt11 January 2022
…into reality. All too often, they have become the foremost devices for sampling and matching rather than essential tools for testing novel material applications and complex construction details. The mock-up…
Architecture Summer School 2024
15 May 2024
Architecture Summer School 202415 May 2024
…Courtesy of Drawing Room. PRACTICAL INFORMATION The Summer School is completely free of charge and runs daily from 10am to 6pm at Drawing Room, Bermondsey, from Monday 19 to Friday 23 August 2024….
Montage-Entourage; Or The Politics Of The Seam
24 January 2022
Montage-Entourage; Or The Politics Of The Seam24 January 2022
…scenarios of animated commodity exchange. The environment is composed of lines, with color display screens flickering, networking, and electrifying the city. The city is an assemblage of image-objects, transiently mixing…
Lauretta Vinciarelli: Homogeneous and Non-Homogeneous Grids
11 March 2021
Lauretta Vinciarelli: Homogeneous and Non-Homogeneous Grids11 March 2021
…the foundations of modern architecture, which she saw as intertwined with the foundations of composition: ‘what is composition, and how is composition achieved,’ she stated, ‘which is the very basic…
Lauretta Vinciarelli’s West Texas Types
26 June 2019
Lauretta Vinciarelli’s West Texas Types26 June 2019
…early 1960s and was fomented by the impact of the worldwide protests of 1968. While at La Sapienza, she also encountered and participated in the violent unrest of the 1968…
Architecture Summer School 2024: Tutor Applications
28 May 2024
Architecture Summer School 2024: Tutor Applications28 May 2024
Summer School exhibition and review, 2022. Photo: Clare Walsh The deadline for tutor applications has now passed. We are now accepting tutor applications for our annual Architecture Summer School. The…
Resistance and the ‘Architecture of Pessimism’: John Hejduk’s House for the Inhabitant who Refused to Participate
5 August 2024
Resistance and the ‘Architecture of Pessimism’: John Hejduk’s House for the Inhabitant who Refused to Participate5 August 2024
…Farrell and Shelley McNamara, ‘Freespace Manifesto’, Reading Design (2017) <https://www.readingdesign.org/freespace-manifesto>[Accessed 5 April 2024]. Ina Praetorius, ‘The Care-Centered Economy: Rediscovering what has been taken for granted’ (Heinrich Böll Stiftung, 2015), 58….
Diagrams: Hans van der Heijden in Conversation with Richard Hall
5 May 2021
Diagrams: Hans van der Heijden in Conversation with Richard Hall5 May 2021
…100 Day Studio online lecture series, May 2020): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7ANLjjg33I Éric Lapierre, Marvellous Architecture: Reason as Architectural LSD (for the Architecture Foundation’s 100 Day Studio online lecture series, May 2020): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3acwSYrY-k…
Stirling at Stuttgart: Rear View / Up Views
15 June 2020
Stirling at Stuttgart: Rear View / Up Views15 June 2020
…careless (to borrow Robert Maxwell’s phrase) composition of disjointed office buildings, grp-clad and systematically striped pavilions that Stirling would later compare to two badly-parked London buses. This particular evening he…
Alberto Pérez-Gómez: Architecture as Drawing
28 July 2022
Alberto Pérez-Gómez: Architecture as Drawing28 July 2022
– Mark Dorrian and Alberto Pérez-Gómez
…specific and, interwoven with this, a site of complex relationality and negotiation within which things take form in meaningful ways. It is the hollowing out of this complexity that is…
Drawing Sacred Forests and Courtyards in South Benin
29 January 2021
Drawing Sacred Forests and Courtyards in South Benin29 January 2021
…Beninese Government is a recent example. [8] What is interesting for my research is that there was also a landscaping project associated with this old plan (but not represented), because,…
Connor Street: Made by Many Hands
12 February 2024
Connor Street: Made by Many Hands12 February 2024
– Kieran Hawkins
…found of resolving this was to commission BM TRADA to come to site to grade the timber for us. Happily, their report confirmed the sapele was D40 grade: even stronger…
connor street: made by many hands (series) domestic