Architect: Stan Allen
Drawing with Rafael Moneo, Madrid 1984
14 March 2019
Drawing with Rafael Moneo, Madrid 198414 March 2019
I arrived in Rafael Moneo’s Madrid office in early 1984. I had graduated from Cooper Union two years earlier and spent 18 months working for Richard Meier in New York. I met Moneo in 1978 when he was teaching at the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, but I don’t… Read More
Drawings’ Conclusions
8 February 2018
Drawings’ Conclusions8 February 2018
The Campo Marzio project had its origins in a series of drawings done as far back as 1979, when I was a student at Cooper Union. I entered Cooper as a transfer student with a BA already in hand. I was originally placed in second year, but after a semester… Read More
Stan Allen’s Situated Objects (2020): Review & Excerpt
24 February 2021
Stan Allen’s Situated Objects (2020): Review & Excerpt24 February 2021
– Niall Hobhouse
Review Three times a week a package arrives in Somerset with another Practice Monograph, and the generous proposal that we might want to add it to the library at Drawing Matter. This is clearly an old story – somewhere we have a copy of one of John Soane’s endless books… Read More