Architect: Philip Christou

Startha Éagsula: Paul Dillon Architects on Florian Beigel and Philip Christou
26 November 2020

Startha Éagsula: Paul Dillon Architects on Florian Beigel and Philip Christou26 November 2020

– Paul Dillon

This drawing is a development sketch for their proposed part in the rebuilding of the last remaining shanty town outside of Seoul, South Korea. It remains unbuilt. The model is instructional, suggestive of a final building, uses found, recycled materials. The use is not specified. The process of building is… Read More

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Mystery as Ground
21 March 2019

Mystery as Ground21 March 2019

– Andrew Clancy

I We could start here, with this image in the exhibition Disappear Here, found in Abraham Bosse’s (c. 1602–1676) Maniere universelle de M. Desargues pour pratiquer la perspective. Two men stand looking at a four-sided form projected on the ground. Rather than an orthogonal, universal perspective that privileges one point outside the picture,… Read More

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Alternative Histories: Philip Christou on Le Corbusier
21 March 2019

Alternative Histories: Philip Christou on Le Corbusier21 March 2019

When asked to participate in ‘Alternative Histories’, I was pleased to be offered the large, elegant drawing by Le Corbusier of his proposal for the Bhakra Dam near Chandigarh, India. I remember seeing this drawing with Florian Beigel years ago in the Drawing Matter archive, and again in an important… Read More

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