Architect: Antonio da Sangallo the Younger
Vitruvius: Follow the Footprints
7 December 2020
Vitruvius: Follow the Footprints7 December 2020
By Paul Emmons
An intriguing Italian Renaissance drawing from the mid-sixteenth century has recently received critical attention through Drawing Matter. [1] Both the recto and the verso of the paper sheet have an ancient temple plan in perspective in a landscape setting, drawn in brown ink and attributed to the Sangallo circle as… Read More
Trees Make A Plan
7 October 2020
Trees Make A Plan7 October 2020
By Sylvia Lavin
In 1546, Antonio da Sangallo the Younger died of malaria while working in Umbria about 100 kilometres north of Rome. Unlike Claude Perrault, who in 1688 also contracted a fatal infection as part of his work – the source of his malady is said to have been a camel he… Read More
arq : plan, Stan Allen, Helen Mallinson, Niall Hobhouse
20 July 2018
arq : plan, Stan Allen, Helen Mallinson, Niall Hobhouse20 July 2018
arq & Drawing Matter To launch the collaboration with Drawing Matter, and in continued celebration of arq’s recent twenty-first anniversary, the first issue of Volume 22 opens with a collection of twenty-one pairs of plan drawings. Stan Allen, Niall Hobhouse, and Helen Mallinson chose the images in an intense one-day session.… Read More
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