Category: drawing histories
Protected: John Hejduk’s Farm Library
25 April 2024
Protected: John Hejduk’s Farm Library25 April 2024
– Mehrshad Atashi and Lida Badafareh
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
Hans Hollein at Drawing Matter
23 April 2024
Hans Hollein at Drawing Matter23 April 2024
– Editors and Nicholas Olsberg
The Austrian architect Hans Hollein (1934–2014) studied under Clemens Holzmeister at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, and then at the Illinois Institute of Technology and the College of Environmental Design at the University of California Berkeley. With the sculptor and designer Walter Pichler he introduced a body of… Read More
Protected: Architectural models and the oriental ideal of the Alhambra
19 April 2024
Protected: Architectural models and the oriental ideal of the Alhambra19 April 2024
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
OMA: London—Foreplay
19 April 2024
OMA: London—Foreplay19 April 2024
This is the first post, in a series of six, titled OMA CONVERSATIONS. The series is the result of a collaboration between Drawing Matter and architect Richard Hall who, over the past two years, has conducted twenty-three in-depth conversations with key collaborators working with OMA during its formative years. Drawing… Read More
Protected: O.M. Ungers: Drawing a metaphor
12 April 2024
Protected: O.M. Ungers: Drawing a metaphor12 April 2024
– Diogo Lopes and Fanny Noël
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
Protected: Peter Wilson in the Empire of Signs
12 April 2024
Protected: Peter Wilson in the Empire of Signs12 April 2024
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
Helsinki City Theatre: Timo Penttilä on the real purpose of drawings
12 April 2024
Helsinki City Theatre: Timo Penttilä on the real purpose of drawings12 April 2024
On his retirement in 1998 as professor of architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Finnish architect Timo Penttilä returned to Finland, where he soon made the decision to close his architectural practice. In this process he ordered his staff to destroy the entire office archive of drawings… Read More
C.S. Peach and the Cruciform Design of the Cathedral
5 April 2024
C.S. Peach and the Cruciform Design of the Cathedral5 April 2024
In view here is a startling watercolour by Charles Stanley Peach, titled Plan of a Church Constructed on Divine Principles (1910)—his pictorial articulation of the cruciform layout of the Christian Cathedral. Architectural aspects are overlayed upon two images of Jesus. The first with his arms splayed wide, hands pinned to… Read More
Erik Gunnar Asplund at Drawing Matter
2 April 2024
Erik Gunnar Asplund at Drawing Matter2 April 2024
– Editors and Nicholas Olsberg
Erik Gunnar Asplund (1885–1940), trained first at the Royal Institute of Technology (where he would teach from 1931), and then at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm, undertook an extensive study tour of Greece and Italy, and opened his own practice around 1913, working entirely in Sweden, and… Read More
Helmut Jacoby: The Amon Carter Museum
22 March 2024
Helmut Jacoby: The Amon Carter Museum22 March 2024
You can stand on the balcony of Philip Johnson’s Amon Carter Museum today and see the same view of Fort Worth that Helmut Jacoby drew up in 1960. Not much has changed. Apart from the fanciful New-Mexican art in the foreground (his invention), the same hot Texan sun, the same… Read More
DMJ – The Sun as Drawing Machine: Towards the Unification of Projection Systems from Villalpando to Farish
20 March 2024
DMJ – The Sun as Drawing Machine: Towards the Unification of Projection Systems from Villalpando to Farish20 March 2024
– Francisco Javier Girón Sierra
At the beginning of the 17th century, the Spanish Jesuit Juan Bautista Villalpando spent his last years of life in Rome obsessively working on an interpretation of the Temple of Solomon. When he came to the question of how to represent its plan, he envisioned a new, almost ghostly, way… Read More
The Captive Globe
28 March 2024
The Captive Globe28 March 2024
– Reinier de Graaf
This essay is about a drawing—or rather, about the insight embedded within that drawing and the life it has taken on in the forty-five years since it was made. The drawing in question is The City of the Captive Globe. It was created in 1972, first published in 1978 by… Read More
projection (axonometric isometric) publication concept & diagram theoretical & imaginary urban form