Category: office cultures
Protected: Helsinki City Theatre: Timo Penttilä on the real purpose of drawings
28 February 2024
Protected: Helsinki City Theatre: Timo Penttilä on the real purpose of drawings28 February 2024
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
Rem Koolhaas—Peter Pan [TBC]
7 February 2024
Rem Koolhaas—Peter Pan [TBC]7 February 2024
[Intro] [Lead Image] Excerpt
Elia Zenghelis—Watersheds
7 February 2024
Elia Zenghelis—Watersheds7 February 2024
[Intro] [Lead Image] Excerpt
Collaborators—Outsiders
7 February 2024
Collaborators—Outsiders7 February 2024
[Intro] [Lead Image] Excerpt — Hans Werlemann and Claudi Cornaz Excerpt— Madelon Vrisendorp and Zoe Zenghelis Excerpt— Vincent de Rijk and Frans Pathesius
Big Competitions—How to Re-orient the Modern Project for the 21st Century
7 February 2024
Big Competitions—How to Re-orient the Modern Project for the 21st Century7 February 2024
[Intro] [Lead mage] Excerpt— Xaveer de Geyter Excerpt— Mike Guyer Excerpt— Luc Reuse Excerpt— Georges Heintz Excerpt— Marion Goerdt
Rotterdam—Child’s Crusade
7 February 2024
Rotterdam—Child’s Crusade7 February 2024
[Intro] [Lead Image] Excerpt— Kees Christiaanse Excerpt— Paul de Vroom and Herman de Kovel Excerpt— Ruurd Roorda Excerpt— Willem Jan Neuterlings
Alberto Ponis, The London Years
14 December 2023
Alberto Ponis, The London Years14 December 2023
I am leafing through a neat hundred-page sketchbook with notes, the text enlivened with pencil, charcoal, and pen sketches with varied annotations, including asterisks and underlining in colour crayon, brought into order with careful lists and occasional full pages on practical matters such as delivering a lecture or taking architectural… Read More
Protected: London—Foreplay
2 November 2023
Protected: London—Foreplay2 November 2023
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
Keep digging and you will find what you are looking for: Alvar Aalto in Germany
27 October 2023
Keep digging and you will find what you are looking for: Alvar Aalto in Germany27 October 2023
In 1957, Alvar Aalto gave a speech in Munich entitled ‘Schöner Wohnen’.[1] He referred to his own design, the Hansaviertel apartment block in Berlin—his first project in Germany—as he described the key concerns in the design of the modern dwelling. (The construction of Aalto’s second German project, the Neue Vahr… Read More
DMJ – Drawing Instruments from Sir John Soane’s Office
25 October 2023
DMJ – Drawing Instruments from Sir John Soane’s Office25 October 2023
This display of drawing instruments, which can be seen in the newly restored Drawing Office at Sir John Soane’s Museum, rather charmingly evokes the atmosphere of the office when in the early nineteenth century it was the busy epicentre of Soane’s architectural practice, filled with his young apprentices and clerks.[1]… Read More
A Christmas Card from Ralph Erskine
6 July 2023
A Christmas Card from Ralph Erskine6 July 2023
Most of us must sometimes receive a message or a drawing that in retrospect we wish we’d retained—but they go astray. In my own case I can recall three: a note from the philosopher Bernard Williams about his friend Thomas Nagel (lost without record) a postcard from Göran Schildt clarifying our… Read More
Alberto Ponis: Drawing Landscape
30 August 2023
Alberto Ponis: Drawing Landscape30 August 2023
– Team SHICHAI拾柴
This is film was made by team SHICHAI拾柴 for the exhibition ‘Drawing Landscape: Alberto Ponis,’ exhibited at Tongji University, Shanghai, 10 April—20 May 2023. It concludes a series of posts on Drawing Matter pairing team SHICHAI拾柴’s films with drawings from our collection; find these in the ‘related reading’ below.
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