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Alternative Histories: Raamwerk on Tony Fretton
31 July 2019
Alternative Histories: Raamwerk on Tony Fretton31 July 2019
Alternative Histories: Sam Jacob Studio on Archizoom
31 July 2019
Alternative Histories: Sam Jacob Studio on Archizoom31 July 2019
What might the purpose of an alternative history be? How might we collaborate with the past? What passes from one generation to another or from one hand to another? Is the construction of a (new) model of an (old) project a way of producing an alternative past? Or different present?… Read More
Alternative Histories: Veldwerk Architecten on Gabriel Pierre Martin Dumont
31 July 2019
Alternative Histories: Veldwerk Architecten on Gabriel Pierre Martin Dumont31 July 2019
Paper Mountain Like the models it displays, the paper mountain exhibition scenography finds its origins in a historic drawing from the Drawing Matter archive. Gabriel Dumont’s section of a theatre auditorium and balcony seating, drawn c.1770, proposes a structure that holds the audience as if they were godly statues of a stacked temple, suspended… Read More
Alternative Histories: Nikolaus Bienefeld on James Gowan
30 July 2019
Alternative Histories: Nikolaus Bienefeld on James Gowan30 July 2019
Die ersten Modelle einer Entwurfsskizze verkörpern den architektonischen Gedanken.So, wie die Skizze durch die Art des Striches, der Farbigkeit, der Detaillierung eine oder viele Interpretationen ermöglicht, so eröffnet die Wahl und der Umgang mit dem Material des Modells eine größtmögliche Offenheit im architektonischen Prozess. The first models of a design sketch… Read More
Alternative Histories: NoAarchitecten on Álvaro Siza
30 July 2019
Alternative Histories: NoAarchitecten on Álvaro Siza30 July 2019
When we look at Siza’s drawing we try to forget the project we know. We see the beautiful irregularity of a pencil perimeter, defined by obstacles of all sorts. Within it, the architect added straight lines, an attempt to bring order and create a place to dwell, to find shelter.… Read More
Alternative Histories: Noreile Breen on Louis Kahn
30 July 2019
Alternative Histories: Noreile Breen on Louis Kahn30 July 2019
Kahn’s drawing is composed of solid and dotted hard pencil lines with red hatching on coloured paper; conventions representing elements above, below and through a cut line. Parallel lines and breaks between lines give an indication of scale. Curious, massive, triangular, hollow and inaccessible forms meet broken lines in a… Read More
Alternative Histories: muf architecture/art on John Hejduk
29 July 2019
Alternative Histories: muf architecture/art on John Hejduk29 July 2019
John Hejduk’s drawing sketches a house for a couple, or two coupled houses, composed of two almost identical small buildings connected to each other by a walkway which holds each house at a distance apart. Each house has its own spiral stair for independent movement and what looks like its… Read More
Alternative Histories: Monadnock on James Stirling
29 July 2019
Alternative Histories: Monadnock on James Stirling29 July 2019
All fragments of this illusionary city by Stirling are once more getting aroused.A re-assemblage brings the possibility for orchestrating a vertical narrative instead of the intended horizontal scheme.Gaining iconic strength, this reinterpretation of a reinterpretation – in an attempt of finding a new cohesion – opens up for new gestures.Gestures which are… Read More
Alternative Histories: Edelaar Mosayebi Inderbitzin Architekten on Alvar Aalto
29 July 2019
Alternative Histories: Edelaar Mosayebi Inderbitzin Architekten on Alvar Aalto29 July 2019
Die Zeichnung zum Rathaus und Theater Jyväskylä bot uns weniger Anleitung für unsere Arbeit am Projekt alternative history, sondern eröffnete vielmehr einen Imaginationsraum – nicht zuletzt, weil der markante Rathausturm im Entwurf von Aalto gar nicht realisiert wurde. Unsere Recherche führte uns deshalb bald weiter. Über die Ansicht von Aaltos Malereien… Read More