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Reflections on my Internship
27 April 2022
Reflections on my Internship27 April 2022
In April 2021, I hesitantly emailed the editors at Drawing Matter to ask if they were currently accepting internship applications. Why would the Drawing Matter team want to burden themselves with an inexperienced and most likely unhelpful American intern? They had no established internship program, Covid-19 cases were on the… Read More
Signature
15 February 2021
Signature15 February 2021
It’s just a small loose sheet of paper ripped off a notepad. Along its margins, an elegant round-cornered brown border, once enclosing an anonymous blank space of empty expectancy, now ceremoniously frames a mysteriously attractive, harmonious, yet utterly cryptic mark, struck and left upon its surface: a signature. By whose… Read More
Protected: Portfolio 1: Camp
19 November 2020
Protected: Portfolio 1: Camp19 November 2020
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Alternative Histories: Hild und K Architekten on James Gowan
10 August 2019
Alternative Histories: Hild und K Architekten on James Gowan10 August 2019
“Form follows fender” In James Gowan’s parallel projections we were particularly interested in their spatial qualities, and how the form could develop. Seen as a negative space, it could be a staggered courtyard. James Gowan used a car shape as a reference. By extracting the theme and duplicating the shape… Read More
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
Collection of Sections
2 December 2020
Collection of Sections2 December 2020
– Allen Keith Yee
The following drawings and commentaries have been excerpted from Visual Discoveries: A Collection of Sections (Oro Editions, 2020). The publication surveys the use of section drawings in the histories of architecture and other professions, from the 17th century to the present. More information on the book can be found here.… Read More
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