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Alternative Histories: De Vylder Vinck Taillieu on Michael Graves
31.01.2019
Alternative Histories: De Vylder Vinck Taillieu on Michael Graves31.01.2019
Jan de Vylder records that as a child Michael Graves was given a set of painted building blocks by his uncle. The set was made of wooden offcuts found around the yard where the young architect grew up; they remained with him throughout his career. From: Jan De Vylder Sent:… Read More
Alternative Histories: Hugh Strange Architects on Carlo Scarpa
31.01.2019
Alternative Histories: Hugh Strange Architects on Carlo Scarpa31.01.2019
Approximately A1-landscape in size, Carlo Scarpa’s drawing shows a series of studies of an unbuilt theatre project from 1970. A coloured, elevational sketch suggesting a masonry wall cut with slot-like or nearly-rounded apertures, inset with a lighter, framed structure, dominates the drawing. Our eyes are drawn to the details: a… Read More
Alternative Histories: Max Otto Zitzelsberger on Louis Tullius Joachim Visconti
17.01.2019
Alternative Histories: Max Otto Zitzelsberger on Louis Tullius Joachim Visconti17.01.2019
Building upon Building Building upon buildings, drawing upon drawings, thinking upon thoughts. If this architectural drawing of Visconti has ever been realised, I do not know. In the end I am only interested in his architectural vision. Construction boards bear ideas and visions, before these become reality. They tell stories… Read More
Alternative Histories: Robbrecht en Daem Architecten on Le Corbusier
12.01.2019
Alternative Histories: Robbrecht en Daem Architecten on Le Corbusier12.01.2019
A Rain of Light It is our true belief that light is particles of dust. When light is driven through impurities it intensifies, and we assign it a mineral quality. We feel empowered by the ‘photon theory of light’ by Albert Einstein. – Robbrecht en Daem Architecten, January 2019
Alternative Histories: Jonathan Sergison on Carlos Diniz
12.01.2019
Alternative Histories: Jonathan Sergison on Carlos Diniz12.01.2019
Carlos Diniz’s drawing for Hillrise Apartments represents of another architect’s work. Who this may have been remains unclear. Interpreting the work of others is a common aspect of developing architectural ideas; our many collaborators add to projects through their drawings and models, constantly adjusting arrangements and proportions. On other occasions,… Read More
Alternative Histories: GAFPA on Superstudio
12.01.2019
Alternative Histories: GAFPA on Superstudio12.01.2019
We received a sketch made by Superstudio, the Italian architecture firm renowned for its conceptual architecture works.In the famous 1966 exhibition ‘Super Architecture’ the squared grid is used in a variety of scales from the simplest objects of furniture, such as a table, to an urban landscape.Through a series of… Read More
Alternative Histories: Olivier Goethal On Paul Rudolph
06.01.2019
Alternative Histories: Olivier Goethal On Paul Rudolph06.01.2019
YOU CLOSE, YOU OPENYOU OPEN, YOU CLOSE model 1/20 & object 1/1.1952–2018. a reinterpretation of paul rudolph’s flaphouse. like a tiny temple, lifted from its surrounding. 400-800THz …a narrow window makes our observed reality.in gradient with colours of visible light. while reflecting the given context onto its surface,its structure expresses… Read More
Alternative Histories: Tony Fretton Architects on Erik Gunnar Asplund
19.12.2018
Alternative Histories: Tony Fretton Architects on Erik Gunnar Asplund19.12.2018
We recognise modernism as a continuing program to find architecture for the present time, and Asplund’s work as part of its history. Our project is a thought experiment on the central aspects of architecture’s modernism – social responsibility in combination with freedom to work with current sensibilities. It has proceeded… Read More
The Continuous Monument, Shatwell
09.10.2018
The Continuous Monument, Shatwell09.10.2018
To provoke an archaeology of collage making Niall Hobhouse asked Adolfo Natalini and Gian Piero Frassinelli to prepare a last collage, some 50 years after the first Continuous Monument, to imagine that it had finally arrived at Shatwell.
Ephraim Joris
28.09.2018
Ephraim Joris28.09.2018
The idea of the Monolith Drawing was developed during my doctoral studies at RMIT. The PhD process allowed me to reflect on my architecture practice as part of AP [Architecture Project] contemplating the idea of history as the experiential content of speculative architecture. During this research I established a drawing… Read More
Netherfield Scroll One
28.08.2018
Netherfield Scroll One28.08.2018
– Chris Cross, Jeremy Dixon and Edward Jones
The following two-part conversation surrounds the acquisition of the Netherfield Scroll – a 20-foot-long drawing created c. 1971 by Chris Cross, Jeremy Dixon, Michael Gold and Edward Jones, otherwise known as the ‘Grunt Group’, for the commission of a low-density housing estate in Milton Keynes. The conversation with Jeremy Dixon… Read More
Alternative Histories: Atelier Tomas Dirrix & Boris de Beijer on Otto Schönthal
01.01.2018
Alternative Histories: Atelier Tomas Dirrix & Boris de Beijer on Otto Schönthal01.01.2018
A few coloured washes present the frail idea for a cemetery church. The drawing, made by Otto Schontal, hardly seems to make a suggestion for a building. A blue and green blur with coloured stains loosely defines a sphere in which scale nor structure seems important. Following our interest in the… Read More
Ray Bradbury: Letterhead
01.08.2016
Ray Bradbury: Letterhead01.08.2016
Dear Al: Just a note to tellyou not to worrryif one box of books is a bit late arriving.I sent one box out last week, but the otherwas delayed getting to the P. O. until today.So, both are on their way, but one willarrive much later. Best, as ever, Ray
