Medium: drawing
Protected: Leicester Engineering Building: Un-detailing
17 February 2025
Protected: Leicester Engineering Building: Un-detailing17 February 2025
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Drawing on Ideas
17 February 2025
Drawing on Ideas17 February 2025
In 1972, when Peter Eisenman’s House II was published in L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui, the editors confused a photograph of the built work for an image of a model. The house was located in Southern Vermont, and had been shot from a low angle against a uniform grey sky with a snow-covered hillside… Read More
Protected: DMJ – A Will to the City
14 February 2025
Protected: DMJ – A Will to the City14 February 2025
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Protected: Slaughterhouse as Spectacle
13 February 2025
Protected: Slaughterhouse as Spectacle13 February 2025
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Adolf Loos: House Tzara, Paris, 1925-27
13 February 2025
Adolf Loos: House Tzara, Paris, 1925-2713 February 2025
In 1924, Adolf Loos decided to leave Vienna and move his office to Paris. This decision was prompted by the politically motivated closure of the Settlement Office in Vienna. Loos had been the chief architect of the Settlement Office and was deeply committed to the settlers’ movement and the young… Read More
Protected: Broadcasting Time: Clock Drawings of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation
12 February 2025
Protected: Broadcasting Time: Clock Drawings of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation12 February 2025
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Eisenman on Rossi
12 February 2025
Eisenman on Rossi12 February 2025
Rossi’s analogous drawings, like his analogous writings, deal primarily with time. Unlike the analogous writings, however, the drawings represent the suspension of two times: one processual—where the drawn object is something moving toward but not yet arrived at its built representation; and the other atmospheric—where drawn shadows indicate the stopping… Read More
Ernö Goldfinger: Westminster Bank
11 February 2025
Ernö Goldfinger: Westminster Bank11 February 2025
Looking at Ernö Goldfinger’s drawing for Westminster Bank at Alexander Fleming House in London, the first thing that stands out is its grid-like form. The frame of the building and its windows form a grid, and a grid within a grid, respectively. A peek inside the carefully drawn ground-floor windows… Read More
Álvaro Siza: SAAL Bouça Housing, Porto
10 February 2025
Álvaro Siza: SAAL Bouça Housing, Porto 10 February 2025
– Manuel Montenegro, Helen Thomas and Ellis Woodman
This drawing has two layers and two authors. Francisco Guedes de Carvalho made the draft perspective when he was a collaborator working in Siza’s office after studying under him at the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Porto (FAUP). Guedes de Carvalho worked on the Bouça housing project both… Read More
Lisson 1 + 2
7 February 2025
Lisson 1 + 27 February 2025
LISSON GALLERY 1, 1986. Bell Street, London NW1 Tony Fretton, Michael Fieldman, Ruth Aureole Stuart. We were invited to discuss a new building for the Lisson Gallery. Meetings took place in the office of their existing premises, that the Director and his colleagues shared. To reach it you walked in… Read More
Protected: On Axonometric Drawing
4 February 2025
Protected: On Axonometric Drawing4 February 2025
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Sixty Metres, Sixty Degrees
4 February 2025
Sixty Metres, Sixty Degrees4 February 2025
This text is loosely based on the first part of my lecture ‘The Landscape Model,’ delivered at the Sverre Fehn-designed Hedmark Museum in October 2023. The lecture was part of the Sverre Fehn Symposium ‘Authoring Architecture in Time’ organised by AHO and the Hedmark Museum, and curated by Professor Mari… Read More
Richard Neutra at Drawing Matter
3 February 2025
Richard Neutra at Drawing Matter3 February 2025
– Editors and Nicholas Olsberg
Richard Neutra trained in Vienna, for a time under Karl Moser and Adolf Loos, did wartime service in Serbia, and spent six years working first in Switzerland with the landscape architect Gustav Ammann; then in Berlin—for the last two years as project manager for Erich Mendelsohn; and finally in Chicago… Read More
Anton Markus Pasing
30 January 2025
Anton Markus Pasing30 January 2025
Münster, March 2024 Mad I cannot be, sane I do not deign to be, neurotic I am. Nearly fifty years ago Nigel Coates writing in my Villa Auto AA exhibition catalogue chose the above quote from Roland Barthes to describe my pathological production of architectural fictions. These were hand-drawn, a… Read More
Paul Rudolph: Transcending the Conventions of Architectural Drawing
27 January 2025
Paul Rudolph: Transcending the Conventions of Architectural Drawing 27 January 2025
Paul Rudolph (1918-1997) is known for his compelling large-scale presentation drawings, such as the memorable perspective sections of his Yale Art & Architecture Building in New Haven, CT (1958-1963), among others. But a deeper dig into the Rudolph archive at the United States Library of Congress in Washington D.C. reveals… Read More
Dogma: Urban Villa – From Speculation to Collaboration
23 January 2025
Dogma: Urban Villa – From Speculation to Collaboration23 January 2025
On the north edge of Brussels city centre, the recently refurbished Gare Maritime was once Europe’s largest goods station. Located in the former industrial area known as ‘Tour & Taxis’, the vast nineteenth-century roof now shelters offices, indoor retail boulevards and enough left over space to host markets and events,… Read More
For AP + AR
20 January 2025
For AP + AR20 January 2025
Long, thin and crisp, sun-bleached, rose-blushed. Thousand-time photocopied notations of notations. Struck-through with highlighter, corrected and recorrected re-negotiated, scribbled and walked across. I walk together with AP e AR, our thin nibbed-shoes picking careful tracks between sharpie chasms. We leak behind us inky trails, to be washed away by the… Read More
The Utzons go to Stockholm
17 January 2025
The Utzons go to Stockholm17 January 2025
‘…my parents went to visit the grand exhibition in Stockholm in 1930. Here the Scandinavian functionalism had its breakthrough in a society of exceedingly ornate style. Here [in Stockholm] they were exposed to a new and simple, white architecture that drew in light and air, one that let in the… Read More
E. W. Godwin and the Mild Mild West
13 January 2025
E. W. Godwin and the Mild Mild West13 January 2025
From this drawing it would seem unlikely that the side elevation at its centre would one day be photographed thousands of times and attract the interest of people from all over the world. It appears unremarkable, especially when compared to the gutsy brick detailing and gothic flourishes of the building’s… Read More
Montano – Don’t Speak About Me
10 January 2025
Montano – Don’t Speak About Me10 January 2025
Dear Niall, Before I forget, I wanted to send you the transcription from the Montano sheet. You can post it as my little discovery. Non dir di me se su di me non sai senza di te che poi di me dirai?Non fare ad aloro quello che a te non piace … Read More
Aldo van Eyck: Diruit, aedificat, mutat quadrata rotundis
14 February 2025
Aldo van Eyck: Diruit, aedificat, mutat quadrata rotundis14 February 2025
– Laura Harty
‘He pulls down, he builds up, he exchanges square for round.‘Horace—Epistles. I. 1. 100[1] The Aldo van Eyck drawing currently on show at 13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields appears, at first glance, to do precisely this. A preliminary drawing, one made for the design of the architect’s own house, on transparent… Read More
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