Medium: drawing
Tim Robinson: Deep Mapping
26 February 2024
Tim Robinson: Deep Mapping26 February 2024
This text is an excerpt from Shallow Time: The Burren (Dpr-Barcelona and Irish Architecture Foundation, 2023), 73-74, written by Tom Cookson. The text is reproduced with permission from the Irish Architecture Foundation. How to communicate the topographic nature of landscape and lived experience on a map reproduced on paper? The composition… Read More
Houses for Printing: A Microcosm of the World
21 February 2024
Houses for Printing: A Microcosm of the World21 February 2024
The following text is an excerpt from the guide that accompanied the exhibition ‘PRINT READY DRAWINGS: Composites, Layers, and Paste-ups, 1950-1989’, installed at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture in Los Angeles between 11 November 2023 – 4 February 2024, and curated by Sarah Hearne. Caterina Pincioni, secretary at… Read More
Ludwig Wittgenstein (and Gustav III of Sweden), designing gardens
15 February 2024
Ludwig Wittgenstein (and Gustav III of Sweden), designing gardens15 February 2024
In the following extract, from his book Cambridge College Gardens, Tim Richardson describes the incident that made philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein sketch out his ideas for an alternative garden design at Trinity College in Cambridge, alongside a letter Wittgenstein wrote to the College Garden Committee objecting to the plans for their… Read More
DMJ – Grids and Squared Paper in Renaissance Architecture
14 February 2024
DMJ – Grids and Squared Paper in Renaissance Architecture14 February 2024
The grid and the squared paper have played an important role in architectural practice, both in analysing and measuring what already exists (sites, monuments, etc.) and in organising and modularising the graphic development of the design process. The use of the square grid is generally linked to Greek civilization, mathematics,… Read More
Giuliano Fiorenzoli: Because of Seeing Architecture (2023) – Review
8 February 2024
Giuliano Fiorenzoli: Because of Seeing Architecture (2023) – Review8 February 2024
In 1977, two years into the city’s fiscal crisis, I moved to New York City—a young architecture student, ready to take in everything the metropolis had to offer. What I found was a city scarred by garbage strikes, the blackout, and a serial killer calling himself the Son of Sam.… Read More
Protected: Elia Zenghelis—Watersheds
7 February 2024
Protected: Elia Zenghelis—Watersheds7 February 2024
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
Charles Holden: A new campus for Bloomsbury
2 February 2024
Charles Holden: A new campus for Bloomsbury2 February 2024
– Bill Sherman and Richard Temple
Quoted from the exhibition text of Charles Holden’s Master Plan: Building the Bloomsbury Campus, curated by Bill Sherman, Director of the Warburg Institute and Richard Temple, Archivist of the University of London. The exhibition continues until 17 March in the Chancellor’s Hall Lobby, First Floor, Senate House. More information here.… Read More
Careful Crudeness
31 January 2024
Careful Crudeness31 January 2024
At first glance, this image is a mess. An aerial photograph onto which a pen drawing of an undistinctive, modernist building structure has been mounted. Gouache is smeared in a few places in a seemingly half-hearted attempt to hide parts of the photograph and soften the collision of the two… Read More
Landing Square Scenarios: The Wilhelmina Pier & Luxor Theatre
29 January 2024
Landing Square Scenarios: The Wilhelmina Pier & Luxor Theatre29 January 2024
Radical Scenarios for Rotterdam For a while in the 1990s, Berlin and Rotterdam were seen as embodiments of opposing strategies in city making. Postwar Berlin was the laboratory for the ‘Reconstruction of the European City’—blocks with 22m facades—while Rotterdam, largely destroyed by German bombing during WW2, became a zone of… Read More
The Religious Architecture of Alvar, Aino and Elissa Aalto (2023) — Review
26 January 2024
The Religious Architecture of Alvar, Aino and Elissa Aalto (2023) — Review26 January 2024
There is an ongoing debate within the field of theology and the arts concerning to what degree ‘theology’ must guide the discussion. Those on one side of the divide argue that unless the terms are clearly staked out within traditional discourses and literature in theology, we do not know what… Read More
Josep Maria Jujol: Ribbons with streamers everywhere
25 January 2024
Josep Maria Jujol: Ribbons with streamers everywhere25 January 2024
– Juan Mercadé Brulles, Jesús Esquinas-Dessy and Isabel Zaragoza
During the process of cataloguing drawings from the special collection of Josep Maria Jujol (1879-1949), housed in the graphic archive of the Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB UPC), our attention was drawn to a particular drawing, illustrating a festive urban sequence.[1] At first glance, it is a captivating object, simultaneously… Read More
Visualizing the Renaissance Worksite and the problems of graphic translation
17 January 2024
Visualizing the Renaissance Worksite and the problems of graphic translation 17 January 2024
– Jarne Geenens and Elizabeth Merrill
Francesco di Giorgio’s autograph manuscript of machine design, the Opusculum de architectura is among the most enigmatic records of early modern architecture.[1] Dedicated to Duke Federico da Montefeltro, the compact vellum manuscript celebrates the art and ingenuity of technical design, while simultaneously capturing the energy and ambition of the fabled… Read More