Medium: text
Denise Scott Brown ‘From Soane to the Strip’
01.09.2023
Denise Scott Brown ‘From Soane to the Strip’01.09.2023
The following text is an excerpt from Denise Scott Brown’s 2018 Soane Medal lecture, written by Thomas Weaver, and developed out of a series of conversations between Denise Scott Brown and Thomas Weaver in July 2018. I have never thought of myself as a photographer, only an architect and urbanist,… Read More
Comins x Shatwell Tea House
25.08.2023
Comins x Shatwell Tea House25.08.2023
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Similar to the way the soil, climate, cultivar, and—of course—the tea maker come together to craft distinct and flavourful teas, numerous helping hands played an important role in the journey that culminated in the process and construction of the Comins x Shatwell Tea House. The most common question visitors have… Read More
Thinking Through Twentieth-Century Architecture (2023) – Review
17.08.2023
Thinking Through Twentieth-Century Architecture (2023) – Review17.08.2023
Philosophy has long played an influential part in architectural practice and discourse. In the last twenty years, several new publications have started to trace the histories of this phenomenon. Some, like Branko Mitrović’s Philosophy for Architects (2011), lay out introductory surveys of major figures, works, and ideas at the overlap… Read More
Chloethiel Woodard Smith
16.08.2023
Chloethiel Woodard Smith16.08.2023
In June 2023 Kathleen James-Chakraborty, Professor of Art History at University College Dublin, gave a talk about American modernist architect and urban planner Chloethiel Woodard Smith. Part of the series ‘Rethinking Architectural Legacies’ at the Zaha Hadid Foundation, the talk was titled ‘How to Succeed as a Woman: Chloethiel Woodard… Read More
Sant’Elia and Global Futurist Architecture
21.07.2023
Sant’Elia and Global Futurist Architecture21.07.2023
‘Found’ in the archive at Drawing Matter, this wild text by Marinetti on his friend and collaborator Sant’Elia seems not to have been previously translated. Its occasion was a commemorative exhibition of the young architect’s work organized in 1930 by the commune of his native city, Como, fourteen years after… Read More
