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Jessie Brennan
04.01.2017
Jessie Brennan04.01.2017
…an act of imagination. Like stills from the filmed footage of a detonation, in each frame a building slumps further down the viewfinder: present, going, going… gone. Or so it…
Disinformation: Closed Circuit
30.06.2021
Disinformation: Closed Circuit30.06.2021
…August 2021. Find full details, here. Notes Ivan Chtcheglov, ‘Formulary for a New Urbanism’, Internationale Situationniste 1, October 1953. Friedrich von Schelling, Philosophie der Kunst, 1802. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cylinder Rudolf Arnheim, Radio,…
The Office Copier and Baptism by Colour: Working for Rossi in the 1990s
25.10.2019
The Office Copier and Baptism by Colour: Working for Rossi in the 1990s25.10.2019
…table to guess the vanishing points. We teased him every day and asked what he was doing. In reality the most difficult thing was defining the two correct vanishing points…
Projected Sections
15.01.2017
Projected Sections15.01.2017
…vanishing point causes the individual apartment in the drawing to appear as a self-contained world. Attention is focused towards the centre of the featured apartment, whereas surrounding apartments (above, below…
Drawing as Preservation
14.06.2023
Drawing as Preservation14.06.2023
…never saw this Qin palace, which vanished two millennia before his birth[3]. His vivid imagery derives, rather, from popular conceptions of the legendary palace. The earliest known written account of…
Swimming in Pixel Fuzz
28.11.2024
Swimming in Pixel Fuzz28.11.2024
– Will Fu
…to advance rougher and more realistic ways of representing the atmosphere of the project for public engagement. With the vantage point of a camera in mind, the TV still staged…
Carlos Diniz and the World Trade Center
01.02.2021
Carlos Diniz and the World Trade Center01.02.2021
…drawings that articulate design ideas, Diniz’s illustrations were commissioned to communicate and sell the project to the clients and broader public. His drawings convey not only the design of the…
DMJ – Canaletto’s Venetian Sketches and the Camera Obscura
13.12.2023
DMJ – Canaletto’s Venetian Sketches and the Camera Obscura13.12.2023
…der Heyden, through the Dutch/ Italian painter Vanvitelli, to Canaletto’s nephew and assistant Bernardo Bellotto. Two contemporaries who followed and possibly worked with Canaletto were Michele Marieschi and Francesco Guardi….
Keshi Ghat
13.05.2021
Keshi Ghat13.05.2021
Seeing is a reaching out, a kind of metaphorical touching that involves one’s whole being and is reciprocal. Amita Singh Author unknown, Plan and elevation, Keshi Ghat, Vrindavan, Uttar Pradesh,…
The Hidden Horizontal. Cornices in Art and Architecture: Exhibition Review
18.10.2021
The Hidden Horizontal. Cornices in Art and Architecture: Exhibition Review18.10.2021
…of the urban ramifications of the cornice, considered under the theme ‘The Cornice in the Urban Perspective.’ The show juxtaposes sixteenth century street views of Northern printmakers Joannes van Doetecum…
This Blue Love: Aldo Rossi in Samos in late Summer 1989
02.06.2021
This Blue Love: Aldo Rossi in Samos in late Summer 198902.06.2021
…and the blue of the water. It is in this vibration that stupor is translated, which appears as the beginning of something but which in fact derives from his interest…
Postcard from Nowhere (Counterswimming)
08.04.2020
Postcard from Nowhere (Counterswimming)08.04.2020
…(Hobhouse) tells me that Luce (van Rooy) told him that Rem (Koolhaas) had refused to have the Medusa Raft screenprint included in her OMA exhibition in Amsterdam because he would have wanted…
Madelon Vriesendorp
04.11.2018
Madelon Vriesendorp04.11.2018
– Niall Hobhouse and Madelon Vriesdendorp
…material that came from Luce van Rooy, to do a kind of archaeology of how the drawings were made… MV: I am always protesting against all this separation of tasks…
Alison and Peter Smithson’s Collages as Reinventing Established Reality
24.02.2023
Alison and Peter Smithson’s Collages as Reinventing Established Reality24.02.2023
…Gardens housing estate shows how much attention they paid to circulation. According to Dirk van den Heuvel, this project could be ‘characterised as a rather early urban renewal project’. [2]…
The Wessex Project: Thomas Hardy, Architect: Part II
21.12.2022
The Wessex Project: Thomas Hardy, Architect: Part II21.12.2022
…and obsession of a social media addict, ‘sending messages from morning till night’. [3] Somerset watches with disquiet, a telegram conversation between Paula and her friend Charlotte: ‘about himself, under…
Denise Scott Brown. In Other Eyes: Portraits of an Architect (2022) – Review
24.07.2023
Denise Scott Brown. In Other Eyes: Portraits of an Architect (2022) – Review24.07.2023
…reveals something of the tragic dimension of a creative being always finding herself an outsider in worlds that tend to exclude anyone other than insiders. Being Jewish, being a foreigner…
Broadcasting Norwegian Time
13.03.2025
Broadcasting Norwegian Time13.03.2025
…conductor in order not to miss a departure, the many clocks of NRK at Marienlyst subjected employees and visiting performers to a single, standardized time in order not to delay…
Owen Jones and the V&A (2023) and Style and Solitude (2023) – Review
17.10.2023
Owen Jones and the V&A (2023) and Style and Solitude (2023) – Review17.10.2023
…which all ornament was derived, a ‘grammar’ in the true sense – and has become instead just a source book of exotic patterns. Owen Jones (1809–1874), Design for Plate XLIII…
Henri Guerbois: Department Store in King Street, 1921
05.10.2021
Henri Guerbois: Department Store in King Street, 192105.10.2021
…is the luxury of choice. You might have a marcel wave, buy a novel, drink a cup of tea, or go to the powder room – all of it under…
Pan Scroll Zoom 1: Fabrizio Gallanti
30.07.2020
Pan Scroll Zoom 1: Fabrizio Gallanti30.07.2020
…series of consecutive slides. There were no faces, accoutrements or postures to look at and decipher; no models or drawings deployed in space over which the eye could wander; rarely…
Drawing, Collaging, Rendering
09.12.2020
Drawing, Collaging, Rendering09.12.2020
…Forms rise out of the bleached expanse of the paper under the intent eyes of the architect as if, beneath his gaze, layer upon layer were converging and agreeing amongst…
Portals: The Visionary Architecture of Paul Goesch (2023) – Review
29.09.2023
Portals: The Visionary Architecture of Paul Goesch (2023) – Review29.09.2023
…Goesch to outsider status. His work was reproduced and discussed in psychiatric journals at the time, and, it is not unusual (at least online) to see him classified as an…
Insignificance 3: Mourning Work
09.06.2021
Insignificance 3: Mourning Work09.06.2021
– Gordon Shrigley
…Ebhardt, took over his father’s office. Professor Robert Jan van Pelt: I had a look at the drawings, and they appear typical for the tens of thousands of barracks that…
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