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Resistance and the ‘Architecture of Pessimism’: John Hejduk’s House for the Inhabitant who Refused to Participate

Resistance and the ‘Architecture of Pessimism’: John Hejduk’s House for the Inhabitant who Refused to Participate

Anna Kostreva

…his outsider position, working predominantly through architectural drawings rather than buildings.[2] In this way, the project stands as a self-narration, which I find a most incredible tool for architecture, and…

Tree Speech

Tree Speech

Sylvia Lavin

…Drawing Matter would like to thank the author and the journal’s editors for allowing us reproduce the essays on www.drawingmatter.org. To order a copy of Log 49, click here. In…

Archives, or Ardor

Archives, or Ardor

Iris Moon

…worry if Agni is destroyed, since he is then in that yonder orb.’ Every construction is temporary, including the fire altar. It is not a fixed object, but a vehicle….

Poetry and Architecture (2023) — Review

Poetry and Architecture (2023) — Review

Peter Carl

…perhaps columns of soldiers marching towards the vanishing point of a no-man’s land.’[19] An isometric does not, of course, have a vanishing-point; and, by extruding block solids through the voids…

­­­Constant’s Ladders as Mythic Entity

­­­Constant’s Ladders as Mythic Entity

Alison Bartlett

…under the hypnotic power of myth, the sign is dislocated from its original symbolic order and proceeds to endure a series of mutations that deny historical continuity and favour a…

Drawing the Curtain: Entangling rendering and theatrical space

Drawing the Curtain: Entangling rendering and theatrical space

Thomas Hutton

…make things more complicated still, digital drawing tools have now evolved to disguise themselves almost without detection. They can render the effects of lenses, they can render the lens itself,…

Lauretta Vinciarelli: Homogeneous and Non-Homogeneous Grids

Lauretta Vinciarelli: Homogeneous and Non-Homogeneous Grids

Rebecca Siefert

…Press, 1986), p.158. Ibid. Jacques Derrida, ‘Semiology and Grammatology: Interview with Julia Kristeva’, in The Routledge Language and Cultural Theory Reader, edited by Lucy Burke, Tony Crowley and Alan Girvin…

Pan Scroll Zoom 17: Monadnock

Pan Scroll Zoom 17: Monadnock

Job Floris and Fabrizio Gallanti

…wider audience. The more interesting question is how much of the past should resonate? Both Sandor Naus, the other co-founder of Monadnock, and I studied at an academy of fine…

Paolo Portoghesi: the Field Theory

Paolo Portoghesi: the Field Theory

Marco Vanucci

…that it complies with the requirements of the classical order. At the turn of the seventeenth century, Baroque architecture represents one of the most sophisticated examples of proto-parametric architectural styles….

Landing Square Scenarios: The Wilhelmina Pier & Luxor Theatre

Landing Square Scenarios: The Wilhelmina Pier & Luxor Theatre

Peter Wilson

…Wilhelmina Pier—docklands recently connected to downtown Rotterdam by Ben van Berkel’s Erasmus bridge, which slips in at the lower edge of our drawings. Our Landing Quay with its voyeuristic Bridge…

Luigi Moretti and Spazio: Eclecticism and Unity of Language

Luigi Moretti and Spazio: Eclecticism and Unity of Language

Marco Vanucci

…his predecessors, taking on the responsibility of uncovering the unitary language common to all human expressions.  Marco Vanucci and Drawing Matter revisit three seminal texts of Luigi Moretti, not generally available in…

Shatwell Farm: Cars

Shatwell Farm: Cars

Emily Priest

…full of cider and shiny pinecone-looking decorations hanging from precast concrete gables inside one of the sheds. Were these from last Christmas or for the one coming? Apart from our…