Theodore Conrad and Harvey Wiley Corbett
11 November 2018
Theodore Conrad and Harvey Wiley Corbett11 November 2018
– Jennifer Gray and Irene Sunwoo
…a photo collage from Corbett’s archive, housed at the Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, document the complete model and provide insight into how multiple forms of representation fuelled Corbett’s…
Le Corbusier: Unité d’habitation
1 August 2016
Le Corbusier: Unité d’habitation1 August 2016
…how he would like the children to be posed. M. Sciarli did his best, and kept the letter in his archive. Le Corbusier (1887–1965), Illustrated letter, Unite d’habitation, 1955. Ink…
Alexander Brodsky
15 October 2016
Alexander Brodsky15 October 2016
…They all draw and archive the objects and spaces they discover in these buildings, and reassemble them like an archeologist reassembles what he excavates: a room, a space, a bench,…
Eisenman: House II
17 March 2017
Eisenman: House II17 March 2017
…representations. It’s not representing anything; it is the incarnation of the thing. – Peter Eisenman, 2013 The Canadian Centre for Architecture, which holds Peter Eisenman’s archive, has more than 2,000…
Drawings in Conversation
1 September 2017
Drawings in Conversation1 September 2017
Charles Robert Cockerell (1788–1863), view of courtyard, Competition entry for the Royal Exchange, 1838. Lithograph, 293 × 420 mm. Courtesy London Metropolitan Archives. C. R. Cockerell, Joseph Gwilt and the…
Parataxis
28 December 2017
Parataxis28 December 2017
…barn was the archive. Walking across concrete cattle slats laid between a gap in the wall, I stopped, opened the door, and stepped up into the room. [1] Inside a room…
A Fragment of Wright’s Great City
16 July 2018
A Fragment of Wright’s Great City16 July 2018
…his archive but to make of it a gift to his son. Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959), Midway Gardens as built, c.September 1914. Photograph. Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959), Imperial Hotel, c.1925….
Drawing, Movement and Medium: Michael Webb in conversation with Mark Dorrian, Episode 2
21 January 2019
Drawing, Movement and Medium: Michael Webb in conversation with Mark Dorrian, Episode 221 January 2019
– Mark Dorrian and Michael Webb
…So, if anybody’s interested, these images are from the archive of the exhibitions on the MOMA website. This is the 1961 ‘VisionaryArchitecture’ show that was curated by Arthur Drexler. And…
Alternative Histories: Christ & Gantenbein on Louis Kahn
16 February 2019
Alternative Histories: Christ & Gantenbein on Louis Kahn16 February 2019
…this drawing while visiting the Drawing Matter archive with our ETH Zurich students after spending a week in London and its environs, being led by the idea of the Grand…
On Cornices, Part I
17 June 2019
On Cornices, Part I17 June 2019
…State Museum’s Schinkel Archive, suggesting that Schinkel made more than a passing habit of working on such details at full scale. The second detail sheet shows Schinkel’s design for the…
Cedric Price: Urban Spaceman
22 March 2021
Cedric Price: Urban Spaceman22 March 2021
– Ana Bonet Miró
…violence in my twenty-one acres (…)’. [7] Robot doll shot, min 2:16, ‘London from the Air 1 (Fun Palace Outtakes), 1963; Joan Littlewood, 3 min, British Film Institute National Archive….
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