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Insignificance 1: Discipline
4 May 2021
Insignificance 1: Discipline4 May 2021
Adler & Sullivan, section, addition to Selz Schwab & Co Factory building, USA, 1903. Ink on linen. DMC 2058.8. (detail). The space of the architectural imagination resides within the discourses…
Opportunism
2 June 2022
Opportunism2 June 2022
– Richard Hall and Emma Rutherford
…‘The Sparkling Metropolis’, Guggenheim, New York (1978). See also various discussions on the exhibition in: Christophe van Gerrewey (Ed.), OMA/Rem Koolhaas: A Critical Reader, (Basel: Birkhäuser, 2019), pp.26-61. See related reading….
Simon Fraser University
1 February 2024
Simon Fraser University1 February 2024
…just under the latticed windows of the dormitories. With the full university community’s endorsement and under the stewardship of Herb Auerbach, sketch plans were drawn up as a basis for…
‘Then There Was War’: John Hejduk’s Silent Witnesses as Nuclear Criticism
19 October 2022
‘Then There Was War’: John Hejduk’s Silent Witnesses as Nuclear Criticism19 October 2022
…then make any sense to consider this as silence at all? Wouldn’t it rather be the case that silence, as marker of a limit condition, with this loss of witness passes…
Entering the Imperial Palace
16 March 2022
Entering the Imperial Palace16 March 2022
…to his ankyloglossia (a shortened skin between his tongue and his mouth). His closest family member and confidant was his sister until he witnessed her murder at the hands of…
The Pursuit of Gothic
10 November 2021
The Pursuit of Gothic10 November 2021
…Gothic was English and felt too passionate a commitment to the idea to look objectively at the evidence. Christopher Wren’s suggestion that it derived from Saracenic architecture and came to…
Paul László: Hertz Fallout Shelter
31 August 2020
Paul László: Hertz Fallout Shelter31 August 2020
…would find his way to Hollywood and its environs, though not before serving in World War II for his new country. In short order, he gained attention for his futuristic…
Frank Lloyd Wright, House for Edith Carlson, 1939, Part II
7 November 2021
Frank Lloyd Wright, House for Edith Carlson, 1939, Part II7 November 2021
Extracted from Stories from Architecture: Behind the Lines at Drawing Matter by Philippa Lewis, published by MIT Press © 2021. Order the book here. The drawings around which Stories from Architecture are written are all part…
The Well-Constructed Joke: Comic Architecture
1 May 2024
The Well-Constructed Joke: Comic Architecture1 May 2024
This article first appeared in German: ‘Der gut gebaute Witz’ in Der Architekt 4/21 ‘Effekt und Affekt, Psychologie in der Architektur’ (2021), 60-63. 18 September 2021 Kurt W. Forster writing to Holger…
Between the Layers: Transparent Paper as a Modernist Architectural Design Environment
6 January 2022
Between the Layers: Transparent Paper as a Modernist Architectural Design Environment6 January 2022
…the wider context of related media, making reference to the methods of Modernist architects and photographers, filmmakers and video game designers. The notion is organised around the distinction between ‘literal…
Fernand Pouillon’s Survey of the Abbey of Le Thoronet
17 May 2021
Fernand Pouillon’s Survey of the Abbey of Le Thoronet17 May 2021
…books, is his constant search for order in architecture, order as the backdrop, the setting for everyday life. The Cistercian order, to which the protagonist monk-master builder belongs, lived by…
Galli da Bibiena
10 March 2017
Galli da Bibiena10 March 2017
– Fabrizio Ballabio
…the near entirety of parameters within a single, engraved plate: in this case, the delineation of the scene’s point of sight (what today we’d term the vanishing point), the calculation…
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