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In the Archive: Abattoirs, Boucheries, and Slaughterhouses
31.03.2025
In the Archive: Abattoirs, Boucheries, and Slaughterhouses31.03.2025
…sur la Place ditte de la Boucherie, c.1783. Pen, ink and wash on two joined sheets of laid paper, watermarked: ‘Vanderley’, 370 × 915 mm. DMC 2592. Paul Piot (1808–1864),…
Drawing Powers 3: The Drawing in the Object
02.11.2021
Drawing Powers 3: The Drawing in the Object02.11.2021
…now consider drawing styles and drawing crafts. They are means of formal and material organisation that allow the broadening of perception and sensitivity and reveal new ways of understanding and…
Ugliness and Judgment
19.04.2019
Ugliness and Judgment19.04.2019
John Wood, survey showing the rectilinear forms and measurements used to derive the outlines of the irregular stones at Stonehenge, 1747. In the summer of 1740, John Wood the Elder…
A Short History of Alberto Ponis on the Sardinian Coast
15.11.2021
A Short History of Alberto Ponis on the Sardinian Coast15.11.2021
…in order to draw out their hidden truth; and building direct and deeply rooted links between his architecture and the environment. He made no distinction between the site and his…
The Rural Homes of Marcelo Ferraz and Francisco Fanucci
13.12.2021
The Rural Homes of Marcelo Ferraz and Francisco Fanucci13.12.2021
…whitewashed wall spliced to the dividing wall can be seen on this side, a kind of white horizontal blade that slowly vanishes from the bottom-up until it is gone, in…
Vitruvius: Follow the Footprints
07.12.2020
Vitruvius: Follow the Footprints07.12.2020
…walk toward the vanishing point of the plan, they would arrive at the seaside city in the distance. Finally, several ships are sailing away from the city in open waters…
Library of Babel
29.06.2020
Library of Babel29.06.2020
…technology. In light of this, one could ponder what the wider implications of a device that can create space beyond what we know, and one could even posit that LIDAR…
Dissecting
25.07.2017
Dissecting25.07.2017
…streets. It includes acts of maintenance and conservation, alongside vandalism and demolition, and even temporary constructions which last only for brief periods of time. A single street or space might…
Pan Scroll Zoom 13: Tatiana Bilbao
01.06.2021
Pan Scroll Zoom 13: Tatiana Bilbao01.06.2021
– Tatiana Bilbao and Fabrizio Gallanti
…was still to be filled in when the pandemic began. It started to capture their interpretations of the place but was still under development. In addition to engaging with the…
Johan Celsing Buildings Texts (2021) – Review
06.12.2022
Johan Celsing Buildings Texts (2021) – Review06.12.2022
…Copies of the publication can be purchased here. Nina Lundvall is an architect, co-founder of Nina James Architects and leader of a masters design unit at the University of Nottingham….
Sant’Elia and Global Futurist Architecture
21.07.2023
Sant’Elia and Global Futurist Architecture21.07.2023
…(Antonio Sant’Elia) to Luigi Sant’Elia from Como and Cristina Panzilla from Caserta (Naples). He studies in Como, first at technical schools then at the Scuola Castellini. A master builder at…
Materia 4: Brick
10.01.2023
Materia 4: Brick10.01.2023
…brick. I refer the reader to my previous Drawing Matter article on the rendered wall: https://drawingmatter.org/materia-render/. The Monadnock and Kearsage building, Chicago, designed by architects Daniel Hudson Burnham and John Wellborn…
Pan Scroll Zoom 9: The Screen ClassRooms
19.03.2021
Pan Scroll Zoom 9: The Screen ClassRooms19.03.2021
…No longer may the teachers demand the attentiveness, presence and alertness that traditionally has been expected of the bodies of the students. Students can now lounge, stroll, wander, eat, sleep,…
In the Archive: de la Fuente, Unknown, OMA, Ellwood and Ponis
15.02.2023
In the Archive: de la Fuente, Unknown, OMA, Ellwood and Ponis15.02.2023
…as part of their research. I first found myself at Drawing Matter to view the voiles produced by the Chilean architect Jullian de la Fuente under the direction of Le…
Web of Intrigue
03.04.2020
Web of Intrigue03.04.2020
…among trees. There is a flying object present in the drawing which is either a giant bird or a glider somewhat reminiscent of those designed and flown by Otto Lilienthal…
Behind the Lines 10
19.06.2019
Behind the Lines 1019.06.2019
…of the £1000 All British House competition, The Builder, 1932. Rose and Abram, ‘third premiated design’, £1000 All British House, The Builder, 1932. When Samuel Hardy turned over the page…
Guy Debord
07.06.2017
Guy Debord07.06.2017
…http://www.bmlisieux.com/ 6. Guy Debord, ‘Theory of the Dérive,’ in Liero Andreotti and Xavier Costa, eds., Theory of the Dérive and Other Situationist Writings on the City (Barcelona: Museum of Contemporary Art of…
The Wobbly Line: Asplund, Johansson and the Influence of Tessenow in Sweden 1915–1925
27.07.2020
The Wobbly Line: Asplund, Johansson and the Influence of Tessenow in Sweden 1915–192527.07.2020
…trade journal Byggmästaren (The Master-Builder). It is part of a presentation of a new three-storey house by the architect Cyrillus Johansson. To illustrate his text the architect has included photos and a…
Pan Scroll Zoom 15: Other Architects
07.07.2021
Pan Scroll Zoom 15: Other Architects07.07.2021
– Fabrizio Gallanti, Grace Mortlock and David Neustein
…technology and to figure out how we could actually make it work for us, in order to reframe the terms of engagement. David Neustein: We made a big gamble because…
Retail Therapy
30.03.2020
Retail Therapy30.03.2020
Alexander Scott Carter (1881–1968), competition design for a double-fronted shop for W.H.Smith, c.1910. Encil and watercolour on thick wove paper, 560 × 777 mm. DMC 2168. Alexander Scott Carter (‘ALEX’)…
Flores & Prats Sala Beckett International Drama Centre (2020): Review & Excerpts
30.03.2021
Flores & Prats Sala Beckett International Drama Centre (2020): Review & Excerpts30.03.2021
…order to be able to connect with that moment that most interested us about the former cooperative, in order to build our own version of its history, which was to…
On Cornices, Part I
17.06.2019
On Cornices, Part I17.06.2019
…the architect wrote an unpublished text titled ‘Das Princip der Kunst in der Architektur’ (‘The Principle of Art in Architecture’), in which he spoke of the necessity of all works…
A Dose of Dosio
24.12.2019
A Dose of Dosio24.12.2019
…its surface in order to render it translucent, and the use of oiled paper in the Dosio album indicates that these drawings are tracings. [3] In order to follow this, one must…
Two Way Traffic: Japanese Woodblock Prints
12.10.2022
Two Way Traffic: Japanese Woodblock Prints12.10.2022
– Alex Faulkner
…from Enlightenment Europe stressed technological advances, particularly optical instruments. Of these, stereoscopes and mechanical devices, European vues d’optique, were popular. In the 1770s, Utagawa Toyoharu (the artist and founder of…
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