Henry van de Velde and a monument to Nietzsche
13 November 2019
Henry van de Velde and a monument to Nietzsche13 November 2019
…meet the huge cost, he foresaw that ‘we will have something superb and timeless.’ [2] Nietzsche’s sister, Elisabeth Förster, selected land adjoining the Nietzsche Archive in Weimar. This was too…
Leonhard Lapin: Objects on the Beach
13 December 2019
Leonhard Lapin: Objects on the Beach13 December 2019
…50. Leonhard Lapin, Ando Keskküla. Näituse kataloog (Tallinn: ENSV Riiklik kunstimuuseum, 1986), unpaginated. Leonhard Lapin, Häppening Eestimaal – Valimik artikleid ja ettekandeid kunstist 1967–1977. Manuscript in Leonhard Lapin’s archive (Tallinn: 1977), p. 14….
Surface-oriented
18 December 2019
Surface-oriented18 December 2019
…door, whilst the owner of the writing table can conceal within its orderly divisions a personal archive far more reliable than the dusty drawers of memory will allow. Calvino’s desk,…
Peter Blake & Adolfo Natalini: From Mies to Mickey Mouse
25 March 2020
Peter Blake & Adolfo Natalini: From Mies to Mickey Mouse25 March 2020
…1972. Pen and ink on paper. DMC 8598. Sometimes, in the space between the archive and the library at Shatwell, we make nice conjunctions. Here together are Peter Blake in…
Houses of Work and Play
30 March 2020
Houses of Work and Play30 March 2020
Álvaro Siza (1933), Faculty of Architecture at the University of Porto (FAUP), Portugal, 1985. Ink and pencil on paper. © Álvaro Siza Archive – Fundação Serralves, Oporto, Portugal. The Faculty…
Hans Poelzig: Der Golem
11 March 2021
Hans Poelzig: Der Golem11 March 2021
…archive. Many gravitated towards the sketches of Álvaro Siza, however, I scurried towards the sketch above, excitement building with every step. Its effortless yet purposeful charcoal marks, a crescendo piece,…
Superstudio: Monument Interrupted
31 August 2020
Superstudio: Monument Interrupted31 August 2020
…and who architecture is for. I had not seen the sketchbook pages made by Adolfo Natalini in 1969 that are included in the Drawing Matter archive before, and I had…
BV Doshi: Drawn Closer
23 April 2020
BV Doshi: Drawn Closer23 April 2020
– Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi and Sarah Handelman
…and drawing for the Open Hand Monument in the Drawing Matter Archive, 2019. Photograph. Photo Guus Kaandorp.. This interview was done in collaboration with Khushnu Panthaki Hoof. Drawn Closer is…
Alternative Histories: Philip Christou on Le Corbusier
21 March 2019
Alternative Histories: Philip Christou on Le Corbusier21 March 2019
…his proposal for the Bhakra Dam near Chandigarh, India. I remember seeing this drawing with Florian Beigel years ago in the Drawing Matter archive, and again in an important position at…
Startha Éagsula: O’Donnell + Tuomey on Zaha Hadid
11 December 2020
Startha Éagsula: O’Donnell + Tuomey on Zaha Hadid11 December 2020
– Sheila O'Donnell and John Tuomey
…companion catalogue to Alternative Histories (2019) and published to accompany the third installation of Alternative Histories at the Irish Architectural Archive. Startha Éagsula / Alternative Histories is now available to…
Alternative Histories: Veldwerk Architecten on Gabriel Pierre Martin Dumont
31 July 2019
Alternative Histories: Veldwerk Architecten on Gabriel Pierre Martin Dumont31 July 2019
…finds its origins in a historic drawing from the Drawing Matter archive. Gabriel Dumont’s section of a theatre auditorium and balcony seating, drawn c.1770, proposes a structure that holds the…
Gio Ponti: ‘Come for Porchetta’
23 August 2019
Gio Ponti: ‘Come for Porchetta’23 August 2019
– Niall Hobhouse
…even the Queen of England. An Italian archive of his correspondence, both sent and received, contains more than 99,000 letters exchanged with over 6,400 recipients. ‘My happiness, my love, my…
humour & satire correspondence letters ephemera DMC