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Jørn Utzon’s Sydney Opera House
26.04.2018
Jørn Utzon’s Sydney Opera House26.04.2018
https://vimeo.com/265976565 Somebody said the story about the orange is not right, but it is: he sent one of us over to the shop to buy an orange and he peeled…
Eurolandschaft Dérive
01.04.2018
Eurolandschaft Dérive01.04.2018
Peter Wilson (1950), Eurolandschaft – A Dérive, 1998. Mixed media, 185 × 240 mm. DMC 2945.1. The format is Japanese: a concertina sketchbook presented empty to me by Akira Suzuki…
Aux Citoyens Membres de La Commune attachés à la commissions des services publics
07.09.2018
Aux Citoyens Membres de La Commune attachés à la commissions des services publics07.09.2018
Hector Horeau (1801–1872), Design for converting La Madeleine to an omnibus office, 9 April 1871. Pencil, pen and ink on reverse of title page of publication by Horeau, 615 ×…
WilkinsonEyre
28.03.2018
WilkinsonEyre28.03.2018
WilkinsonEyre, X-Ray Isometric Projection, Battersea Power Station, 2017. BIM model. DMC 2909.12. This drawing presents a snapshot of the BIM model from the northern end of Battersea Power Station. Combined…
A. W. N. Pugin
13.03.2018
A. W. N. Pugin13.03.2018
A. W. N. Pugin (1812–1852), Sketch, Interior of St David’s Church, Pantasaph, Flintshire, 1851. Pen and ink on blue writing paper. DMC 2727.3. In 1846 Viscount Feilding (later 8th Earl…
AL_A: V&A Exhibition Road Quarter
05.03.2018
AL_A: V&A Exhibition Road Quarter05.03.2018
AL_A, Making visible the invisible, above ground, 2017. Digital print. DMC 2909.9.1. AL_A, Making visible the invisible, below ground, 2017. Digital print. DMC 2909.9.2. Farshid Moussavi’s brief for the Royal…
Tony Fretton: Lisson Gallery 1
27.02.2018
Tony Fretton: Lisson Gallery 127.02.2018
Tony Fretton (1945), Lisson Gallery 1, 84-7-1, 1984. Pen and ink on paper, 105 × 150 mm. DMC 2895.5.40. 84-7-1 is a singular image, a drawing of Lisson 1 seen…
Carlos Diniz: United States Embassy, Moscow
14.02.2018
Carlos Diniz: United States Embassy, Moscow14.02.2018
Carlos Diniz (1928–2001), Embassy of the United States, Moscow, c.1976. Felt-tip Pentel on trace, 460 × 780 mm. © Estate of Carlos Diniz. DMC 2967.6. The Commons Carlos Diniz (1928–2001),…
Behind the Lines 3
07.02.2018
Behind the Lines 307.02.2018
George Coke, Topographical view, the wall and trees of London Smallpox Hospital, oldbath Fields, Clerkenwell, London, 1796. Pencil, black ink and grey wash on paper, 168 × 280 mm. DMC…
Better with Sun from West: US Embassy Moscow, The Commons
05.02.2018
Better with Sun from West: US Embassy Moscow, The Commons05.02.2018
Carlos Diniz (1928–2001), Embassy of the United States, Moscow, The Commons, c.1976. Felt-tip Pentel on trace, 455 × 765 mm. © Estate of Carlos Diniz. DMC 2967.8. In an interview…
A Blueprint is… Blue
24.01.2018
A Blueprint is… Blue24.01.2018
Jean-Charles Moreux (1889–1956), Front Elevation, Design for a block of flats, Rue Gazan, Paris, c.1927. Cyanotype on paper. DMC 2272.2. A common error in looking at architectural drawings is to…
Studio Mumbai: Saatrasta-Mahindra Tape Drawing
14.01.2018
Studio Mumbai: Saatrasta-Mahindra Tape Drawing14.01.2018
Studio Mumbai, Saastrata-Mahindra Tape Drawing, 2013. Pencil and tape on wood, scale 1:1, 830 × 1850 × 15 mm. Courtesy the artist and Betts Project. DMC 3272. The idea of…
Yona Friedman: Space-chain Structures
11.01.2018
Yona Friedman: Space-chain Structures11.01.2018
‘Proteinic structures’, ‘proteinic chains’, ‘space chains’ and ‘iconostase’ are different names for similar structures, proposed and varied over the years by Yona Friedman. [1] They originally have in common a…
Le Corbusier: Sketch for the Governor’s Palace, Chandigarh, India
07.09.2018
Le Corbusier: Sketch for the Governor’s Palace, Chandigarh, India07.09.2018
Le Corbusier (1887–1965), Sketch (numbered ‘4’) for the Governor’s Palace, Chandigarh, India, Amis (Friends), 27 May 1953. Pen, pencil and coloured pencil on paper, torn from a sketchbook in the…
Buckminster Fuller’s Geodesic Sphere
09.10.2018
Buckminster Fuller’s Geodesic Sphere09.10.2018
Richard Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983), Study Drawing for a Geodesic Sphere, 1975. Pen on paper, 610 × 480 mm. DMC 1022. Frail and delicate, Richard Buckminster Fuller’s drawing of a geodesic…
Francesco Milizia on Maderno, Posi and Jonson
07.11.2019
Francesco Milizia on Maderno, Posi and Jonson07.11.2019
The first edition of Francesco Milizia’s Le vite de’ più celebri architetti d’ogni nazione e d’ogni tempo, known in English as The Lives of the Celebrated Architects, Ancient and Modern, was published…
Gowan and Stirling
01.03.2019
Gowan and Stirling01.03.2019
James Gowan (1923–2015), Analysis drawing with University of Leicester, Engineering Building (upper right). Pencil and green crayon on wove paper, 473 × 260 mm. This odd-shaped, yellowed analysis drawing by…
The Difficulty of Designing Furniture
07.11.2019
The Difficulty of Designing Furniture07.11.2019
Álvaro Siza (1933), Caderno 202 (April – May), 1985. Biro on paper, 297 × 210 mm. DMC 2546.41. I Architecture: a tree here, a house there, or a temple; on…
Giò Ponti: Plan chest designs, c.1955
07.11.2019
Giò Ponti: Plan chest designs, c.195507.11.2019
Giò Ponti (1891–1979), Plan chest designs. Pen on paper. DMC 2001.12. Giò Ponti, Plan chest designs, c.1955. Pen on paper. DMC 2001.14. Giò Ponti (1891–1979), Plan chest designs, c.1955. Pen…
Fontaine: Hide-and-Seek
01.11.2019
Fontaine: Hide-and-Seek01.11.2019
Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine (1762–1853), Drawing model for a Music Room, c.1803. Pen, ink and watercolour on paper, 120 × 185 × 144 mm. DMC 2081. Republished to celebrate the release of Architecture…
What Lies Beneath
31.10.2019
What Lies Beneath31.10.2019
‘The people of Sydney ought to be afraid of the sharks, but for some reason they do not seem to be,’ recalled Mark Twain in his 1897 Following the Equator. The…
The Office Copier and Baptism by Colour: Working for Rossi in the 1990s
25.10.2019
The Office Copier and Baptism by Colour: Working for Rossi in the 1990s25.10.2019
Aldo made this drawing when the Bonnefanten Museum in Maastricht was already realised. I would say that it is typical for the kind of drawing he would make when he…
Tales from the Crypt
18.10.2019
Tales from the Crypt18.10.2019
The great mysteries are not the invisible things, but the visible ones. And to me, it is a great and fascinating mystery that the same architect, Giles Gilbert Scott, designed…
Behind the Lines 4
28.03.2018
Behind the Lines 428.03.2018
– Philippa Lewis
Angelier (attrib.), Three Perspective Drawings for an Estate of Villas, Streatham, London: Sketch No. 1 – View as supposed to meet the eye on the entrance from main road from…
creative writing DMC topographic/cartographic presentation housing urban form behind the lines (series)