Elliott Glushak vs. The City of New York
27 January 2021
Elliott Glushak vs. The City of New York27 January 2021
…builder wants emphasized, and the overall effect which the architect or builder wants the rendering to achieve. The rendering, when completed, is given to the architect or builder by the…
Alexander Brodsky: The Shed
18 May 2018
Alexander Brodsky: The Shed18 May 2018
Alexander Brodsky (1955), accompanying letter from Alexander Brodsky to Niall Hobhouse. DMC 2997.1. Alexander Brodsky (1955), Design for The Shed, 15 Biennale Di Venezia, 2016. Fibre tipped pen, ink and…
Alternative Histories: EM2N on Alexander Brodsky
8 July 2019
Alternative Histories: EM2N on Alexander Brodsky8 July 2019
EM2N, Alexander Brodsky’s three plans, 2018. Polyester cube, light base, 185 × 177 × 275 mm. Alexander Brodsky (1955), Three Plans, 2016. Pencil on tracing paper, 485 × 320 mm….
Hans Hollein & Spiritual Expression in Architecture
22 September 2023
Hans Hollein & Spiritual Expression in Architecture22 September 2023
…the human spirit. The expression is exemplified in the group of post-impressionist painters appropriately referred to as the Expressionists. These included Cezanne, Gaugin, and Van Gogh among others, their quest…
Alternative Histories: Bovenbouw Architectuur on James Gowan
1 February 2019
Alternative Histories: Bovenbouw Architectuur on James Gowan1 February 2019
…cylinder. The elements in the stack grow in size according to Hans van der Laan’s plastic number, which adds weight to the visual experience. The tapering of the tower amplifies…
Drawings in Conversation
1 September 2017
Drawings in Conversation1 September 2017
…Richardson, has set the vanishing point of the drawing at about 3.5 m above the ground plane. Immediately it becomes clear that the drawing is not proposing a reality but…
On Pristine Boxes and Primeval Huts
13 July 2021
On Pristine Boxes and Primeval Huts13 July 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnN-wK5_7Mw Along with his Do Hit Chair (2000), a pristine stainless steel box measuring 1000 x 700 x 750 mm, Dutch-born designer Marijn van der Poll supplies a sledgehammer. In…
The Wessex Project: Thomas Hardy, Architect: Part III
6 January 2023
The Wessex Project: Thomas Hardy, Architect: Part III6 January 2023
…with overhanging storeys, whose small-paned lattices were screened by dimity curtains on a drawing-string, and under whose barge-boards cobwebs waved in the breeze. There were houses of brick-nogging, which derived…
The Office Copier and Baptism by Colour: Working for Rossi in the 1990s
25 October 2019
The Office Copier and Baptism by Colour: Working for Rossi in the 1990s25 October 2019
…table to guess the vanishing points. We teased him every day and asked what he was doing. In reality the most difficult thing was defining the two correct vanishing points…
The ESB’s New Clothes
12 January 2023
The ESB’s New Clothes12 January 2023
…a mile from Merrion Square East to Fitzwilliam Place, was regarded by many as a blatant act of architectural vandalism. Completed in 1970, Stephenson Gibney’s ESB HQ was in fact…
The Order of Terror
28 September 2021
The Order of Terror28 September 2021
– Deanna Petherbridge
…emptiness; of order, disorder and the informal states of the in-between; what kinds of line or tones or colour relationships to develop; what referential language and vocabulary to play with…
art practice drawing as metaphor (series)