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Infinite Patterns in I. M. Pei’s Furniture Diagrams
12.01.2022
Infinite Patterns in I. M. Pei’s Furniture Diagrams12.01.2022
…eventually find that, ‘the same volumes are repeated in the same disorder (which repeated, would constitute an order: Order itself)’. The archive is often conceived as a static vault that…
Sydney’s Infill Facades
05.07.2024
Sydney’s Infill Facades05.07.2024
…19th-century architecture. Alongside their contemporaries such as the work of Peddle Thorp, Walker’s AMP Building, or Rudder Littlemore & Rudder’s Qantas House, these infill buildings are categorised within Sydney’s Modern…
The Decline of Architectural Drawing (1859)
11.05.2020
The Decline of Architectural Drawing (1859)11.05.2020
…number of architectural drawings on display in Conduit Street, left a less than positive impression on critic C. H. Smith. In an article published by The Builder, Smith describes what…
Gallaratese & Fagnano Olona (1976)
26.05.2020
Gallaratese & Fagnano Olona (1976)26.05.2020
…relationships. However, another aspect of this design was made clear to me by Fabio Reinhart driving through the San Bernardino Pass, as we often did, in order to reach Zurich…
Take Courage
08.03.2018
Take Courage08.03.2018
…1960s (of which the existing house is a humble example) and older forms (of which the neighbours are derivatives). Once this carapace had been determined, I was able to return…
DMJ 1 – The Geological Imagination
28.04.2023
DMJ 1 – The Geological Imagination28.04.2023
– Mark Dorrian and Kurt Forster
…Lot’s wife for looking behind her we all know was changed into a pillar of Salt & remains so to this day!’ [2] The statue was likely to have been derived from…
Caruso St John Collected Works: Volume 1, 1990 – 2005 – Review
21.02.2023
Caruso St John Collected Works: Volume 1, 1990 – 2005 – Review21.02.2023
…a reader, one is invited to enter the universe of two architects who are searching for their position in the late 1990s architectural scene. They take a critical stance towards the…
Reality Modeled After Images: Architecture and Aesthetics after the Digital Image (2022) — Review
24.02.2024
Reality Modeled After Images: Architecture and Aesthetics after the Digital Image (2022) — Review24.02.2024
…the architect, who used it to render solid from void, not only in detailed drawings but also in general plans and elevations. Sciographia is the origin of that convention that…
Through a Glass Darkly
06.06.2023
Through a Glass Darkly06.06.2023
…hollow tombs on every side,—the white river bed and its clear stream, edged with superb scarlet-tufted blossom of oleander alternating with groups of white-flowered bloom,—all these combine to form a…
Thinking Through Twentieth-Century Architecture (2023) – Review
17.08.2023
Thinking Through Twentieth-Century Architecture (2023) – Review17.08.2023
…Kahn, column, beam, vault and ventilation slot, Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, USA, 1972. © Nicholas Ray. The bait that lures the reader into this otherwise familiar historiography is…
Architectural Typefaces
29.05.2020
Architectural Typefaces29.05.2020
…drawn by the architect, instructions that would allow another to reproduce these letterforms exactly? Perhaps an engineer or a builder could find this useful, but I doubt that a trained…
Fabric Object: Diana Agrest and Mario Gandelsonas
25.07.2024
Fabric Object: Diana Agrest and Mario Gandelsonas25.07.2024
– Darell Wayne Fields, Anda French, Tessa Kelly, Paul Lewis and Michael Meredith
…2021-2022. Tessa Kelly is a co-founder of Group Architecture and Urbanism (Group AU), as well as co-founder of The Mastheads, a public design non-profit in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. She is currently teaching…
DMJ – Five Episodes from the History of Drawing Instruments
14.11.2024
DMJ – Five Episodes from the History of Drawing Instruments14.11.2024
…as a cornice or pediment), the remainder at reduced scale. The majority were made with crafted tools, with the straight and curved lines showing how well practised the draughtsmen were…
Architectural Ethnography: Japan Pavilion
12.06.2018
Architectural Ethnography: Japan Pavilion12.06.2018
…with drawings gathered together under the name of Architectural Ethnography. Momoyo Kaijima of Atelier Bow Wow has been developing the thinking underlying this method of observing and recording the human…
The Palace of Dawn and Dusk / Palacio del Alba y del Ocaso
17.07.2023
The Palace of Dawn and Dusk / Palacio del Alba y del Ocaso17.07.2023
…origination of one of them, but rather that it participates directly in their generation. It participates, we might say, shoulder to shoulder, in the concrete generation of a work. Anybody…
Colin Rowe: Piazza Augusto Imperatore (1995)
05.03.2020
Colin Rowe: Piazza Augusto Imperatore (1995)05.03.2020
…that sprang up in the ages of decadence shall vanish. The millenary monuments of our history shall stand out as giants in solitary splendour. – Benito Mussolini, 1926 And he…
Thomas Henry Wyatt’s Brook House
12.06.2020
Thomas Henry Wyatt’s Brook House12.06.2020
…House, published in The Builder in July 1870. A separate pavilion (shown on the left hand side of the drawing) housed the billiards’ room and servants’ quarters and was linked…
Leonhard Lapin: Objects on the Beach
13.12.2019
Leonhard Lapin: Objects on the Beach13.12.2019
…Soon, Lapin emerged as an intellectual leader of a group of architects and artists – later named the Tallinn School – who distanced themselves from the self-sufficient disciplinary approach of…
DMJ – Drawing Instruments from Sir John Soane’s Office
25.10.2023
DMJ – Drawing Instruments from Sir John Soane’s Office25.10.2023
…Court, Soho, London’. Alexander Wellington, who described himself on his bill-head as a ‘Mathematical Instrument Maker’, was someone whom Soane patronised on a regular basis, as can be seen from…
The I’Ansons: A Dynasty of London Architects & Surveyors
30.11.2021
The I’Ansons: A Dynasty of London Architects & Surveyors30.11.2021
…old colleague and probably friend of the older Edward I’Anson. A section of the new building signed by I’Anson Sr and dated 1829 has come to light recently, though it…
Edifice
19.08.2022
Edifice19.08.2022
…Herculaneum, Italy. Asilah, Morocco. Render as a convenient surface. Traditional house, Carmona. Peeling layers of colour on render, Lisbon. Photographs of Morocco and Barcelona by Tom Thistlethwaite, others Philippa Lewis….
Freddie Phillipson ‘The Ulysses Project’ – Review
18.07.2022
Freddie Phillipson ‘The Ulysses Project’ – Review18.07.2022
…the nature of architectural and urban order. Freddie Phillipson ‘The Ulysses Project’, installation at the Irish Architectural Archive. Photos: Freddie Phillipson. In my view, Ulysses is the best account of…
On Bramante (2022) – Review
22.08.2022
On Bramante (2022) – Review22.08.2022
– Oliver Lütjens and Thomas Padmanabhan
…that is in favour of a certain flatness of things. Donato Bramante, upper order, Cloister of Santa Maria della Pace, Rome, 1500–1504. © Bas Princen. Donato Bramante, lower order, Cloister…
Other Lives: Charles Eisen and Laugier’s Essai sur l’Architecture
26.12.2019
Other Lives: Charles Eisen and Laugier’s Essai sur l’Architecture26.12.2019
– Rebecca Williamson
…represent a period subsequent to the primitive state of the tree structure, and yet, as ruins of an older culture, they represent a superseded past, with the gesture toward the…
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