Survey: John Goldicutt, Temple of Vespasian
25 August 2021
Survey: John Goldicutt, Temple of Vespasian25 August 2021
…decoration restored. New surveys were therefore required. As Robert Adam explained in a 1755 letter to his brother from Rome, the way to do it was to make all the…
Richard J. Neutra: Visitor Center at Gettysburg National Park
22 August 2016
Richard J. Neutra: Visitor Center at Gettysburg National Park22 August 2016
…expand visitor and interpretive centres in the national parks by engaging distinguished modern architects to design them, Richard Neutra, then in partnership with Robert Alexander, was invited to develop a…
A souvenir and survey
22 June 2017
A souvenir and survey22 June 2017
…same representational techniques. They tour together, use the same tools and study the same objects. Painters like Giovanni Paolo Panini in Italy or Hubert Robert in France are selling huge…
Future Scenarios, Part II
31 May 2016
Future Scenarios, Part II31 May 2016
– Niall Hobhouse and Nicholas Olsberg
…emperors (or Robert Moses) — is also tuned to the melody of that other Wordsworth who saw in ruins the “still sad music of humanity” and delighted in the melancholy…
Trees Make A Plan
7 October 2020
Trees Make A Plan7 October 2020
…Rykwert with Neil Leach and Robert Tavernor (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1988), 9, 25. An early Italian edition of Alberti’s De re aedificatoria uses the word pianta several times, particularly when the discussion concerns dimensions. See Leon Battista…
Paolo Portoghesi: the Field Theory
9 November 2020
Paolo Portoghesi: the Field Theory9 November 2020
…delle macchine alle macchine inutili (Milan: Edizioni Medusa, 2015), 32. Mario Carpo, The Alphabet and the Algorithm (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011). Roberto Bottazzi, Digital Architecture beyond Computers (London: Bloomsbury,…
Architecture and Geology
7 February 2017
Architecture and Geology7 February 2017
Map of North-West Europe, showing urbanisation overlaid on clay, gravel, sand and coal deposits. Clay: brown; gravel: red-brown; sand: beige; coal: dark grey. Witherford Watson Mann Architects/Labo S, University of…
Pan Scroll Zoom 5: Andrés Jaque
16 December 2020
Pan Scroll Zoom 5: Andrés Jaque16 December 2020
– Fabrizio Gallanti and Andrés Jaque
…a predominantly Puerto Rican population were destroyed and a large number of these citizens ended up deported, as Robert Moses stated, ‘where the rail ends,’ in Rockaway Beach, on land…
Thomas Chippendale and Ornament
13 January 2021
Thomas Chippendale and Ornament13 January 2021
…a shipwreck. The 1770s saw this ebullient asymmetry subside, with shallower relief and simpler forms characterising Chippendale’s neoclassical collaborations with Robert Adam. And yet it is Chippendale’s beginnings that resonate…
Re-presenting the Rococo
24 February 2021
Re-presenting the Rococo24 February 2021
…the reader to understand only the most basic information about the architectural skeleton. St Michael is better served photographically than most of these churches as a result of Robert Stalla’s thorough 1989 monograph with fifteen colour…
Singing Songs of Piccadilly: Review
16 February 2021
Singing Songs of Piccadilly: Review16 February 2021
– Editors
…would it cost, Sir Robert, to close the Park to the public?’ Walpole – ‘May it please your Majesty, but Three Crowns – your own, your husband’s and your son’s’…
Barthélemy Enfantin
12 September 2016
Barthélemy Enfantin12 September 2016
– Helen Thomas
…the drawing bear comparison with Joseph Paxton’s blotting paper sketch made in 1850 for the Crystal Palace. Both Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Robert Stephenson were members of the building committee….
elevation presentation civic & municipal DMC