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Alternative Histories: Schneider Türtscher on Álvaro Siza
28 February 2019
Alternative Histories: Schneider Türtscher on Álvaro Siza28 February 2019
Schneider Türtscher, Álvaro Siza’s sketch for SAAL Bouça Housing, 2018. Grey cardboard, corrugated cardboard, spruce sticks, pencil, glue, acrylic paint, clear lacquer, 230 × 200 × 120 mm. Álvaro Siza…
Francesco Milizia on Maderno, Posi and Jonson
7 November 2019
Francesco Milizia on Maderno, Posi and Jonson7 November 2019
…of displeasure would imperceptibly be exited towards the presumptuous Maderno. It is easy to perceive whence this grand defect arises, when we consider the disproportion between the two lateral aisles…
The Zilsel Thesis: A Review of Strata: William Smith’s Geological Maps (2020): Review
4 May 2021
The Zilsel Thesis: A Review of Strata: William Smith’s Geological Maps (2020): Review4 May 2021
…sculptors, metalworkers, and builders needed both practical and theoretical knowledge in order to work effectively. As cities concentrated production and grew into centres of commerce, an atmosphere of competition encouraged…
Power & Public Space 6: André Patrão – Eisenman, Derrida, and Chora L Works (Parc de la Villette)
22 July 2022
Power & Public Space 6: André Patrão – Eisenman, Derrida, and Chora L Works (Parc de la Villette)22 July 2022
– Matthew Blunderfield and André Patrão
…A collaboration between Peter Eisenman and Jaques Derrida, the unrealised Chora project was intended to stand within the Parc de la Villette complex as an ode to a dialogue between…
Materia 5: Timber
18 April 2023
Materia 5: Timber18 April 2023
…we choose to look beyond line’s docility, to consider the conceptual space of the page—the very ground of representation itself—we start to glimpse a more complex field, which, under close…
DMJ – ‘All the varieties of Nature’s works under ground’: the Geological Imagination of Alexander Pope
9 December 2022
DMJ – ‘All the varieties of Nature’s works under ground’: the Geological Imagination of Alexander Pope9 December 2022
Alexander Pope, Plan of the Twickenham Grotto, placed on a letter from William Oliver to William Borlase dated January 1740. Courtesy of the Morrab Library, Penzance. In 1739, the English…
Relics of Electronic Hallucinations
11 July 2024
Relics of Electronic Hallucinations11 July 2024
…the prowess of early electronic computers—initially developed for the Manhattan Project, the T-3 lab, working under the auspices of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission—successfully simulated and visualised the complex behaviour…
W. R. Lethaby: Philip Webb and His Work
3 February 2023
W. R. Lethaby: Philip Webb and His Work3 February 2023
…William Lethaby’s great hero; he considered his life and work the model for an architect. Webb was a generation older than Lethaby, and the two men most likely first met…
Material Reform, Building for a Post-Carbon Future (2023) – Review
23 June 2023
Material Reform, Building for a Post-Carbon Future (2023) – Review23 June 2023
…and labour economies behind materials. Alienation, a key concept of Marxism and originally defined by Karl Marx as alienation from the product and process of labour as well as from…
The Project of Independence: Architectures of Decolonization in South Asia, 1947-1985 (2022) – Review
10 November 2022
The Project of Independence: Architectures of Decolonization in South Asia, 1947-1985 (2022) – Review10 November 2022
…David Almeida. MoMA has done its part by employing its own perception of display-worthy artefacts of modern architecture and expanding its geographical scope in order to participate in the writing…
Ugliness and Judgment
19 April 2019
Ugliness and Judgment19 April 2019
– Timothy Hyde
John Wood, survey showing the rectilinear forms and measurements used to derive the outlines of the irregular stones at Stonehenge, 1747. In the summer of 1740, John Wood the Elder…
plan topographic/cartographic survey publication memorial & monument