1328 texts about architecture in drawings, models and photography.
791 writers on
889 architects.
Guide for submissions
The San Cataldo Ossuary in the Age of Hyper-Objects
16.04.2020
The San Cataldo Ossuary in the Age of Hyper-Objects16.04.2020
Stefano Corbo, San Cataldo’s Ossuary: multi-directional extrusions, 2020. © Stefano Corbo. I An abandoned house – a derelict phantom with no roof and no windows – reveals the twofold condition…
Alternative Histories: Nikolaus Bienefeld on James Gowan
30.07.2019
Alternative Histories: Nikolaus Bienefeld on James Gowan30.07.2019
…wie die Skizze durch die Art des Striches, der Farbigkeit, der Detaillierung eine oder viele Interpretationen ermöglicht, so eröffnet die Wahl und der Umgang mit dem Material des Modells eine größtmögliche…
William Butterfield
06.12.2017
William Butterfield06.12.2017
…through which a project could be comprehended, as instructions from which his contractors and clients could not swerve, and as precise statements of specification on which the builder’s tender could…
Schinkel
08.02.2019
Schinkel08.02.2019
…als Künstler bald überm..ig in Anspruch nahm,” Gustav Friedrich Waagen, “Karl Friedrich Schinkel als Mensch und als Künstler,” in Berliner Kalender auf das Schalt-Jahr 1844 (Berlin: Preußische Kalender Deputation, 1844),…
Lines, Drawings, the Human Condition
13.10.2021
Lines, Drawings, the Human Condition13.10.2021
– Tim Ingold, Momoyo Kaijima, Andreas Kalpakci and Anh-linh Ngo
…they are quite different, in so far as ethnography is fundamentally a descriptive endeavor. You take the world as you find it and you try to render it in great…
The Italian Job: Anthony Salvin, Sir John Benson and the Royal Cork Yacht Club, Cóbh
27.10.2021
The Italian Job: Anthony Salvin, Sir John Benson and the Royal Cork Yacht Club, Cóbh27.10.2021
…eve of its opening and why were the drawings all signed by the contractor, not Salvin? What was the builder’s role in the design? Lastly, another Cork architect and builder,…
Cedric Price: Parc de la Villette
18.11.2024
Cedric Price: Parc de la Villette18.11.2024
…at the Architectural Association, London, in November 1989, in order to challenge the complicity of concurrent architecture within the commodification of fun. For ‘fun buildings’ crucially lack the active force…
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…
R. Norman Shaw
11.03.2018
R. Norman Shaw11.03.2018
…in a new and broader direction, under the influence of G. F. Bodley and George Gilbert Scott, Jr. It is a well-documented building. By a stroke of luck, among the…
Comins x Shatwell Tea House
25.08.2023
Comins x Shatwell Tea House25.08.2023
– Various
…the co-founder and visionary of the Comins x Shatwell Tea House. ‘Bringing tea to Shatwell was something I instinctively wanted to do since meeting Michelle 2 years ago; but little…
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…
Drawing Powers: Introduction
02.11.2021
Drawing Powers: Introduction02.11.2021
…a design? To answer it, we will consider only design drawings, excluding other types of drawing such as presentation drawings. We will also consider only architectural drawings, although this study…
Jesús Vassallo’s Epics in the Everyday (2019): Review & Excerpt
14.06.2021
Jesús Vassallo’s Epics in the Everyday (2019): Review & Excerpt14.06.2021
…regarding photography’s relationship to reality. The initial social documentary project of the 1930s, in which Evans partially participated, relied on the perception of photography as trans-parent in order to channel…
Goldfinger—Planning Your Neighbourhood
14.10.2024
Goldfinger—Planning Your Neighbourhood14.10.2024
…Neighbourhood highlighted people and their behaviours in order to demonstrate that the actions of everyday living should shape new dwellings and their surroundings. Exhibitiongoers met panels that depicted how planned…
Anton Markus Pasing
30.01.2025
Anton Markus Pasing30.01.2025
…Windmill on Polder by Paul Joseph Constantin Gabriel—romantic in the extreme—a windmill firmly anchored in polder mud, the land is slowly and patiently being made (Aeolian pumping), a glimpse of…
Comins × Shatwell Tea House
05.05.2025
Comins × Shatwell Tea House05.05.2025
…Matchett Kendra and Niall are the custodians of Shatwell Farm. Kendra concentrates on events at Shatwell and is the co-founder and visionary of the Comins x Shatwell Tea House. ‘Bringing…
Christoph Schlingensiefs Operndorf Afrika (2020): Review
27.09.2021
Christoph Schlingensiefs Operndorf Afrika (2020): Review27.09.2021
…book. Operndorf Afrika’s content is presented in a relaxed manner, with minimal hierarchy, easing the reader into the subject and providing a holistic understanding of this work, from a variety…
R for Representation
27.09.2021
R for Representation27.09.2021
…The artefacts that are left at the end of the process represent these ways of thinking as a reminder, a remainder, or sometimes only as trash. They are not created…
An Overwhelming Concern with Shelter! (1966)
16.09.2021
An Overwhelming Concern with Shelter! (1966)16.09.2021
…with Derek Paul, marks a peak in the achievement of the group. This event, which included a large exhibition of photographs and models, was attended by over 600 people and…
Animals
05.05.2020
Animals05.05.2020
– James Gowan and Ellis Woodman
…couple of days later. It was that sense of wonder I was aiming for. EW: The drawings have something in common with the collages that Hans Hollein was producing in…
Daria’s Aria
23.04.2020
Daria’s Aria23.04.2020
– Sarah Handelman
…almost identical line-up of contributors, with Ponti himself writing under, apparently, 22 different pen names. Guarnati’s vision also found its way to America, in the form of the iconoclastic Flair, founded…
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