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Startha Éagsula: Paul Dillon Architects on Florian Beigel and Philip Christou

Startha Éagsula: Paul Dillon Architects on Florian Beigel and Philip Christou

Paul Dillon

the third installation of Alternative Histories at the Irish Architectural Archive. Startha Éagsula / Alternative Histories is now available to purchase from Drawing Matter’s bookshop, here. Back to all models…

High Ground

High Ground

Colette Sheddick and Pierre d'Avoine

…Hadspen to study the Malagueira archive. The major design project encompassed the design of buildings, infrastructure and an attitude to ordering the landscape, with an emphasis on visionary environmental scenarios and…

Startha Éagsula: Níall McLaughlin Architects on Basil Spence

Startha Éagsula: Níall McLaughlin Architects on Basil Spence

Níall McLaughlin

the Irish Architectural Archive. Startha Éagsula / Alternative Histories is now available to purchase from Drawing Matter’s bookshop, here. Níall McLaughlin Architects, Basil Spence’s sketch for the enlargement of the

Malagueira and Évora, Portugal

Malagueira and Évora, Portugal

Cathy Hawley and Hugh Strange

…than precise sites. In many instances this lead on from the research the students had been doing individually and the pieces they had selected and responded to from the Archive….

Preamble to a New World (1963)

Preamble to a New World (1963)

Constant

Constant (1920–2005), Frontispiece for New Babylon, 1963. Lithograph, 155 × 200 mm. DMC 1472.11. Stones speak. Towns speak. Ruins and skylines: the story of the people. From ‘Preamble to a New…

Sketch from Vézelay from letter to Mérimée (1843)

Sketch from Vézelay from letter to Mérimée (1843)

Eugène Viollet-le-Duc

Eugène Viollet-le-Duc (1814–1879), sketch from Vézelay, from an album of pencil drawings, 1850. Pencil on paper. DMC 1713. From a letter to Mérimée written in 1843 from Vézelay: You, Sir,…

The hatred of rendering (1930)

The hatred of rendering (1930)

Le Corbusier

Le Corbusier (1887–1965), model of south wall, Chapel de Notre-Dame-du-Haut, Ronchamp, c.1950–1951. Plaster, 127 × 216 × 38 mm. DMC 1439. The following has been extracted from a lecture delivered…

Erik Gunnar Asplund: the father

Erik Gunnar Asplund: the father

Nicholas Olsberg

Erik Gunnar Asplund (1885–1940), Stennäs (Asplund Summer House), Sarunda, Sweden, 1937. Pencil on tracing paper mounted on board, 229 × 376 mm. DMC 1251. Erik Gunnar Asplund’s son Ingemar told…

History & Origins

History & Origins

Aldo Rossi

Aldo Rossi (1931–1997), Urban fragment, 1977. Ink, oil crayon and felt pen on paper, 300 × 290 mm. DMC 1799. © Eredi Aldo Rossi. And these old drawings […] now…

John Lautner: house and studio for Edgar Ewing

John Lautner: house and studio for Edgar Ewing

Nicholas Olsberg

John Lautner (1911–1994), Suspended scheme, house and studio for the artist Edgar Ewing on Mt Washington, Los Angeles, 1952. Print with colour wash and crayon, 780 × 780 mm. DMC…

A life of their own (1985)

A life of their own (1985)

Paul Rudolph

Paul Rudolph (1918–1997), Model Flap House for Grand Rapids housing exhibition, 1955. Black and brown ink with pencil underdrawing, 654 × 1060 mm. DMC 2301. Paul Rudolph (1918–1997), Model Flap…

Buckminster Fuller: Six Patents

Buckminster Fuller: Six Patents

1-170-604: Zelthaut für ein kugelkalottenförmiges Zeltgestell Richard Buckminster Fuller, Patent 1170604, page 1, 1964. Imprint, 295 × 200 mm. DMC 2246.3.1. Richard Buckminster Fuller, Patent 1170604, page 2, 1964. Imprint,…