High Ground
19 September 2016
High Ground19 September 2016
– 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
4 November 2020
Startha Éagsula: Níall McLaughlin Architects on Basil Spence4 November 2020
…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
19 September 2016
Malagueira and Évora, Portugal19 September 2016
– 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)
4 September 2015
Preamble to a New World (1963)4 September 2015
– 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)
31 July 2015
Sketch from Vézelay from letter to Mérimée (1843)31 July 2015
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)
1 August 2015
The hatred of rendering (1930)1 August 2015
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
14 August 2015
Erik Gunnar Asplund: the father14 August 2015
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
21 August 2015
History & Origins21 August 2015
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
28 August 2015
John Lautner: house and studio for Edgar Ewing28 August 2015
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)
28 August 2015
A life of their own (1985)28 August 2015
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
2 October 2015
Buckminster Fuller: Six Patents2 October 2015
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,…
Startha Éagsula: Paul Dillon Architects on Florian Beigel and Philip Christou
26 November 2020
Startha Éagsula: Paul Dillon Architects on Florian Beigel and Philip Christou26 November 2020
– 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…
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