Tom de Paor: ‘i see Earth’, Building and Ground 1991–2021 – Review
4 March 2022
Tom de Paor: ‘i see Earth’, Building and Ground 1991–2021 – Review4 March 2022
…the measure of the earth, and the measure of measure itself. Latent here is architecture’s own history – constantly walking this line between its autonomies and its fundamental interconnection with…
Niall McLaughlin
17 March 2018
Niall McLaughlin17 March 2018
…breakfast time you are here. So you move around. And these funny coloured lines are – people with dementia, not all but most, have this very strong desire to wander.…
Drawing the Brunswick Centre
19 July 2021
Drawing the Brunswick Centre19 July 2021
…using photomontage figures. Earlier at the AA several of us made use of real photographic landscapes cut into our perspectives, rather in the manner that Mies used them in his…
Objects That Meet
15 August 2022
Objects That Meet15 August 2022
…particularly in the eyes of connoisseurs. Lifted out of this spectrum and off the floor, placed on the imaginary marble slab and put under dissection – under reduction to non-reducible…
Gabriel Pierre Martin Dumont
7 January 2018
Gabriel Pierre Martin Dumont7 January 2018
– Editors
…Piazza by Bernini. Serried ranks of trees rather than stone walls and columns are used to marshal a vast landscape into a perfect emblem of order. Each of the countless…
Conjunction and Incongruity
1 September 2018
Conjunction and Incongruity1 September 2018
…Pyramid, with decorative border and description in corner scrolls; and a contemporary obelisk by Peter and Alison Smithson, Obelisk for Hadspen House, a print with four elevations. Nobuo Sekine (1942–2019),…
Writing Prize 2020: Pens down, Braid up
17 December 2020
Writing Prize 2020: Pens down, Braid up17 December 2020
…a salon in Harlem, inspired by West African braiding techniques under the backdrop of the Manhattan skyline, he conceived a series of work entitled ‘Tresses’. During a residency at the Contemporary…
The Imperial Palace of God
9 May 2016
The Imperial Palace of God9 May 2016
…THE PROHIBITION OF THE BIBLE, LAW, PHYSICK, DIVINITY. THE ARMIES, AND NAVIES, POLICE, JAILS, MADHOUSES, POORHOUSES, DENS, CELLS. THE PUBLICK WORKS. OF THE WORLD, ALL SLAVERY, AND RUIN. THE DETESTABLE…
The Destruction of the City of Homs
28 November 2016
The Destruction of the City of Homs28 November 2016
…the conquering armies to move on to further slaughter. This was my thinking behind the triptych, which could be augmented on every side as it doesn’t have a beginning or…
Eric Gill On Designing War Graves (1919)
11 May 2021
Eric Gill On Designing War Graves (1919)11 May 2021
– Eric Gill
…and under the plea of commemorating ‘the sense of comradeship and common service’ and ‘the spirit of discipline and order’, etc. (vide ‘Report’), it is hoped that the very widespread…
memorial & monument public space DMC