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Eric Gill On Designing War Graves (1919)

Eric Gill On Designing War Graves (1919)

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…

Startha Éagsula: David Leech Architects on Barthélemy Enfantin

Startha Éagsula: David Leech Architects on Barthélemy Enfantin

David Leech

…whispers our model becomes a twenty-first-century speculation. Contemporary filters distort our perception – new modelling techniques, modernism and Mies, all forming a new twin or non-identical clone. Mis-reading, mis-remembering and…

Tom de Paor: ‘i see Earth’, Building and Ground 1991–2021 – Review

Tom de Paor: ‘i see Earth’, Building and Ground 1991–2021 – Review

Andrew Clancy

…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…

Architectonic Landscapes

Architectonic Landscapes

Deanna Petherbridge

…and Middle East, the impetus was to embrace underlying formal values that were radically under fire at the time from Pop Art (except perhaps for Richard Hamilton) and abstract expressionism,…

Niall McLaughlin

Niall McLaughlin

Níall McLaughlin

…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

Drawing the Brunswick Centre

Birkin Haward

…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

Objects That Meet

Lars Lerup

…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

Gabriel Pierre Martin Dumont

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

Conjunction and Incongruity

Polly Gould

…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

Writing Prize 2020: Pens down, Braid up

Cassandra Adjei

…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

The Imperial Palace of God

George Elliot

…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

The Destruction of the City of Homs

Deanna Petherbridge

…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…