Jean-Baptiste Lassus’s Sainte-Chapelle
1 October 2015
Jean-Baptiste Lassus’s Sainte-Chapelle1 October 2015
Jean-Baptiste Lassus (1807–1857), View of the Sainte-Chapelle during the Reign of Saint-Louis, 1838. Watercolour with highlights in gold, 315 × 205 mm. DMC 1048. The watercolour of the Sainte-Chapelle drawn…
Buckminster Fuller
1 October 2015
Buckminster Fuller1 October 2015
Richard Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983), study drawing, Geodesic Sphere, 1975. Pen on paper, 610 × 480 mm. DMC 1022. Slenderness, Lightness, and Strength. From Inventions: The Patented Works of R. Buckminster…
Haus-Rücker-Co.
9 October 2015
Haus-Rücker-Co.9 October 2015
Haus-Rücker-Co., Conference Room, ‘Wind Cover’ project, Museum Haus Lange, 1971. Photomechanical print from a pencil and coloured pencil drawing, 300 × 400 mm. DMC 1984. This art collective – we…
A Brutal Matter (1962)
16 October 2015
A Brutal Matter (1962)16 October 2015
Walter Pichler (1936–2012), study for an Underground City, 1960–1964. Pen and ink and photo collage on wove paper, 300 × 350 mm. DMC 2367. Architecture … is a brutal matter…
Zünd-Up: ‘psycho-dynamic’ street and park system
23 October 2015
Zünd-Up: ‘psycho-dynamic’ street and park system23 October 2015
Zünd-Up, The Great Vienna Auto Expander, 1969. Pencil and red ink on tracing paper, 300 × 490 mm. DMC 2157.2. An element in this Viennese collective’s proposal to extend the…
James Gowan: The Expandable House
1 November 2015
James Gowan: The Expandable House1 November 2015
James Gowan (1923–2015), Dismantled sketchbook, 1956. Pencil and ink on wove paper, 138 × 335 mm. DMC 2355.1r. James Gowan and James Stirling, first as partners (1956–1963) and then in…
Five Boxes
10 June 2015
Five Boxes10 June 2015
Michael Craig-Martin (1941), Five identical boxes with progression of lids in colours – not executed, 1969. Tape on graph paper, 440 × 570 mm. DMC 2038. Line drawing — drawing…
The Open Hand (1954)
1 November 2015
The Open Hand (1954)1 November 2015
Le Corbusier (1887–1965), section, Open Hand Monument with Modular Man, c.1954. Brown ink, pencil and green and yellow crayon on trace, 280 × 400 mm. DMC 1733. The Open Hand…
Future Scenarios, Part I
30 May 2013
Future Scenarios, Part I30 May 2013
– Niall Hobhouse and Nicholas Olsberg
George Elliot, The Imperial Palace of God, 1856. Ink and wash on paper, laid on canvas, 1004 × 673 mm. DMC 2606. Capturing the rainbow: the city of tomorrow On…
Wagnerschule
1 June 2015
Wagnerschule1 June 2015
The drawings of Emil Hoppe (1876 – 1957) and Otto Schönthal (1878–1961) attracted particular interest in the Land Marks exhibition, and people were eager for us to share them more widely. They…
Simplification
6 May 2011
Simplification6 May 2011
– Niall Hobhouse and Nicholas Olsberg
The first of these short excursions into work on paper looked at how drawings were used to place built forms in their settings. Grounded in traditions of illustration, they were…
Isolation or participation?
11 September 2015
Isolation or participation?11 September 2015
– Ugo La Pietra
Ugo La Pietra (1938), Immersioni – Uomouovosfera, 1969–1970. Print on wove paper,, 108 × 235 mm. DMC 2243.2. Isolation or participation? The immersions were allusions to two contrary attitudes ever…
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