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Henri Guerbois: Department Store in King Street, 1921
05.10.2021
Henri Guerbois: Department Store in King Street, 192105.10.2021
…Thanks to Catriona Perry at the House of Fraser Archive at Glasgow University for identifying the site for me. See: Survey of London, vol. 42, Kensington Square to Earl’s Court,…
PC Harry Woodley: Plans of No 131 Cornwall Street, 1902
17.09.2021
PC Harry Woodley: Plans of No 131 Cornwall Street, 190217.09.2021
…making crime scene plans for Old Bailey trials (National Archives MEPO 4/343/199). The full transcript of William Brake’s trial can be found at oldbaileyonline.org (reference number t19020909-582). It took place…
Turning Point: The US Embassy in Dublin
17.08.2022
Turning Point: The US Embassy in Dublin17.08.2022
…Murray is an architect and author. He is currently working on a book on the architecture of the American Embassy in Dublin. This text was submitted to the Archive category…
Pan Scoll Zoom 19: Pier Vittorio Aureli and Maria S. Giudici
19.01.2022
Pan Scoll Zoom 19: Pier Vittorio Aureli and Maria S. Giudici19.01.2022
– Pier Vittorio Aureli, Fabrizio Gallanti and Maria S. Giudici
…Files that problematise the concept of the archive. Drawings can indeed celebrate a new type of architectural culture – a more inclusive one, that doesn’t necessarily speak English, that is…
From Afar
17.11.2022
From Afar17.11.2022
…information from an online archive. Violet marked a ‘house owned by diaspora member’ – pink denoted a ‘residential building, with most of the flats owned by younger diaspora members’ –…
Queensway, Hong Kong
04.11.2022
Queensway, Hong Kong04.11.2022
…1769. Internet Archive. Patte’s celebrated contribution to urban representation often ends with his famous section. While it was familiar to me, the double-page plan that accompanies the section was not….
The Extended Portal: Atcost
28.02.2022
The Extended Portal: Atcost28.02.2022
…structures from the eighteeth and nineteenth centuries, one of which has been recently converted by architect Hugh Strange for use as an archive for the storage of rare architectural drawings….
Robert Adam: The Long Gallery at Syon
13.05.2022
Robert Adam: The Long Gallery at Syon13.05.2022
– Stephen Astley, Adriano Aymonino, Markus Lähteenmäki and Frances Sands
On 18 December 2015, Frances Sands and Stephen Astley took out two leather-bound volumes from the Robert Adam Archive and laid them on the long table in the first-floor library…
36 Elevations
12.07.2021
36 Elevations12.07.2021
…of a continuity of ideas that I have been toying with for the last 40 years. 16. Archive In the 1980s, I visited Vicenza and undertook a study of Palladio’s…
Pan Scroll Zoom 5: Andrés Jaque
16.12.2020
Pan Scroll Zoom 5: Andrés Jaque16.12.2020
– Fabrizio Gallanti and Andrés Jaque
…instead, extremely valuable. AJ: The fact that pedagogical interaction is now broadly mediated, registered and archived in privately owned infrastructures, of which we know little about how likely they are…
Pan Scroll Zoom 15: Other Architects
07.07.2021
Pan Scroll Zoom 15: Other Architects07.07.2021
– Fabrizio Gallanti, Grace Mortlock and David Neustein
…that– DN: It’s gone! It’s in the bin! That file has been superseded! Now the digital space creates an archive of the whole process, and you’re therefore able to assess…
Fernando Higueras: The Volcano, The Flower, and The Dromedary
09.05.2022
Fernando Higueras: The Volcano, The Flower, and The Dromedary09.05.2022
…is an architect and PhD candidate in History & Theory of Architecture at Princeton University. This text was entered into the General Archive category for the 2021 Drawing Matter Writing Prize….
Mies: The Horizon
14.06.2020
Mies: The Horizon14.06.2020
…Ideas During the English Revolution (Harmondsworth, 1975). Mies Archive, MoMA. Alberti, On Painting, 44, 58. Often Mies’s ceilings seem to get light from nowhere. In the exhibit for the glass industry at…
Freestanding: Sigurd Lewerentz
20.06.2018
Freestanding: Sigurd Lewerentz20.06.2018
…London, 1989 and perpetuated through the writing of contemporary architects across the world. Holding Lewerentz’s complete archive, including manuscripts and correspondence as well as drawings, photographs and films, ArkDes has…
Displaced Persons
03.10.2012
Displaced Persons03.10.2012
– Niall Hobhouse and Nicholas Olsberg
…the foreground while a scarlet jester dances, arms akimbo, under a distant arch of the royal archives. Framing these new sites as distanced vistas, inhabiting them with figures and atmosphere…
Marco Frascari
20.10.2018
Marco Frascari20.10.2018
…(Folded Paper 1), April 1, 2010. Marco Frascari, There are two versions of this drawing in the digital archive of Frascari. One is titled The Facture, and the other, The…
Pan Scroll Zoom 1: Fabrizio Gallanti
30.07.2020
Pan Scroll Zoom 1: Fabrizio Gallanti30.07.2020
…Institute in Chicago, curator Maite Borjabad commissioned a specific work in order to show the complex AutoCAD archives of the Seattle Library by Rem Koolhaas/ OMA. On a screen it…
The Drawing as Actor
05.09.2017
The Drawing as Actor05.09.2017
…with care using a model The drawings for the buildings on Stalinallee are available at the Deutsche Bauakademie archive Workers in all workplaces are discussing the proposal of the SED…
Shower at Shatwell Farm
21.12.2020
Shower at Shatwell Farm21.12.2020
…while the fifth became the spine of the stairs. Offcuts of the timber laminate used in building the Drawing Matter Archive formed the wall on which the stainless-steel toilet, shower head…
The James Clarke Remake
20.07.2021
The James Clarke Remake20.07.2021
– Oscar Binder and Nikolaus Podlaha
…archive of her late husband’s body of work. The collection included the main drawing describing the Yamamoto Library. This piece had only been seen by a small number of people…
The Beaux-Arts Tradition
29.04.2021
The Beaux-Arts Tradition29.04.2021
– Basile Baudez and Maureen Cassidy-Geiger
…the Salon of 1900, for which he received a gold medal (figs. 35 and 36). Though the École retained some of the envois for their archives, a resource which survives…
Insignificance 3: Mourning Work
09.06.2021
Insignificance 3: Mourning Work09.06.2021
…were built in Germany between 1933 and 1945 in order to gear up the economy for first war and then total war. In the Auschwitz archives I encountered many of…
The H-plan: Breuer, Stirling, Gowan
05.08.2021
The H-plan: Breuer, Stirling, Gowan05.08.2021
– Anthony Vidler
…an open living area. (See my James Frazer Stirling: Notes From the Archive, 36–38.) James Frazer Stirling, plans for House for the Architect, c. 1949. Ink on cardboard, 251 × 255…
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