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Isolation or participation?

Isolation or participation?

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…

Jean-Baptiste Lassus’s Sainte-Chapelle

Jean-Baptiste Lassus’s Sainte-Chapelle

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

Buckminster Fuller

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.

Haus-Rücker-Co.

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)

A Brutal Matter (1962)

Walter Pichler

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

Zünd-Up: ‘psycho-dynamic’ street and park system

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

James Gowan: The Expandable House

Markus Lähteenmäki

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

Five Boxes

Michael Craig-Martin

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)

The Open Hand (1954)

Le Corbusier

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

Future Scenarios, Part I

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

Wagnerschule

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

Simplification

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…