Guy Debord—An Art of War
29 November 2023
Guy Debord—An Art of War29 November 2023
– Laurence Le Bras and Emmanuel Guy
…are those of freedom’ [7], recalls Debord in ‘Théorie de la dérive’, which he published in November 1956. Inherited from Baudelaire’s walks in Paris or those of Thomas De Quincey…
Elbe and Marte
13 September 2023
Elbe and Marte13 September 2023
– Karen Lohrmann and Stefano de Martino
…peninsula, blinding the scenery in a furious mist crackling with thunder and lightning, ‘My Bloody Valentine’ crashing down in sheets of rain. The story goes that it is always sunny…
Drawing with Rafael Moneo, Madrid 1984
14 March 2019
Drawing with Rafael Moneo, Madrid 198414 March 2019
…Moneo’s office: everything drawn in pencil, exclusively 2H lead, the softness of which meant that it had to be sharpened constantly in order to keep the lines crisp, but also…
Glasgow School of Art: The Measure of Things
8 March 2021
Glasgow School of Art: The Measure of Things8 March 2021
…of the detail in the building then, the ‘signatures’ needed to be viewed in the wider context of the architectural sequences, elements and spaces. In order to do that, I…
The Language of Architecture: Peter Märkli’s system of proportion
15 June 2021
The Language of Architecture: Peter Märkli’s system of proportion15 June 2021
…to design; just as a musician trains to hear the sounds of music before beginning to compose. [1] The earliest expressions of a strict mathematical order are recorded in Egypt…
Landscape situations
21 January 2011
Landscape situations21 January 2011
– Niall Hobhouse and Nicholas Olsberg
…two elements. Derek Boshier (1937), Finger (no. 2), 16 Situations, 1971. Mounted photograph with markup trace overlay, 110 × 160 mm. DMC 1252.2. Derek Boshier (1937), Flock of 40,000 snow…
W. R. Lethaby: The Builder’s Art and the Craftsman
24 October 2022
W. R. Lethaby: The Builder’s Art and the Craftsman24 October 2022
…significant shift in thinking with the essay, ‘The Builder’s Art and the Craftsman’. The text appeared in a collection of thirteen essays – including contributions from Norman Shaw, Ernest Newton…
Fragmentary Notes on Unclaiming the Life of a Drawing
13 October 2023
Fragmentary Notes on Unclaiming the Life of a Drawing13 October 2023
…creates variegated coexistences of ‘I’s of different temporalities. While the reader recites the poet’s lines, as Joseph Luzzi argues, ‘the reader dislodges the lyric “I” of the poet by repeating…
Drawing Sacred Forests and Courtyards in South Benin
29 January 2021
Drawing Sacred Forests and Courtyards in South Benin29 January 2021
…said earlier, some vodun have generated principles that could be described as urbanistic. This cult was established under King Tegbesu in the eighteenth century to manage disorder in the kingdom…
Joan Littlewood’s Memos to Cedric Price
21 November 2022
Joan Littlewood’s Memos to Cedric Price21 November 2022
…V. Folder ‘Joan Littlewood Correspondence’, Cedric Price Personal Papers, St. Johns Library Special Collections. Figure 6. Cedric Price, memo by Joan Littlewood addressed to ‘Zee Breisz’, R. Folder ‘Joan Littlewood…
What’s a Bludder Sketch?
28 February 2022
What’s a Bludder Sketch?28 February 2022
…for the comedy magazine Blandaren, of which Lindroos was a regular contributor under the pseudonym LAZY. In a 2013 edition of Osqledaren, Hugi Ásgeirsson described the great ritual involved in…
Adolphe Appia: ‘Luminous – Very Luminous’
27 November 2019
Adolphe Appia: ‘Luminous – Very Luminous’27 November 2019
– Ross Anderson
…the actor. In order to make the drawings somewhat palatable, and to make a positive impression on the reader, the author has attempted to give them more relief through certain…
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