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1328 texts about architecture in drawings, models and photography. 792 writers on 890 architects.
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Eric Parry: India, 1975
07.02.2019

Eric Parry: India, 197507.02.2019

– Eric Parry

…cofounder of ASAG – Ahmedabad Study Action Group. Eric Parry (1952), India sketchbook, p.19, 1975. Pencil on paper. This next page of text refers to ASAG who are a group…

sketch survey urban form public space

OMA in Scheveningen
22.07.2020

OMA in Scheveningen22.07.2020

– Willem Jan Neutelings

…OMA-theatre was demolished in 2016. After municipal elections, the commission was awarded to another consortium of architects and contractors, their new theatre complex is under construction at present. The purpose…

concept & diagram DMC culture record urban form topographic/cartographic survey Extracts: Where to Begin?

Mussolini and the Tomb of Augustus in the Spring of 1935
20.11.2018

Mussolini and the Tomb of Augustus in the Spring of 193520.11.2018

– John David Rhodes

…posterity by the classical past. Phrased differently: these monuments, or their ruins, could not project themselves into the future while being crowded out or under the accretions of the intervening…

presentation urban form public space DMC

Cedric Price: Bathat
08.08.2016

Cedric Price: Bathat08.08.2016

– Helen Mallinson

…sit astride a flying platform. We instantly recognise the volume and mass of Battersea Power Station; but the weight has vanished with the walls. The uplift is palpable: thin red…

urban form DMC sketch projection (axonometric isometric) housing industry & infrastructure

Behind the Lines 2
19.12.2017

Behind the Lines 219.12.2017

– Philippa Lewis

…in Life, the fitted cupboards with the open curved shelf-end forming a room divider between the cooking and eating in the dinette. Here, pride of place, she planned a glass-topped table –…

interior behind the lines (series) creative writing DMC projection (axonometric isometric) publication domestic

New Babylon (1963)
03.09.2015

New Babylon (1963)03.09.2015

– Constant

…of words, oral, printed traditions fixed the cities as a law of life for generations – conquered and vanquished before and re-erected. Buried under a hollowed time, or still an…

topographic/cartographic publication art practice theoretical & imaginary sketch urban form section public space elevation projection (axonometric isometric) DMC

Ferdinando Galli Bibiena
19.05.2017

Ferdinando Galli Bibiena19.05.2017

– John Cooper

…Ferdinando Galli Bibiena, the viewer’s line of sight ricocheted off the centre and shot in opposite directions off stage, a new prospect of social and architectural order was proposed. For…

sketch projection (axonometric isometric) presentation theatre interior DMC

Aldo Rossi at Drawing Matter
20.03.2025

Aldo Rossi at Drawing Matter20.03.2025

– Editors and Nicholas Olsberg

…1978; SCENA PER IL TEATRINO, 1978; MAN IN THE WINDOW #3, 1979 The following examples at different scales and media are from Rossi’s imaginary ensembles of urban fragments. Many derive…

plan research guide section collection guide elevation presentation theoretical & imaginary urban form sketch DMC

Permanence
18.04.2017

Permanence18.04.2017

– Elizabeth Hatz

…art, is a way of asking forgiveness for being mortal (consider the Egyptians or Etruscans), making something last long after the last sigh of its author and searching for a…

plan theoretical & imaginary industry & infrastructure record

Mario Sironi
27.03.2017

Mario Sironi27.03.2017

– David Vanderburgh

Mario Sironi (1855–1961), Architectural Study, c.1925–1938. Pencil and black ink on paper, 175 × 225 mm. DMC 2037.12. Politics as a Pretext for Making Mario Sironi compromised and traumatised in…

culture exhibition DMC sketch section projection (axonometric isometric)

26 Kingly Street Co-Op
21.06.2021

26 Kingly Street Co-Op21.06.2021

– Editors

…showing of his work at the Gallery in 1967, the same year Jeffrey Shaw and Tjebbe van Tijen exhibited ‘Breathing, Airmatter, Soundform.’ This is the first issue of their journal….

art practice

Alternative Histories: NP2F Architectes on Mario Sironi
13.03.2019

Alternative Histories: NP2F Architectes on Mario Sironi13.03.2019

…uses.  Sironi’s fair pavilion works as a receptacle for many uses, as the playground of Aldo Van Eyck or Isamu Noguchi that come alive through their content and the quality…

alternative histories (project) DMC

Superstudio’s Collage Chest: A Chance Machine
26.09.2022

Superstudio’s Collage Chest: A Chance Machine26.09.2022

– Jonah Ginsburg

…of trace taped next to images in order to extend orthogonals and find the vanishing point(s) and horizon line. The type of image manipulation can indicate different levels of interest…

DMC

MJ Long’s Doll House
31.03.2023

MJ Long’s Doll House31.03.2023

– Elena Palacios Carral

…works developed in delicate tension with the lives of the artists, the heritage of the buildings, and the contemporary needs of the organisation and wider community were endlessly fascinating to…

interior sketch projection (axonometric isometric) competition furniture & object design domestic

Where to Find a Drawing of a Swiss Gold Vault
28.02.2024

Where to Find a Drawing of a Swiss Gold Vault28.02.2024

– Ludo Groen

…the Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam. This contribution builds upon the author’s doctoral research, supervised by Laurent Stalder and Milica Topalović. A version of this text was previously presented at the…

plan archives Open Call: Storytellers, Observed

Banham in Buffalo
13.05.2024

Banham in Buffalo13.05.2024

– Brian Carter

…comprehensive view of the city, was published by MIT Press in 1981. It traced the development of the city and recorded notable buildings: landmarks designed by Louis Sullivan, Daniel Burnham,…

survey industry & infrastructure urban form education

Disney: The Architecture of Staged Realities
10.09.2021

Disney: The Architecture of Staged Realities10.09.2021

– Saskia van Stein

https://vimeo.com/601593570 ‘Project Life Cycle’ provides a brief look into the complex work behind the scenes of a Walt Disney Company production. It is a meticulous formalisation that maps the industrial-organisational…

concept & diagram DMC

Peter Wilson and Mark Dorrian in Conversation – Part 1
20.06.2024

Peter Wilson and Mark Dorrian in Conversation – Part 120.06.2024

– Mark Dorrian and Peter Wilson

…flat polder landscape with NATO Starfighters booming overhead. Then we headed for Italy. Realising that it was going to take weeks, we skipped northern Germany by train. We must have…

urban form DMC sketch theoretical & imaginary

Notes on the 2024 Architecture Summer School
06.09.2024

Notes on the 2024 Architecture Summer School06.09.2024

– Editors

…Maya Sufaria, Mayah Badoo, Megan Anozia, Nathan Freeman, Nia Laviniere, Nusayba Rahman Amin, Prayag Shetty, Renee Cornwall, Rochelle Philips, Sorya Sayeed, Suhana Karki, Sukhy Kaur, Tommy Marson, Travis Lam, Vania…

architectural drawing summer school

Giuliano Fiorenzoli: Because of Seeing Architecture (2023) – Review
08.02.2024

Giuliano Fiorenzoli: Because of Seeing Architecture (2023) – Review08.02.2024

– Stan Allen

…and published catalogues, as was the case with Rossi, Hejduk, and Scolari. ‘The Architecture of the École des Beaux-Arts’, Arthur Drexler, in collaboration with David Van Zanten, Neil Levine, and…

plan exhibition review

The Animated Wall: A Fragile Vigour
14.03.2024

The Animated Wall: A Fragile Vigour14.03.2024

– Saar Meganck

…This layering is not a univocal representation of illumination and shadow, but seems to capture the experience. What can we derive from the technique this draughtsman deploys with the repetition…

theoretical & imaginary urban form symposium april 2023 (series) elevation presentation

Judit Reigl: Invisible Cities
10.10.2023

Judit Reigl: Invisible Cities10.10.2023

– Janos Gat

…transcendent series of small-scale vanitas drawings. Having reached a stage where she could barely see her own pencil marks, Reigl found skulls to be a ready subject. She said she…

literature art practice theoretical & imaginary urban form

Patrick Gwynne: Colour by Numbers
07.08.2023

Patrick Gwynne: Colour by Numbers07.08.2023

– Neil Bingham

…the Dutch De Stijl group, including artists Mondrian and Van Doesburg and, in architecture, Rietveld. Ostwald first published on his colour system in 1917, and this is the source of…

presentation domestic

Building as Drawing: The Cowshed (2021) at Shatwell Farm
07.07.2023

Building as Drawing: The Cowshed (2021) at Shatwell Farm07.07.2023

– Helen Thomas

…Drawing (with Desley Luscombe and Niall Hobhouse); and in essays on the drawings of Marie-José Van Hee, Petra Blaisse, and Stan Allen. From the collection… Ian Hamilton Finlay on columns….

symposium april 2023 (series) agriculture

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