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Eric Parry: India, 1975
07.02.2019
Eric Parry: India, 197507.02.2019
…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…
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
…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…
Cedric Price: Bathat
08.08.2016
Cedric Price: Bathat08.08.2016
…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…
Behind the Lines 2
19.12.2017
Behind the Lines 219.12.2017
…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 –…
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…
Ferdinando Galli Bibiena
19.05.2017
Ferdinando Galli Bibiena19.05.2017
…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…
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…
Permanence
18.04.2017
Permanence18.04.2017
…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…
Mario Sironi
27.03.2017
Mario Sironi27.03.2017
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…
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….
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…
Superstudio’s Collage Chest: A Chance Machine
26.09.2022
Superstudio’s Collage Chest: A Chance Machine26.09.2022
…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…
MJ Long’s Doll House
31.03.2023
MJ Long’s Doll House31.03.2023
…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…
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
…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…
Banham in Buffalo
13.05.2024
Banham in Buffalo13.05.2024
…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,…
Disney: The Architecture of Staged Realities
10.09.2021
Disney: The Architecture of Staged Realities10.09.2021
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…
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…
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…
Giuliano Fiorenzoli: Because of Seeing Architecture (2023) – Review
08.02.2024
Giuliano Fiorenzoli: Because of Seeing Architecture (2023) – Review08.02.2024
…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…
The Animated Wall: A Fragile Vigour
14.03.2024
The Animated Wall: A Fragile Vigour14.03.2024
…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…
Judit Reigl: Invisible Cities
10.10.2023
Judit Reigl: Invisible Cities10.10.2023
…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…
Patrick Gwynne: Colour by Numbers
07.08.2023
Patrick Gwynne: Colour by Numbers07.08.2023
…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…
Building as Drawing: The Cowshed (2021) at Shatwell Farm
07.07.2023
Building as Drawing: The Cowshed (2021) at Shatwell Farm07.07.2023
…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….
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…
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