Drawing, Movement and Medium: Michael Webb in conversation with Mark Dorrian, Episode 2
21 January 2019
Drawing, Movement and Medium: Michael Webb in conversation with Mark Dorrian, Episode 221 January 2019
– Mark Dorrian and Michael Webb
Archigram (1961–74), Archigram broadsheet, c. 1961. Print. © Archigram. Mark Dorrian: I’ve loaded some images – Michael, by the way, doesn’t know what’s coming up. After showing this, the drawing…
Johan Celsing Buildings Texts (2021) – Review
6 December 2022
Johan Celsing Buildings Texts (2021) – Review6 December 2022
…with public entrance, view from northwest, New Crematorium. © Ioana Marinescu. Johan Celsing Arkitektkontor, (p. 309), plan, as built, New Crematorium. © Johan Celsing. The slow transformation of the design…
Architecture and Geology
7 February 2017
Architecture and Geology7 February 2017
Map of North-West Europe, showing urbanisation overlaid on clay, gravel, sand and coal deposits. Clay: brown; gravel: red-brown; sand: beige; coal: dark grey. Witherford Watson Mann Architects/Labo S, University of…
Mies van der Rohe and the Universal Space Project
30 August 2022
Mies van der Rohe and the Universal Space Project30 August 2022
…der Rohe, Ludwig (1886–1969), Museum for a Small City project, 1941–1943. Pencil, ink, plastic film, airbrush on silver-gelatin print, 203 × 254 mm. New York, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)….
Vitruvius: Follow the Footprints
7 December 2020
Vitruvius: Follow the Footprints7 December 2020
…to the Sangallo circle drawing. See William Ashworth, Jr., ‘Scientist of the Day – David Gregory’ Linda Hall Library (June 3, 2019) in https://www.lindahall.org/david-gregory/ Accessed 11/28/2020. Daniel Defoe’s famous passage…
Christoph Schlingensiefs Operndorf Afrika (2020): Review
27 September 2021
Christoph Schlingensiefs Operndorf Afrika (2020): Review27 September 2021
…Burkina Faso, 2019. © Sandra Schaede. Francis Kéré, Infirmary, 2019. © Sandra Schaede. Francis Kéré, School building, 2019. © Sandra Schaede. Operndorf Afrika, Burkina Faso, December 2015. © Lennart Laberenz….
‘A free composition of bodies’: the Härlanda Church
30 May 2023
‘A free composition of bodies’: the Härlanda Church30 May 2023
…period. —/The development phase — a big/ experience not only settled/ —psychol/og/ical, negotiation wise/ but as an artistic research—/ In secular assignments/ the functional/ technical and economic factors/ are decisive—…
How Big is Big – Does Scale Matter? A Reflection on Scale in Architecture and Drawing
21 October 2022
How Big is Big – Does Scale Matter? A Reflection on Scale in Architecture and Drawing21 October 2022
– Federica Goffi and Devon Moar
…joint/part: super-imposed/collaged drawings to display a bee. Scale of the Bee: drawings demonstrating the layers/systems that make up a bee (wings, hair, external exoskeleton, respiratory system, circulatory system, digestive system, internal exoskeleton)….
The Captive Globe
28 March 2024
The Captive Globe28 March 2024
…of its revenge—a way to reclaim the globe from captivity. Notes Rem Koolhaas, Delirious New York (New York: The Monacelli Press, 1994). Ibid, 294. Ibid, 294. Ibid, 294. * Editors’…
Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine on the Moriyama House
28 February 2023
Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine on the Moriyama House28 February 2023
– What is a House For and Bêka & Lemoine
…of openness, which in our culture would be associated with innocence—too much is lost through our own social conditioning. But we should be careful not to forget too much. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Egr2BAdXZA4…
One Thing Leads to Another
23 April 2020
One Thing Leads to Another23 April 2020
…square-circle-triangle, the mysteries of central-peripheral-frontal-oblique-concavity-convexity, of right angle, of perpendicular, of perspective, the comprehension of sphere-cylinder-pyramid, the questions of structure-construction-organization, the question of scale, of position, the interest in post-lintel,…
Materia 5: Timber
18 April 2023
Materia 5: Timber18 April 2023
– Gordon Shrigley
…record, to celebrate the inauguration of the Museum Village. Gerhard Rohling, ‘Auschnitt aus dem Vordergiebel “Quatmannshofes”’, reproduced from Heinrich Ottenjann, Das Museumsdorf in Cloppenburg (Gerhard Stalling Verlag, Oldenburg, 1944), p….
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