Adolfo Natalini: The last supper
5 April 2018
Adolfo Natalini: The last supper5 April 2018
Adolfo Natalini (1941), The Last Supper, 1972. Typewritten text. DMC 2974….
Black Airground
23 December 2016
Black Airground23 December 2016
Eventstructure Research Group (1968–1979), Black Airground: Folded imprint for exhibition Pneu Show at Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, 19 Nov – 22 Dec, 1968 (folded). Print and mixed media, 188…
Venice Biennale (1985)
14 July 2020
Venice Biennale (1985)14 July 2020
The third edition of the Venice Biennale in 1985, ‘Progetto Venezia’, directed by Aldo Rossi, had two major themes: the priority given to the moment of planning and the comparison…
Alternative Histories: 31/44 Architects on William Butterfield
22 February 2019
Alternative Histories: 31/44 Architects on William Butterfield22 February 2019
31/44 Architects, William Butterfield’s east elevation of No 9 Heath’s Court, 2018. Medium-density fibreboard, valchromat, acrylic, aluminium mesh, 460 × 360 × 160 mm. William Butterfield (1814–1900), east elevation (sheet…
Alternative Histories: 2A+P/A on Aldo Rossi
8 July 2019
Alternative Histories: 2A+P/A on Aldo Rossi8 July 2019
2A+P/A, Aldo Rossi’s study for a hall of residence, 2018. Polyurethane resin, 210 × 290 × 280 mm. Aldo Rossi (1931–1997), study for a hall of residence for a student…
Landscape situations
21 January 2011
Landscape situations21 January 2011
– Niall Hobhouse and Nicholas Olsberg
Setting it out: making the landscape William Kent (1685–1748), Wimbledon Landscape Commission, 1738. Sepia ink, wash and pencil on paper, 200 × 315 mm. DMC 1379r. For Horace Walpole, William…
Architectural anxiety
28 September 2011
Architectural anxiety28 September 2011
– Niall Hobhouse and Nicholas Olsberg
This instalment explores the rich pathologies of architectural anxiety: the nagging pressure of what architects know and admire, or have seen and rejected. Or of what it is in the…
A souvenir and survey
22 June 2017
A souvenir and survey22 June 2017
François Soufflot le Romain (1750–1801), section, survey of Temple of Minerva, Rome, 1778. Black ink and grey and red washed, with black pencil detailing on paper, 550 × 445 mm….
Displaced persons
3 October 2012
Displaced persons3 October 2012
– Niall Hobhouse and Nicholas Olsberg
…the foreground while a scarlet jester dances, arms akimbo, under a distant arch of the royal archives. Framing these new sites as distanced vistas, inhabiting them with figures and atmosphere…
The Lost Art of Drawing
4 November 2015
The Lost Art of Drawing4 November 2015
Michael Graves (1934–2015), Beach House, New Jersey, 1979. Pen, ink and gouache on white trace, 682 × 682 mm. DMC 2294. The following has been excerpted from Architecture and the…
Future Scenarios, Part III
3 June 2013
Future Scenarios, Part III3 June 2013
– Niall Hobhouse and Nicholas Olsberg
Charles-Marie Dulac (1865–1898), View of Fontainbleau Forest: preliminary study for ‘La Voie Bénie’ of the ‘Le Cantique des créatures’ cycle, 1894. Pencil, India ink heightened with white chalk, 315 ×…
OMA in Scheveningen
22 July 2020
OMA in Scheveningen22 July 2020
– Willem Jan Neutelings
Scheveningen is a reef on which different architectonic and urban visions have run ashore. – Rem Koolhaas [1] Willem Jan Neutelings, typological study of Scheveningen, The Hague, 1982. Ink and…
topographic/cartographic survey Extracts: Where to Begin? concept & diagram DMC culture record urban form