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John Hejduk’s Bye House: An Object in the Landscape
29.06.2023

John Hejduk’s Bye House: An Object in the Landscape29.06.2023

– Stan Allen and Marina Correia

…will first look under the bridge, to the framed and cropped horizon beyond, which is in turn mirrored by the insistent horizontality of the bridge, before swerving right to find…

sketch plan section elevation presentation

Tim Robinson: Deep Mapping
26.02.2024

Tim Robinson: Deep Mapping26.02.2024

– Tom Cookson

…the Abstract Expressionists. Maps have no consistent vanishing point, they are ‘not a Renaissance image which can be easily understood like a photograph, the eye is forced to roam, attention…

DMC topographic/cartographic landscape

Architects at Play (2023) – Review
15.05.2023

Architects at Play (2023) – Review15.05.2023

– Mathilde de Laage

…exhibition, the display is presented as a game situated under the reinforced concrete vaults of the Pavillon Sicli. The building was designed by Constantin Hilberer and Heinz Isler in 1968,…

Nuno Melo Sousa: in cahiers
25.04.2023

Nuno Melo Sousa: in cahiers25.04.2023

– Nuno Melo Sousa

…the caravan to take off. Because ideas cross minds like contrails. They do share turbulence and need: to describe, prescribe, relate, to quickly freeze: a given sight or vision. As…

Architectural Manuals and Pacific Speculations
23.05.2023

Architectural Manuals and Pacific Speculations23.05.2023

– Sarah Treadwell

…two different kinds of lines variously applied, may be said to constitute the principal parts of the order.’ [2] The lines that construct the fine drawings and text are certain…

plan topographic/cartographic

Sigurd Lewerentz: Punctum. Seeing the Detail
14.02.2022

Sigurd Lewerentz: Punctum. Seeing the Detail14.02.2022

– Mikael Bergquist

…would be too dominant and that the unprotected edges of the glass could be exposed to vandalism. He was worried also that the windows are fixed and not able to be opened.  4. Plan of…

detail

The City of Design
09.01.2023

The City of Design09.01.2023

– Emilio Ambasz

…some of the members of the group dwelling in the streets have climbed up to the buildings’ rooftops, hoping that – from this vantage point – they could be able…

theoretical & imaginary landscape

Growth or Composition? Colin Rowe to Louis Kahn
10.02.2022

Growth or Composition? Colin Rowe to Louis Kahn10.02.2022

– Michael Merrill

…by Stan Allen. An auspicious meeting: At the end of 1955, a thirty-five-year-old academic named Colin Rowe visited the office of the twenty-year-older Louis Kahn: on Kahn’s drawing boards, a…

sketch plan concept & diagram correspondence letters ephemera

In the Archive: Laugier, Eisen, Boulogne, Petitot, Percier, Dumont and Hadid
22.03.2022

In the Archive: Laugier, Eisen, Boulogne, Petitot, Percier, Dumont and Hadid22.03.2022

– Christiane Matt

…Peter’s in Rome. The association between trees and columns is not an unfamiliar one: already in the fifteenth century, the Florentine sculptor-architect Filarete postulated that columns derived from the upright…

DMC in the archive (project)

Reflections on my Internship
27.04.2022

Reflections on my Internship27.04.2022

– Jonah Ginsburg

…is elevated about five feet off the floor and can only be accessed by pulling out an old desk on wheels from under the bed and then pulling out the…

The Wessex Project: Thomas Hardy, Architect: Part I
12.12.2022

The Wessex Project: Thomas Hardy, Architect: Part I12.12.2022

– Kester Rattenbury

…the vanishing points or ‘setting out’ lines used to construct them, although several drawings use grids to help with the simple ‘scaling-up’ of flat images. Many of the drawings are…

landscape literature

Nancy Goldring: Drawings and Foto-Projections
17.03.2023

Nancy Goldring: Drawings and Foto-Projections17.03.2023

– Leann Davis Alspaugh and Nancy Goldring

…a Western perspective system that privileges a single vantage point, is allowed to wander freely into the natural landscape. Nancy Goldring, Place Without Description, 2007. Collage: mylar, graphite, 610 ×…

art practice

fala: photography
13.12.2022

fala: photography13.12.2022

– fala

…more truthful to our intentions than the building can be. They can be exaggerated to our advantage. They can be choreographed and fictionalised. The space then quickly vanishes. The occupant…

interior

Roger Katan and Forum
05.10.2022

Roger Katan and Forum05.10.2022

– Sarah Handelman

Letters and papers documenting the editorial planning of Forum 23, 1972. Photo: Sarah Handelman. I consider it a good rule for letter-writing to leave unmentioned what the recipient already knows,…

publication graphic design social engagement

Geography of Hope: Adolfo Natalini and Superstudio
18.01.2023

Geography of Hope: Adolfo Natalini and Superstudio18.01.2023

– Nicholas Olsberg

…poetic, imaginative and philosophical culture for the mind to dwell in, especially in the contemplation of our place in the wider universe, and of the purpose and character of our…

landscape land DMC

Useless Terrain: The Ballynagrenia and Ballinderry Bog
07.12.2022

Useless Terrain: The Ballynagrenia and Ballinderry Bog07.12.2022

– Joseph Heffernan

…tall grasses. A route vanishes into a singular hazel wall with a viewing window stretching the length of the wall, framing the bog, watching, waiting. Ghostly bog bodies, buried and…

exhibition landscape education land

Forecast and Fantasy: Architecture without Borders 1960s to 1980s – Review
30.01.2023

Forecast and Fantasy: Architecture without Borders 1960s to 1980s – Review30.01.2023

– Markus Lähteenmäki

…On the contrary, the broader geographies that this exhibition maps show a more complex network of resonance, inspiration, and innovation. It shows how sources of ideas, such as new scientific…

theoretical & imaginary

Drawing Construction: A Drawing Matter Workshop
29.03.2023

Drawing Construction: A Drawing Matter Workshop29.03.2023

– Niall Hobhouse, Manuel Montenegro and Amy Teh

This audio recording documents a workshop on construction drawings by architects architects and designers. It was delivered by Manuel Montenegro and Niall Hobhouse to Masters students from the School of…

construction drawing plan section elevation detail DMC furniture & object design publication

In the Archive: New and Found
01.12.2021

In the Archive: New and Found01.12.2021

– Editors

…Also, a December 1925 issue of Vanity Fair, here opened on a double-page spread about Hugh Ferriss and the ‘Zoning Law’ in New York. The magazine arrived with a group…

DMC in the archive (project)

Connor Street: Made by Many Hands
12.02.2024

Connor Street: Made by Many Hands12.02.2024

– Kieran Hawkins

…the everyday realities of the project and, in the green text, the broader environmental issues incumbent on architects to address. The texts have been developed by Kieran from a talk first given during the Poetic Pragmatism symposium, organised…

connor street: made by many hands (series) domestic

The Polyhedrists (2022) – Review
08.12.2023

The Polyhedrists (2022) – Review08.12.2023

– Rosie Ellison-Balaam

…derived by slicing up or embellishing regular polygons, in their case all the edges are congruent—Andrews cites the rhombicuboctahedron in Ugo da Carpi’s chiaroscuro woodcut print of Archimedes (c.1518–1520) as…

polyhedra publication

The Religious Architecture of Alvar, Aino and Elissa Aalto (2023) — Review
26.01.2024

The Religious Architecture of Alvar, Aino and Elissa Aalto (2023) — Review26.01.2024

– C.M. Howell

…influenced his ecclesial projects [3]. Within these discourses were several shared concerns between Aalto and his religious clients that helped to ally against tendencies developed in the wider context of…

religion review

Architectural Covers: A Site of Design
07.02.2024

Architectural Covers: A Site of Design07.02.2024

– Sarah Hearne

…projects that will never materialize. That keeps them off the streets, and busy!’[2] As an alternative to this model, Katan’s approach reflected a broader repositioning of urban renewal and participatory planning…

presentation urban form DMC

Houses for Printing: A Microcosm of the World
21.02.2024

Houses for Printing: A Microcosm of the World21.02.2024

– Sarah Hearne

…Arvind Taves. See Karen Michels, Der Sinn Der Unordnung: Arbeitsformen Im Atelier Le Corbusier (Braunschweig: Vieweg & Sohn, 1989), 42.  ‘The intermediate master or reproducible copy encourages improvisation. The designer can make…

section DMC

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