Order and Uncertainty in Architectural Drawing
26 April 2021
Order and Uncertainty in Architectural Drawing26 April 2021
…subject exists before its depiction. [1] In light of this, it is perhaps better to reconsider how we look at the architectural drawing and its apparent relationship with classical realism….
Hans Poelzig: Der Golem
11 March 2021
Hans Poelzig: Der Golem11 March 2021
I gaze at the screen, engrossed in the German horror film Der Golem (originally released in 1915 and reworked for reissue in 1920), a masterpiece of performance art. This cinematographic…
Alexander Pope: ‘et sibi’
1 August 2016
Alexander Pope: ‘et sibi’1 August 2016
Alexander Pope (188–1774), Letter to Francis Bird, c.1720. Ink on paper. DMC 2022r. The great poet carefully instructs Francis Bird on the memorial tablet for his father – also Alexander…
Postcard from Nowhere (Counterswimming)
8 April 2020
Postcard from Nowhere (Counterswimming)8 April 2020
…(Hobhouse) tells me that Luce (van Rooy) told him that Rem (Koolhaas) had refused to have the Medusa Raft screenprint included in her OMA exhibition in Amsterdam because he would have wanted…
The Wessex Project: Thomas Hardy, Architect: Part II
21 December 2022
The Wessex Project: Thomas Hardy, Architect: Part II21 December 2022
…and obsession of a social media addict, ‘sending messages from morning till night’. [3] Somerset watches with disquiet, a telegram conversation between Paula and her friend Charlotte: ‘about himself, under…
Madelon Vriesendorp
4 November 2018
Madelon Vriesendorp4 November 2018
– Niall Hobhouse and Madelon Vriesdendorp
…material that came from Luce van Rooy, to do a kind of archaeology of how the drawings were made… MV: I am always protesting against all this separation of tasks…
Drawing as Preservation
14 June 2023
Drawing as Preservation14 June 2023
…never saw this Qin palace, which vanished two millennia before his birth[3]. His vivid imagery derives, rather, from popular conceptions of the legendary palace. The earliest known written account of…
DMJ – Canaletto’s Venetian Sketches and the Camera Obscura
13 December 2023
DMJ – Canaletto’s Venetian Sketches and the Camera Obscura13 December 2023
…der Heyden, through the Dutch/ Italian painter Vanvitelli, to Canaletto’s nephew and assistant Bernardo Bellotto. Two contemporaries who followed and possibly worked with Canaletto were Michele Marieschi and Francesco Guardi….
The Hidden Horizontal. Cornices in Art and Architecture: Exhibition Review
18 October 2021
The Hidden Horizontal. Cornices in Art and Architecture: Exhibition Review18 October 2021
…of the urban ramifications of the cornice, considered under the theme ‘The Cornice in the Urban Perspective.’ The show juxtaposes sixteenth century street views of Northern printmakers Joannes van Doetecum…
Alison and Peter Smithson’s Collages as Reinventing Established Reality
24 February 2023
Alison and Peter Smithson’s Collages as Reinventing Established Reality24 February 2023
…Gardens housing estate shows how much attention they paid to circulation. According to Dirk van den Heuvel, this project could be ‘characterised as a rather early urban renewal project’. [2]…
Projected Sections
15 January 2017
Projected Sections15 January 2017
– Laurent Stalder
…vanishing point causes the individual apartment in the drawing to appear as a self-contained world. Attention is focused towards the centre of the featured apartment, whereas surrounding apartments (above, below…
plan projection (axonometric isometric) presentation domestic interior DMC