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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…
Tim Robinson: Deep Mapping
26.02.2024
Tim Robinson: Deep Mapping26.02.2024
…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…
Architects at Play (2023) – Review
15.05.2023
Architects at Play (2023) – Review15.05.2023
…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,…
Architectural Manuals and Pacific Speculations
23.05.2023
Architectural Manuals and Pacific Speculations23.05.2023
…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…
Sigurd Lewerentz: Punctum. Seeing the Detail
14.02.2022
Sigurd Lewerentz: Punctum. Seeing the Detail14.02.2022
…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…
The City of Design
09.01.2023
The City of Design09.01.2023
…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…
Growth or Composition? Colin Rowe to Louis Kahn
10.02.2022
Growth or Composition? Colin Rowe to Louis Kahn10.02.2022
…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…
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
…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…
Reflections on my Internship
27.04.2022
Reflections on my Internship27.04.2022
…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
…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…
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 ×…
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…
Geography of Hope: Adolfo Natalini and Superstudio
18.01.2023
Geography of Hope: Adolfo Natalini and Superstudio18.01.2023
…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…
Useless Terrain: The Ballynagrenia and Ballinderry Bog
07.12.2022
Useless Terrain: The Ballynagrenia and Ballinderry Bog07.12.2022
…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…
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
…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…
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…
Connor Street: Made by Many Hands
12.02.2024
Connor Street: Made by Many Hands12.02.2024
…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…
The Polyhedrists (2022) – Review
08.12.2023
The Polyhedrists (2022) – Review08.12.2023
…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…
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
…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…
Architectural Covers: A Site of Design
07.02.2024
Architectural Covers: A Site of Design07.02.2024
…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…
Houses for Printing: A Microcosm of the World
21.02.2024
Houses for Printing: A Microcosm of the World21.02.2024
…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…
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…