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Order and Uncertainty in Architectural Drawing

Order and Uncertainty in Architectural Drawing

Luke Tipene

…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

Hans Poelzig: Der Golem

Robert Wightman

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’

Alexander Pope: ‘et sibi’

Niall Hobhouse

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)

Postcard from Nowhere (Counterswimming)

Teresa Stoppani

…(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

The Wessex Project: Thomas Hardy, Architect: Part II

Kester Rattenbury

…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

Madelon Vriesendorp

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…

Projected Sections

Projected Sections

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…

Drawing as Preservation

Drawing as Preservation

Lisa Huang

…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

DMJ – Canaletto’s Venetian Sketches and the Camera Obscura

Philip Steadman

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….

Jérôme-Charles Bellicard: Metamorphoses

Jérôme-Charles Bellicard: Metamorphoses

Janine Barrier

…of the Chinea, were given preference, as were those of Bellicard in 1750, when the new Directeur des Bâtiments, Abel-François Poisson de Vandières, the brother of the marquise de Pompadour,…

The Hidden Horizontal. Cornices in Art and Architecture: Exhibition Review

The Hidden Horizontal. Cornices in Art and Architecture: Exhibition Review

Cammy Brothers

…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

Alison and Peter Smithson’s Collages as Reinventing Established Reality

Marianna Charitonidou

…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]…