Carlos Diniz and the World Trade Center
1 February 2021
Carlos Diniz and the World Trade Center1 February 2021
…drawings that articulate design ideas, Diniz’s illustrations were commissioned to communicate and sell the project to the clients and broader public. His drawings convey not only the design of the…
Keshi Ghat
13 May 2021
Keshi Ghat13 May 2021
Seeing is a reaching out, a kind of metaphorical touching that involves one’s whole being and is reciprocal. Amita Singh Author unknown, Plan and elevation, Keshi Ghat, Vrindavan, Uttar Pradesh,…
Insignificance 3: Mourning Work
9 June 2021
Insignificance 3: Mourning Work9 June 2021
…Ebhardt, took over his father’s office. Professor Robert Jan van Pelt: I had a look at the drawings, and they appear typical for the tens of thousands of barracks that…
Seeing, and Disbelieving
2 March 2020
Seeing, and Disbelieving2 March 2020
…we are now looking at it, presents many impediments. Consider first that the drawing gathers much of its meaning from participation in some sequential process of thought or presentation; even…
Jessie Brennan
4 January 2017
Jessie Brennan4 January 2017
…an act of imagination. Like stills from the filmed footage of a detonation, in each frame a building slumps further down the viewfinder: present, going, going… gone. Or so it…
Disinformation: Closed Circuit
30 June 2021
Disinformation: Closed Circuit30 June 2021
…August 2021. Find full details, here. Notes Ivan Chtcheglov, ‘Formulary for a New Urbanism’, Internationale Situationniste 1, October 1953. Friedrich von Schelling, Philosophie der Kunst, 1802. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cylinder Rudolf Arnheim, Radio,…
The Anatomy of the Architectural Book: Magical Moves
6 June 2022
The Anatomy of the Architectural Book: Magical Moves6 June 2022
…thousand-year-old base: ‘It seemed as if the earth shook, and the scaffold let out a great noise as all its timbers tightened under the weight.’ [5] The book aimed to convey…
The Values of Profiles (1951)
8 January 2021
The Values of Profiles (1951)8 January 2021
…very well have taken as the noblest ancestry for their works at least certain pieces of cornice which carry famous signatures. Neither should one object to a figurative derivation of…
Staging Brancusi
15 June 2020
Staging Brancusi15 June 2020
– Sarah Handelman and Asli Çiçek
…about the kinds of stages that scenography asks you as an architect to consider. In the context of this show, there is the stage of Brancusi’s re-enacted atelier that for…
Sir John Soane’s Museum: Bound Legacy
9 February 2021
Sir John Soane’s Museum: Bound Legacy9 February 2021
…plan, the reader will be able to obtain an accurate idea of the forms and arrangement of the ground floor…’ Having volunteered at Sir John Soane’s Museum for a number…
Hans Poelzig: Decorating the Empty Centre
1 June 2021
Hans Poelzig: Decorating the Empty Centre1 June 2021
…be satisfying fodder for the architect; he has an inner urge to conceive and erect buildings in which real people come and go, creations that will last, that belong not…
This Blue Love: Aldo Rossi in Samos in late Summer 1989
2 June 2021
This Blue Love: Aldo Rossi in Samos in late Summer 19892 June 2021
– Vincenzo Moschetti
…and the blue of the water. It is in this vibration that stupor is translated, which appears as the beginning of something but which in fact derives from his interest…
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