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Architectural Models and the Oriental Ideal of the Alhambra
20.05.2024
Architectural Models and the Oriental Ideal of the Alhambra20.05.2024
…wonder, we could just admire the perseverance and patience of its author.’[4] Encouraged by the admiration that his models received, Contreras set up a private workshop dedicated to their production….
Painting in Stone (2020) – Review
01.03.2022
Painting in Stone (2020) – Review01.03.2022
…hint toward Barry’s ambition. In order to scratch away inherited prejudices and metaphors, it seems, we cannot claim a temporal detachment from our subject. Did you ever pick up a…
Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine on the Moriyama House
28.02.2023
Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine on the Moriyama House28.02.2023
– What is a House For and Bêka & Lemoine
…street. The house is minimal and left without any symbol of luxury, in order not to distract you from its main purpose. In terms of furniture and facilities, it offers…
Connor Street: Made by Many Hands
04.12.2023
Connor Street: Made by Many Hands04.12.2023
…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…
Capilla Pajaritos
24.08.2023
Capilla Pajaritos24.08.2023
…act of inhabiting. For this reason it is necessary to reconsider the act of the rituals of sun and distance that occur in the passions of modesty and annoyance. Reconsider…
Robert Bray: Design for a Playboy Duplex Penthouse, 1970
17.01.2023
Robert Bray: Design for a Playboy Duplex Penthouse, 197017.01.2023
…Northampton’, he thinks, and makes a mental note to jettison the magazine before he gets home. Rosemary would scream blue murder if she saw it – months and months of…
Beverly Buchanan: Here I am; I’m Still Here
15.12.2022
Beverly Buchanan: Here I am; I’m Still Here15.12.2022
…the politics of race, gender, identity, and memory. Buchanan was born in North Carolina in 1940, then studied in New York and worked in the health sector. In 1971 she…
Materia 3: Red Oxide
30.09.2022
Materia 3: Red Oxide30.09.2022
…products. The first and second texts in the series, on render and corrugated iron, can be read here. Architects are subsumed within an eternal ontology of origin; as our sovereign practice of…
W. R. Lethaby: Architecture, Mysticism and Myth
10.08.2022
W. R. Lethaby: Architecture, Mysticism and Myth10.08.2022
…he had the opportunity to reconsider the subject, and the text was revised, with a shift away from the earlier emphasis on anthropology and towards psychology, republished in 1928 under…
Benjamin Wistar Morris and a new Metropolitan Opera House
10.06.2022
Benjamin Wistar Morris and a new Metropolitan Opera House10.06.2022
…(like Washington Heights or the Carnegie Hill neighbourhoods), unexpected rock outcroppings, and quick changes in elevation (Columbia University’s main campus upper terrace is 40 feet above its border 4 blocks…
Design Starts: Loughborough School of Architecture at Shatwell Farm
03.05.2022
Design Starts: Loughborough School of Architecture at Shatwell Farm03.05.2022
…the archive and the place. Peter Wilson, Eurolandschaft – A Derive, 1998. Mixed media, 182 × 242 mm. DMC 2945.21. Jemima Dabell’s response to Peter Wilson’s Eurolandschaft – A Derive….
Casa Ugalde Sketch
19.06.2023
Casa Ugalde Sketch19.06.2023
– Laura Bonell and Daniel López-Dòriga
…felt the ending result lacked order. It was not serious enough[1]. He sometimes said he would like to have the opportunity to start it all over again. This might be…
Peter Wilson and Mark Dorrian in Conversation – Part 2
22.07.2024
Peter Wilson and Mark Dorrian in Conversation – Part 222.07.2024
– Mark Dorrian and Peter Wilson
…the project then? Did you run it as a student project? PW: No … it was the absent centre, Hans Sedlmayr’s Verlust der Mitte. Eisenman was talking about the loss of…
The Design Legacy of Tamar de Shalit and Arthur Goldreich
10.07.2025
The Design Legacy of Tamar de Shalit and Arthur Goldreich10.07.2025
…weSizwe, moved to Liliesleaf Farm and secretly concealed Nelson Mandela under the guise of a farmhand, under the alias ‘David Motsamayi’. Penthouse for Sir Charles Clore (1963–64) Tamar de-Shalit (1932–2009),…
In the Archive: New and Found 4
26.07.2024
In the Archive: New and Found 426.07.2024
– Editors
…which distort scale in order to flatten the spherical earth. A distortion that, no doubt incidentally, enlarged the apparent area of Europe and the USA at the expense of equatorial…
Fresh and Surprised
02.07.2020
Fresh and Surprised02.07.2020
…email from Sander Meijer, manager of Flevopark, to Julian Lewis, 2012; photograph taken outside one of the park entrances. The so-called ‘hairy drawing’ presented here is one of a series…
One Small Sketch for Mankind
13.01.2020
One Small Sketch for Mankind13.01.2020
…DMC 2642.2. Loewy’s brief was to look at Skylab’s ‘floor plan’ and to consider colour and lighting. Nearly eighty years old at the time, the better to understand the challenges,…
Origins in Translation
20.01.2020
Origins in Translation20.01.2020
…so is the way in which it contrasts with that pristine white piece of a classical building fragment (in the two photos above). It is impossible not to wonder what…
‘I chose a distant meadow’: The House that Neutra Built
20.03.2020
‘I chose a distant meadow’: The House that Neutra Built20.03.2020
…resulted in another curiosity not evident on the plan. Von Sternberg insisted that the bathrooms have no locks. This in order to deter suicides by neurotic guests. As the patron…
Postmodern Australia: Robert Pearce’s Drawings for Edmond and Corrigan
01.02.2022
Postmodern Australia: Robert Pearce’s Drawings for Edmond and Corrigan01.02.2022
…derived from suburbia and the theatre, defines the practice’s formal and representational bodies of work. Robert Pearce (1949–1989), Barber House, 1979. Ink on paper, 600 x 705 mm. RMIT Design…
Behind the Walls
23.03.2020
Behind the Walls23.03.2020
…however, is not his treading of a line between being a sort of graphic builder and a paper architect, but rather what his drawings might suggest about wider issues related…
Houses of Work and Play
30.03.2020
Houses of Work and Play30.03.2020
…a DIN Standard, Fibonacci-sequence-derived-Golden-Section ratio on A-sized paper. In other words, the initial drawing establishes the project as an exercise; establishing architecture as a mode of creativity founded on proportion…
Where Words Fail
06.04.2020
Where Words Fail06.04.2020
– Cyril Babeev and Matt Page
…five and three quarter arshin. After exhausting the interior, Likholet takes a moment to consider the exterior of the house, stating that the facade should be constructed in brick with stucco…
The Captive Globe
28.03.2024
The Captive Globe28.03.2024
– Reinier de Graaf
…where science, art, poetry and forms of madness compete under ideal conditions to invent, destroy and restore the world of phenomenal Reality. Each science or mania has its own plot.’[4]…
projection (axonometric isometric) publication concept & diagram theoretical & imaginary urban form