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One Thing Leads to Another
23.04.2020
One Thing Leads to Another23.04.2020
…of, this framework of ideas. Iteration and architectural rigour are therefore inseparable. We have all felt the anaemia of a project that has come about through under-interrogated actions: where an architectural veneer…
AnnaRita Zalaffi: The Engineer at the Heart of Alberto Ponis’ Work
19.06.2025
AnnaRita Zalaffi: The Engineer at the Heart of Alberto Ponis’ Work19.06.2025
…She was the one who decided to keep them, preserving each card carefully in a folder. The cards are a treasure trove of drawings and unbridled creativity by architects and…
Fabric Object: Diana Agrest and Mario Gandelsonas
26.08.2024
Fabric Object: Diana Agrest and Mario Gandelsonas26.08.2024
– Erin Besler, Marshall Brown, Sylvia Lavin and Michael Meredith
…sea of signs on the city. Embedded in this diagram of collective order, in which radical equivalencies between the language contract and the social contract underwrite the very possibility of…
The (Im)possible Palimpsest
10.04.2025
The (Im)possible Palimpsest10.04.2025
…image presented in this plate is constructed using the technique of the veduta per angolo: it shows monuments that have become ruins, precisely located within the broader, precise topography; the…
For AP + AR
20.01.2025
For AP + AR20.01.2025
…loud? Let me get him now. The desk in the Ponis’s studio/home. Photo by the author. I sit still and wait in his chair and watch the tricycle loop under…
Les Fantasmes de l’origine: A Reverse Archaeology of the Désert de Retz
07.04.2025
Les Fantasmes de l’origine: A Reverse Archaeology of the Désert de Retz 07.04.2025
…architectural diploma with Jean Faloux under the tutelage of Antoine Grumbach at Unité Pédagogiuqe no. 6 (L’École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Paris-La Villette) in 1976. The project is a reversed…
Retreat and Commemoration: Heath’s Court, 1878–82 – Part 1
23.09.2024
Retreat and Commemoration: Heath’s Court, 1878–82 – Part 123.09.2024
William Butterfield’s architectural practice, spanning the entire Victorian era, is the focus of Nicholas Olsberg’s new book The Master Builder: William Butterfield and his Times to be published by Lund Humphries…
Streetscapes: Bath
07.10.2024
Streetscapes: Bath07.10.2024
…OS map (click here to view an interactive version). The origins of Bath were determined by its unique thermal waters, which are forced to the surface within a wide meander…
Drawings as Cosmovisions
12.08.2024
Drawings as Cosmovisions12.08.2024
…convey. There was no architecture. Today, knowing that architecture must include more things than we normally consider, such as its relationship with the exterior, with resources, and with people, architectural…
Watchful Solitude: John Hejduk and Venice
15.07.2024
Watchful Solitude: John Hejduk and Venice15.07.2024
…la sua presenza e la sua negazione’ was organized in order to investigate scenarios of transformation for the western region of the Cannaregio district. The seminar gave rise to the…
Charles Jencks: Architect in the Jumping Universe
25.01.2022
Charles Jencks: Architect in the Jumping Universe25.01.2022
…nature. Gardens bring the macrocosm into the microcosm by the necessity of being a living place, connecting to the wider rhythms, ecological networks, or the even more abstract forces that…
The Perpetual Race of Piranesi and the Tortoise
01.03.2021
The Perpetual Race of Piranesi and the Tortoise01.03.2021
…an entity and non-entity, something we can shape and mould, but never grasp, something we can divide yet never truly measure. In order to concisely consider Piranesi’s relationship with infinity,…
Decoding Wittgenstein’s Stonborough Villa
18.01.2022
Decoding Wittgenstein’s Stonborough Villa18.01.2022
…different ideas from the beginning? Could the Stonborough Villa offer any clues? Was there some numerical order to the spatial composition? And could the placement of left or right door…
Dogma: The Room of One’s Own
13.11.2017
Dogma: The Room of One’s Own13.11.2017
– Pier Vittorio Aureli and Martino Tattara
…comprise a study of the private room as a specific architectural form. Each perspective is taken with a more or less consistent point of view in order to enhance the…
Brunswick Centre
05.12.2016
Brunswick Centre05.12.2016
…architect (and, Montpazier was commenced by Edward I in 1285!). Now, does setting aside Banham’s ex cathedraattribution to Sant’ Elia et al, really seem so improbable? Small wonder that, on…
James Malton
30.01.2017
James Malton30.01.2017
…houses and villas, with something of the appearance of farm labourers’ cottages, irregular in form and with flaking render and decaying thatch. James Malton (1761–1803), Plate 6, An Essay on…
Jørn Utzon
03.03.2017
Jørn Utzon03.03.2017
…time-consuming drawings only the working field was exposed, the rest being covered by two to four paper sheets in order to avoid smearing or dirt, and it was all covered…
Eisenman: House II
17.03.2017
Eisenman: House II17.03.2017
…a consistent sequence of architectural elements and a rigorous internal logic, for example the manipulation of a simple grid composed of pillars as in House II, in order to transform…
Conen Sigl Architekten: Drawing in retrospect
09.04.2017
Conen Sigl Architekten: Drawing in retrospect09.04.2017
…process, which is an incomplete kind of searching for a way to order and compose the constitutive elements. This kind of ‘drawing made afterwards’ is much more about bringing all…
Karl Friedrich Schinkel
07.06.2017
Karl Friedrich Schinkel07.06.2017
…This is notable for the seventeenth century, when most of Europe, under the influence of Italian architectural draughtsmanship, was monochrome. If one looks closely, however, there is a distinction to…
Dogma: Urban Villa – From Speculation to Collaboration
23.01.2025
Dogma: Urban Villa – From Speculation to Collaboration23.01.2025
– James Payne
…One example in Lausanne evoked a shock of recognition from my own experience: Henri-Robert Von der Mühll’s early modernist La Chandoline from 1933, perhaps the perfect example of an urban…
projection (axonometric isometric) housing urban form