Johan Celsing Buildings Texts (2021) – Review
6 December 2022
Johan Celsing Buildings Texts (2021) – Review6 December 2022
…Copies of the publication can be purchased here. Nina Lundvall is an architect, co-founder of Nina James Architects and leader of a masters design unit at the University of Nottingham….
Web of Intrigue
3 April 2020
Web of Intrigue3 April 2020
…among trees. There is a flying object present in the drawing which is either a giant bird or a glider somewhat reminiscent of those designed and flown by Otto Lilienthal…
Library of Babel
29 June 2020
Library of Babel29 June 2020
…technology. In light of this, one could ponder what the wider implications of a device that can create space beyond what we know, and one could even posit that LIDAR…
A Short History of Alberto Ponis on the Sardinian Coast
15 November 2021
A Short History of Alberto Ponis on the Sardinian Coast15 November 2021
…in order to draw out their hidden truth; and building direct and deeply rooted links between his architecture and the environment. He made no distinction between the site and his…
Pan Scroll Zoom 13: Tatiana Bilbao
1 June 2021
Pan Scroll Zoom 13: Tatiana Bilbao1 June 2021
– Tatiana Bilbao and Fabrizio Gallanti
…was still to be filled in when the pandemic began. It started to capture their interpretations of the place but was still under development. In addition to engaging with the…
On Cornices, Part I
17 June 2019
On Cornices, Part I17 June 2019
…the architect wrote an unpublished text titled ‘Das Princip der Kunst in der Architektur’ (‘The Principle of Art in Architecture’), in which he spoke of the necessity of all works…
Denise Scott Brown. In Other Eyes: Portraits of an Architect (2022) – Review
24 July 2023
Denise Scott Brown. In Other Eyes: Portraits of an Architect (2022) – Review24 July 2023
…reveals something of the tragic dimension of a creative being always finding herself an outsider in worlds that tend to exclude anyone other than insiders. Being Jewish, being a foreigner…
Portals: The Visionary Architecture of Paul Goesch (2023) – Review
29 September 2023
Portals: The Visionary Architecture of Paul Goesch (2023) – Review29 September 2023
…Goesch to outsider status. His work was reproduced and discussed in psychiatric journals at the time, and, it is not unusual (at least online) to see him classified as an…
Pan Scroll Zoom 1: Fabrizio Gallanti
30 July 2020
Pan Scroll Zoom 1: Fabrizio Gallanti30 July 2020
…series of consecutive slides. There were no faces, accoutrements or postures to look at and decipher; no models or drawings deployed in space over which the eye could wander; rarely…
Owen Jones and the V&A (2023) and Style and Solitude (2023) – Review
17 October 2023
Owen Jones and the V&A (2023) and Style and Solitude (2023) – Review17 October 2023
…which all ornament was derived, a ‘grammar’ in the true sense – and has become instead just a source book of exotic patterns. Owen Jones (1809–1874), Design for Plate XLIII…
Drawing, Collaging, Rendering
9 December 2020
Drawing, Collaging, Rendering9 December 2020
…Forms rise out of the bleached expanse of the paper under the intent eyes of the architect as if, beneath his gaze, layer upon layer were converging and agreeing amongst…
Drawing Powers 3: the drawing in the object
2 November 2021
Drawing Powers 3: the drawing in the object2 November 2021
– Fernando Poeiras
…now consider drawing styles and drawing crafts. They are means of formal and material organisation that allow the broadening of perception and sensitivity and reveal new ways of understanding and…
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