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Working with Tony Fretton
04.01.2022
Working with Tony Fretton04.01.2022
In the early 1990s a number of architects, academics and artists came together in a rather fluid manner, meeting regularly in my Bloomsbury apartment. Tony Fretton was older than most…
Assemble: Collective Authorship
18.11.2017
Assemble: Collective Authorship18.11.2017
– Giles Smith and Adam Willis
…required exploration in order to achieve the material invention we were looking for within the limitations of the budget. To help develop the design of the cladding system we built…
Fontaine: Market Stalls
01.08.2016
Fontaine: Market Stalls01.08.2016
Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine (1762–1853), Détails du Marché précédent, 1820. Pencil, black pen and coloured washes on laid paper, sheet mounted with a border of gold paint, black and green washes on…
Herbert Matter
27.11.2017
Herbert Matter27.11.2017
…New York movement in abstract art, they moved to California with an intimate knowledge of new art and a close acquaintance with many of its major figures, counting Alexander Calder…
Elizabeth Hatz: Line, Light, Locus
23.05.2018
Elizabeth Hatz: Line, Light, Locus23.05.2018
…a chair is actualized when it is sat upon — can only destroy them. Thus,their durability is of a higher order than that which all things need in order to…
Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects
06.07.2018
Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects06.07.2018
– Toyo Ito
…frequently in order to simplify the process and to achieve high precision and efficiency of the construction. The catenoidal structures of the National Taichung Theatre unfold their space both vertically…
Yacht Club Path
02.08.2018
Yacht Club Path02.08.2018
…they become a visual means of communication with the client and the builder, used until the work is finished. And when the work is finished, they become a first version…
Behind the Lines 7
31.10.2018
Behind the Lines 731.10.2018
…his long nose, dipped a pen in the inkwell, and finished off his letter to Alexander Wilson Esq of Messrs. Dunlop & Wilson, Booksellers of Glasgow: ‘I have been near…
Gowan and Stirling
01.03.2019
Gowan and Stirling01.03.2019
…that he began the drawing in order to better understand why the break-up had occurred. He had concluded – but I’m not sure when – that the division was perhaps…
Harvey Wiley Corbett on Architectural Models of Cardboard
19.09.2019
Harvey Wiley Corbett on Architectural Models of Cardboard19.09.2019
…of a store in a downtown street, slender, round sticks that seemed to be of about the size I needed. I went in and asked about them and was told…
Surface-oriented
18.12.2019
Surface-oriented18.12.2019
…annotated in a somewhat obstinate tone with diligently assigned labels for each of the four identical drawers. Further ‘divisions for papers’ bring much needed order to the veritable no man’s…
BV Doshi: Drawn Closer
23.04.2020
BV Doshi: Drawn Closer23.04.2020
– Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi and Sarah Handelman
…pond, you look up at the sky and wonder, ‘where is the building?’. But isn’t life a fluid thing that always makes us wonder and admire? And can’t architecture be…
Space
27.04.2020
Space27.04.2020
…a sacred area, 30-degree or 36 degree segments of a circle radiated. The corners of all buildings completely closed the view (in the Doric order) or opened a single segment…
Paul Robbrecht: Drawn Closer
12.05.2020
Paul Robbrecht: Drawn Closer12.05.2020
…now 36 years later, this drawing doesn’t seem chaotic. There is a sense of order, and I see myself working through things. First, there is a clear direction – you…
Jean-Baptiste Lassus
01.08.2016
Jean-Baptiste Lassus01.08.2016
After a brief passage at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in the studio of Henri Labrouste from 1828 to 1830, French architect Jean-Baptiste Lassus fell under the sway of…
Michael Gold: Crossed Swords
10.11.2017
Michael Gold: Crossed Swords10.11.2017
…with crayon, gold pencil on board, 465 × 620 mm. DMC 2929.9. Michael Gold, plan, Crossed Swords, Gateway to Mecca, 1979. Print, crayon, gold leaf, bronze powder on board, 620…
Netherfield Scroll Two
28.08.2018
Netherfield Scroll Two28.08.2018
…dozen grades to 4H. The harder grades enabled more accurate and thinner lines, but really too difficult to erase, using either the type of rubber at one or the harder…
Behind the Lines 12
23.09.2019
Behind the Lines 1223.09.2019
…days to shore up the crumbling masonry and failing piers. They failed. Hills had been the last man to leave and had written in The Builder a few months later: ‘Chichester has…
The Architect and the Matador
08.02.2021
The Architect and the Matador08.02.2021
…choreographic kinship. A shared tendency toward spectacles of improbable precision, which all boils down to decisions about which lines to take and which lines not to take. I wonder how…
John Nash: Designs for Langham House, ca. 1812–1816
06.09.2021
John Nash: Designs for Langham House, ca. 1812–181606.09.2021
Extracted from Stories from Architecture: Behind the Lines at Drawing Matter by Philippa Lewis, published by MIT Press © 2021. Preorder the book here. The drawings around which Stories from Architecture are written…
PC Harry Woodley: Plans of No 131 Cornwall Street, 1902
17.09.2021
PC Harry Woodley: Plans of No 131 Cornwall Street, 190217.09.2021
Extracted from Stories from Architecture: Behind the Lines at Drawing Matter by Philippa Lewis, published by MIT Press © 2021. Preorder the book here. The drawings around which Stories from Architecture are written are all part…
Architecture at the Edge
13.01.2021
Architecture at the Edge13.01.2021
– Craig Moller and Marco Moro
…of the studio, but the ending materialised only at the end of the year when you collected all your studio projects into one folder, and that was actually when the…
Behind the Lines 1
22.09.2017
Behind the Lines 122.09.2017
– Philippa Lewis
…coat, comes into his office and looks over Savidge’s shoulder. ‘They’ll be lucky if that cheese plant survives a winter outside,’ he murmurs. Rex Savidge doesn’t answer but smooths his…
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