Drawing, Collaging, Rendering
9 December 2020
Drawing, Collaging, Rendering9 December 2020
β Cameron Lintott
Otto Wagner (1841–1918), Portal for the Moderne Galerie, Die Kunst XX Jahundt sketch for entrance, 1899. Pencil, 405 × 795 mm. DMC 2624v. When the ‘hard-line drawing’ has become so…
The Routledge Companion to Architectural Drawings and Models (2021) – Review
24 November 2022
The Routledge Companion to Architectural Drawings and Models (2021) – Review24 November 2022
β Desley Luscombe
…archives present us with ‘raw’ materials they also ‘construct’ ways for comprehending the work, whereby, “the archival object is ‘inherited’ from the collector to the researcher, through the filter of…
Louis Kahn: The Importance of a Drawing (2021) β Review
10 February 2022
Louis Kahn: The Importance of a Drawing (2021) β Review10 February 2022
β Stan Allen
Louis Kahn (1901–1974), design for tapestries, First Unitarian Church, Rochester, New York, 1959–62. AAUP, Louis I. Kahn Collection. I’ll confess, I ordered a copy of this book reluctantly. I had…
The Anatomy of the Architectural Book: Magical Moves
6 June 2022
The Anatomy of the Architectural Book: Magical Moves6 June 2022
β AndrΓ© Tavares
…Canadian Centre for Architecture, 1989), p.270. Fontana, Della trasportatione dell’obelisco vaticano (1590), 13v.; (2002), p.24. Ingrid D. Rowland, ‘Della trasportatione dell’obelisco vaticano’, in Fontana, (2002), p.1–10. Even after Fontana, aged forty-two, secured…
The Language of Architecture: Peter MΓ€rkliβs system of proportion
15 June 2021
The Language of Architecture: Peter MΓ€rkliβs system of proportion15 June 2021
β Stacey Lewis
…of five ratios; 12:6 (2:1), 9:6 (3:2), 8:6 (4:3), 144:36 (4:1) and 108:36 (3:1), and three corresponding proportions; arithmetic, geometric and harmonic. The first of these proportions is the arithmetic…
Houses for Printing: A Microcosm of the World
21 February 2024
Houses for Printing: A Microcosm of the World21 February 2024
β Sarah Hearne
…Arvind Taves. See Karen Michels, Der Sinn Der Unordnung: Arbeitsformen Im Atelier Le Corbusier (Braunschweig: Vieweg & Sohn, 1989), 42. ‘The intermediate master or reproducible copy encourages improvisation. The designer can make…
All back to front: D’Aviler’s Cours D’Architecture
9 November 2020
All back to front: D’Aviler’s Cours D’Architecture9 November 2020
β Richard Emerson
Jean Langlois, frontispiece, Augustin-Charles D’Aviler’s Cours d’Architecture, 1691. Engraving, 160 × 115 mm. DMC 1115.1. Louis de Boulogne, preparatory drawing, Jean Langlois’s frontispiece to D’Aviler’s Cours d’Architecture, 1689–1691. Pencil, 155…
Artists at Work
14 September 2018
Artists at Work14 September 2018
…one has met, just hates them! Henri-Joseph Harpignies (1819–1916), Two draughtsmen in a landscape. Pen and black ink and grey wash on paper, 145 × 100 mm. © Katrin Bellinger…
Superstudio & Piranesi: Zeno is Immortal
24 May 2021
Superstudio & Piranesi: Zeno is Immortal24 May 2021
…Zarathustra, (Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011) p.55. Superstudio, Works 1966-1978, (Macerata: Quodlibet, 2017) p.536. Translated from Italian. Superstudio, Works 1966-1978, (Macerata: Quodlibet, 2017) p.562. Translated from Italian….
DMJ – Pencils, Computers, Cameras
19 January 2024
DMJ – Pencils, Computers, Cameras19 January 2024
β Ahmed Belkhodja
…Design, no. 247 (April 1985), ed. Kobun Ito. (Tokyo: Kajima Institute, 1985). Work/image created by Itsuko Hasegawa; reproduced courtesy of the architect. Starting from the enigma of a few ‘negatives’…
Materia 2: Corrugated Iron
14 July 2022
Materia 2: Corrugated Iron14 July 2022
β Gordon Shrigley
…shift from a useful to a monstrous entity. W. H. Saunders & Son, perspective of ‘Quontas’ building (constructed with asbestos panels), 1948. Print, 289 × 429 mm. DMC 3256.2.5. The…
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