Behind the Lines 11
12 August 2019
Behind the Lines 1112 August 2019
Robert Schnebbelie, View of the Picadilly street entrance, with figures, Burlington Arcade, London, 1827. Black ink and coloured washes on paper, 215 × 275 mm. DMC 1643. Robert Schnebbelie peered…
Robert Adam: The Long Gallery at Syon
13 May 2022
Robert Adam: The Long Gallery at Syon13 May 2022
– Stephen Astley, Adriano Aymonino, Markus Lähteenmäki and Frances Sands
On 18 December 2015, Frances Sands and Stephen Astley took out two leather-bound volumes from the Robert Adam Archive and laid them on the long table in the first-floor library…
Robert Venturi: The difficult whole
22 January 2016
Robert Venturi: The difficult whole22 January 2016
Robert Venturi (1925–2018), Facade Study for Gordon Wu Hall, Butler College, Princeton, 1981. Marker pen ink on trace, 304 × 645 mm. DMC 2041. Lying on the border between an…
Syon House and the Afterlife of Architectural Drawing
22 April 2022
Syon House and the Afterlife of Architectural Drawing22 April 2022
His writing is not about something; it is that something itself. [1] Fig.01; Robert Adam, Section of the Great Hall at Syon House, 1761. © John Soane’s Museum. I knew…
Louis Kahn: The Importance of a Drawing (2021) – Review
10 February 2022
Louis Kahn: The Importance of a Drawing (2021) – Review10 February 2022
…Merrill’s previous collaborations with Lars Müller, Louis Kahn: Drawing to Find Out. Any doubts I might have had vanished when I unpacked the bulky package that arrived a few days…
The Birds’ Morning Hymn (1929)
10 July 2020
The Birds’ Morning Hymn (1929)10 July 2020
…Sir Robert Lorimer (London: Country Life: 1931), 3–4. Robert Lorimer (1864–1929), panel design with honeysuckle, birds, fruit and flowers; possibly for a pelmet, c.1891. Pencil and coloured crayons on wove…
The Iconography of Desolation
17 February 2020
The Iconography of Desolation17 February 2020
Robert Smithson (1938–1973), My House is a Decayed House, 1962. Photo-collage, pen, ink, gouache and watercolour on paper, 610 × 455 mm. DMC 2975. ‘We now discover an iconoscope that…
Krier/Culot: Architecture, language and process (1977)
7 September 2022
Krier/Culot: Architecture, language and process (1977)7 September 2022
The essay by Robert Maxwell linked below was sent to Drawing Matter by Celia Scott earlier this year. It was first published in Architectural Design, March 1977, as part of…
Sir Edwin Lutyens, by his Son
4 July 2022
Sir Edwin Lutyens, by his Son4 July 2022
Sketch of the architect Edwin Lutyens bearing the inscription ‘Lutyens sweats port’, 1921, by an unidentified English draughtsman. RIBA Collections. We have republished below an extract from Robert Lutyens’ short…
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
…beautifully curated book, the sensitive work of its editor Frida Grahn who, in her own research trying to assess the reception and impact of Robert Venturi and Scott Brown on…
The Anatomy of the Architectural Book: Magical Moves
6 June 2022
The Anatomy of the Architectural Book: Magical Moves6 June 2022
…Müller Publishers © 2015. Notes Paolo Portoghesi, ‘Domenico Fontana architetto e urbanista’, in Domenico Fontana: Della trasportatione dell’obelisco vaticano 1590, ed. Adriano Carugo (Milan: Polifilo, 1978), xi–xviii. Brian A. Curran, Anthony…
Robert Maxwell: The Letter, the Lost Sketchbook and the Lecture
23 September 2022
Robert Maxwell: The Letter, the Lost Sketchbook and the Lecture23 September 2022
– Editors
These three sketches are from a sketchbook that Robert Maxwell used while studying at the Liverpool School of Architecture in 1944. They are reproduced here to mark the publication of…
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