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Writing Prize 2020: Architectural Apparitions
7 January 2021
Writing Prize 2020: Architectural Apparitions7 January 2021
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886–1969), Friedrichstrasse Skyscraper, 1921. Photomontage, 1400 × 1000 mm. Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin. Some dreams are never meant to see the light of day. Like a wild…
Tradition and Modernity, Continuity and Critique
4 March 2021
Tradition and Modernity, Continuity and Critique4 March 2021
…Mies van der Rohe, Reichsbank Extension Berlin, 1933. Silver gelatin print, 110 × 153 mm. DMC 2690. The grid has served as ‘the image of an absolute beginning’, as Rosalind…
Parataxis
28 December 2017
Parataxis28 December 2017
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886–1969), Hubbe House, 1934–1935. Silver photostat, 212 × 301 mm. DMC 2877.5. ‘Whatever elements that may come to hand or that are selected from the…
Simplification
6 May 2011
Simplification6 May 2011
– Niall Hobhouse and Nicholas Olsberg
…— a skyscraper with no real weight or corners — are not just buildings represented by thin black lines and crossmarks, but buildings composed of them. Ludwig Mies van der…
The Iterative Power of Architecture’s Absence
7 April 2022
The Iterative Power of Architecture’s Absence7 April 2022
…Office Kersten Geers David Van Severen – Seven Rooms (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2009). From the Drawing Matter Collection: two urban insertions Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886–1969), competition entry showing urban…
In the Archive: Petit, Lebas, Fontaine, Le Corbusier and Kolář
4 October 2022
In the Archive: Petit, Lebas, Fontaine, Le Corbusier and Kolář4 October 2022
…1052.2.21), Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine (DMC 1853) and Jiří Kolář (DMC 1489r). Lebas’ nineteenth century studies of Rome, contained in an eighty-three-page…
Dom Hans van der Laan: Drawing the Scottish Tartan
19 August 2019
Dom Hans van der Laan: Drawing the Scottish Tartan19 August 2019
…tartans. Dom Hans van der Laan (1904–1991), Pattern of the Menzies tartan, 1968. Ink on paper. © Van der Laan Archives, St-Benedictusberg Vaals. Dom Hans van der Laan (1904–1991), Pattern…
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
…became a powerful tool in decision making without any need for slavish mimicry. Then again, in Chapter 19, Dietrich Neumann’s account of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s archive and its…
The Evolving Role of Drawing
29 April 2022
The Evolving Role of Drawing29 April 2022
…to more neutral and literal formats. Mies van der Rohe — though a master at sketching space, vista and volume — favoured the photomontage of models through which the radicalism…
Stone Adversaries – Ruskin’s Rocks, Hejduk’s Diamonds
24 October 2016
Stone Adversaries – Ruskin’s Rocks, Hejduk’s Diamonds24 October 2016
…organ L’ésprit nouveau; and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the architect once associated with the Bauhaus, and one of several prominent refugees who enjoyed influential careers in the United States as…
Alternative Histories: Carmody Groarke on Haus-Rücker-Co
22 February 2019
Alternative Histories: Carmody Groarke on Haus-Rücker-Co22 February 2019
…technological implications that created the artificial environment and focusses instead on the spatial tension created between Mies van der Rohe’s Haus Lange and the heart-shaped bubble that surrounds it. The…
The changing metropolis 1900–1930s
26 November 2013
The changing metropolis 1900–1930s26 November 2013
– Niall Hobhouse and Nicholas Olsberg
…Burnham used the roof, with its finials, elevator shaft and water tower, as a landmarking feature. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886–1969), Photomontage for an office building for Stuttgart’s Hindenburgplatz,…
public space work on paper (series) DMC projection (axonometric isometric) topographic/cartographic commerce culture urban form