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The Iterative Power of Architecture’s Absence
07.04.2022
The Iterative Power of Architecture’s Absence07.04.2022
…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
04.10.2022
In the Archive: Petit, Lebas, Fontaine, Le Corbusier and Kolář04.10.2022
…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
19.08.2019
Dom Hans van der Laan: Drawing the Scottish Tartan19.08.2019
…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 Evolving Role of Drawing
29.04.2022
The Evolving Role of Drawing29.04.2022
…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…
The Routledge Companion to Architectural Drawings and Models (2021) – Review
24.11.2022
The Routledge Companion to Architectural Drawings and Models (2021) – Review24.11.2022
…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…
Drawing as Signature: Paul Rudolph and the Perspective Section
12.12.2024
Drawing as Signature: Paul Rudolph and the Perspective Section12.12.2024
…in colourful sketches he began producing of his own buildings in the 1960s, culminating many years later in a series analysing the plan of Mies van der Rohe’s German or…
Stone Adversaries – Ruskin’s Rocks, Hejduk’s Diamonds
24.10.2016
Stone Adversaries – Ruskin’s Rocks, Hejduk’s Diamonds24.10.2016
…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
22.02.2019
Alternative Histories: Carmody Groarke on Haus-Rücker-Co22.02.2019
…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…
Vanishing Points: Architectural Imagination in the Digital Universe
09.02.2023
Vanishing Points: Architectural Imagination in the Digital Universe09.02.2023
…from the Drawing Matter archive. From the elegant formality of Mies van der Rohe, to the painterly compositions of John Hejduk; from a precious hand-drawn plan by Le Corbusier, to a comical sketch by James Gowan,…
Exploding Art and Architecture: Zaha Hadid’s Irish Prime Minister’s Residence Sketchbook
17.04.2025
Exploding Art and Architecture: Zaha Hadid’s Irish Prime Minister’s Residence Sketchbook17.04.2025
…compositions of overlapping triangles, curved lines, crosses, beams and warped rectangles, echoing Malevich’s suprematist compositions. Hadid discussed in an interview about her project how she admired Mies van der Rohe’s…
Remembering Architecture
18.10.2023
Remembering Architecture18.10.2023
…of past decisions: even if a Mies van der Rohe chair was selected for comfort or aesthetics, it also represents a particular brand of connoisseurship. Photography adds further layers and…
Ernö Goldfinger: Westminster Bank
11.02.2025
Ernö Goldfinger: Westminster Bank11.02.2025
…modernist office architecture, such as Mies van der Rohe’s Seagram Building in New York (1958). Goldfinger’s belief that a façade should reveal a building’s structural members came from his mentor,…
James Stirling, and the Industrialization of Architecture?
26.04.2024
James Stirling, and the Industrialization of Architecture?26.04.2024
…integrated into the industrialization of architecture. Robin Evans, Mies: The Horizon, online article, DM, 14 June 2020, <https://drawingmatter.org/mies-the-horizon/> [Accessed 23 March 2024]. Landry Smith, Mies van der Rohe and the…
David K. Ross: Archetypes (2021) – Review and Excerpt
11.01.2022
David K. Ross: Archetypes (2021) – Review and Excerpt11.01.2022
…uses as a point of departure for her poetic contribution to this publication, was most literally realized in Mies van der Rohe’s life-size model for the Kroller-Muller House (1912–13) in…
ETH Zurich: Casting the Cornice in Ticino
08.01.2020
ETH Zurich: Casting the Cornice in Ticino08.01.2020
– Emma Letizia Jones and Erik Wegerhoff
…in Aquila, drawings picked by students from the Drawing Matter archive featuring cornices from Antonio da Sangallo, Henri Labrouste, Hans Poelzig, Mies van der Rohe, Michael Graves and many others,…
Álvaro Siza: The Adoration of the Magi
19.01.2022
Álvaro Siza: The Adoration of the Magi19.01.2022
…p. 30). An entirely new second phase won the inaugural Mies van der Rohe Award (1988) by tectonically fracturing the stairs in interior and exterior segments, waving down to the…
Helmut Jacoby: The Amon Carter Museum
22.03.2024
Helmut Jacoby: The Amon Carter Museum22.03.2024
…Modernism with Mies van der Rohe at the Seagram Building (1954 –1958), and concluding with the Post Modernist fantasy of the Lipstick Building (where Bernie Madoff had his offices) and…
Growing up Modern: Childhoods in Iconic Homes (2021) – Review
13.06.2022
Growing up Modern: Childhoods in Iconic Homes (2021) – Review13.06.2022
…the Tugendhat house in Brno designed by Mies van der Rohe, as described by Ernst Tugendhat, who lived there for the first eight years of his life, is shot through…
Vor-textu(r)al Translations from Building to Drawing
22.09.2025
Vor-textu(r)al Translations from Building to Drawing22.09.2025
…Similarly, it explores the familiar space of Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona Pavilion. Models of the project were constructed and basins of ink inserted into their interiors. The ink, propelled…
Architectural Drawing (1983)
22.06.2021
Architectural Drawing (1983)22.06.2021
…‘unbuilts’, of course, because the mechanics of carrying them out over time eradicate much of their flair. Sometimes, as with Mies Van der Rohe’s glass skyscrapers, the higher technology of…
Sugimoto and Architecture: A Conversation between David Chipperfield and Ralph Rugoff
29.04.2024
Sugimoto and Architecture: A Conversation between David Chipperfield and Ralph Rugoff29.04.2024
– David Chipperfield and Ralph Rugoff
…(World Trade Center) and Mies van der Rohe (Seagram Building)—as an attempt on his part to conjure the initial inspiration as it first emerged in the mind of the architect….
Sugimoto and Architecture
29.04.2024
Sugimoto and Architecture29.04.2024
…and being hard to live in was the definition of livability… In the short peace that prevailed after the First World War, brilliant minds like Le Corbusier, Gropius, Mies van…
Simplification
06.05.2011
Simplification06.05.2011
– 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…
theoretical & imaginary work on paper (series) sketch DMC plan section elevation projection (axonometric isometric) concept & diagram