1294 texts about architecture in drawings, models and photography. 773 writers on 870 architects.
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,…
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…
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…
OMA: Big Competitions—Reorienting the Modern Project
29.08.2024
OMA: Big Competitions—Reorienting the Modern Project29.08.2024
…a Mies van der Rohe and an Oscar Niemeyer project. In between, there was my drawing and Rem’s comment, ‘altruist machine’, that he did as a beautiful dedication for me….
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…
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…
Sigurd Lewerentz: Architect of Death and Life (2021): Review and Excerpts
15.11.2021
Sigurd Lewerentz: Architect of Death and Life (2021): Review and Excerpts15.11.2021
…Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe. But while these pioneering architects sought to engage internationally within an architectural dialogue, and thus influencing the architectural culture of their time, Lewerentz…
Drawing Parallels: John Hejduk’s Wall House 1
06.12.2021
Drawing Parallels: John Hejduk’s Wall House 106.12.2021
…explication of the Diamond Houses (the series of carefully calibrated and measured formal transformations, executed between 1963 and 1967, that owe much to Piet Mondrian, Le Corbusier, and Mies van…
Haus-Rücker-Co.
09.10.2015
Haus-Rücker-Co.09.10.2015
…projects during this period involved interventions in which a house or building would be ‘stolen’ and adapted to radical new uses. The proposed occupation of Mies van der Rohe’s Haus…
Materia 2: Corrugated Iron
14.07.2022
Materia 2: Corrugated Iron14.07.2022
…component became, within early modernist architect’s hands (especially those who looked more to the Marxism of Hannes Meyer and Mart Stam than the phenomenological muteness of Ludwig Mies van der…
In the Archive: Riefenstahl, Hitler, Ebhardt, Sironi, Brasini
04.11.2024
In the Archive: Riefenstahl, Hitler, Ebhardt, Sironi, Brasini04.11.2024
…room at the 1935 Brussels World’s Fair. The National Socialist government invited six architects, including Mies van der Rohe to design the German Pavilion. The brief included some specific instructions,…
Clancy Moore Architects: Atcost
20.09.2021
Clancy Moore Architects: Atcost20.09.2021
– Andrew Clancy and Colm Moore
…Photo: Sue Barr The Atcost Building has been nominated for the 2022 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award. This text is part of an ongoing series…
The Manufacture of Architecture: Joseph Paxton and the Development of the Great Stove
09.11.2023
The Manufacture of Architecture: Joseph Paxton and the Development of the Great Stove09.11.2023
…Drawing Matter, completed in 2014. The building was nominated for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture—Mies van der Rohe Award 2015. In parallel with his practice, Hugh is currently…
Torrentius, or The Visage of Time
03.03.2025
Torrentius, or The Visage of Time03.03.2025
– Pierre Chabard
…crypt by the Vandenhove Office, Spring 1979. © Jeanne and Charles Vandenhove Foundation. Charles Vandenhove, two studies for the crypt entrance and the English courtyard, Winter 1980. © Jeanne and Charles Vandenhove…
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