Architects at Play (2023) – Review
15 May 2023
Architects at Play (2023) – Review15 May 2023
David Malaud, Architects at Play Exhibition, Pavilion Sicli, Geneva, 27 April–11 June 2023. Photo © Guillaume Robert. What is the reason for playing if not to weave relationships with the…
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…
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…
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…
Mies van der Rohe and the Universal Space Project
30 August 2022
Mies van der Rohe and the Universal Space Project30 August 2022
…Fox River property over the years (which Mies planned for, but obviously underestimated), for Robert Silman Associates’ semi-recent proposed in-situ hydraulic solution to preserve the house, and for the Neue…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Sweet Disorder and the Carefully Careless: Ideas, Faces and Places (2022) – review
31 October 2022
Sweet Disorder and the Carefully Careless: Ideas, Faces and Places (2022) – review31 October 2022
– Eric Parry and Robin Webster
…Scott. The opening of the exhibition and symposium about the architect Robert (Bob) Maxwell and the sculptor Celia Scott was held in the elegant home of the Irish Architectural Archive,…
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…
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