Henri Guerbois: Department Store in King Street, 1921
5 October 2021
Henri Guerbois: Department Store in King Street, 19215 October 2021
…is the luxury of choice. You might have a marcel wave, buy a novel, drink a cup of tea, or go to the powder room – all of it under…
Thomas Henry Wyatt’s Brook House
12 June 2020
Thomas Henry Wyatt’s Brook House12 June 2020
…House, published in The Builder in July 1870. A separate pavilion (shown on the left hand side of the drawing) housed the billiards’ room and servants’ quarters and was linked…
Colin Rowe: Piazza Augusto Imperatore (1995)
5 March 2020
Colin Rowe: Piazza Augusto Imperatore (1995)5 March 2020
…that sprang up in the ages of decadence shall vanish. The millenary monuments of our history shall stand out as giants in solitary splendour. – Benito Mussolini, 1926 And he…
Leonhard Lapin: Objects on the Beach
13 December 2019
Leonhard Lapin: Objects on the Beach13 December 2019
…Soon, Lapin emerged as an intellectual leader of a group of architects and artists – later named the Tallinn School – who distanced themselves from the self-sufficient disciplinary approach of…
Fabric Object: Diana Agrest and Mario Gandelsonas
25 July 2024
Fabric Object: Diana Agrest and Mario Gandelsonas25 July 2024
– Darell Wayne Fields, Anda French, Tessa Kelly, Paul Lewis and Michael Meredith
…2021-2022. Tessa Kelly is a co-founder of Group Architecture and Urbanism (Group AU), as well as co-founder of The Mastheads, a public design non-profit in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. She is currently teaching…
Caruso St John Collected Works: Volume 1, 1990 – 2005 – Review
21 February 2023
Caruso St John Collected Works: Volume 1, 1990 – 2005 – Review21 February 2023
…a reader, one is invited to enter the universe of two architects who are searching for their position in the late 1990s architectural scene. They take a critical stance towards the…
Thinking Through Twentieth-Century Architecture (2023) – Review
17 August 2023
Thinking Through Twentieth-Century Architecture (2023) – Review17 August 2023
…Kahn, column, beam, vault and ventilation slot, Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, USA, 1972. © Nicholas Ray. The bait that lures the reader into this otherwise familiar historiography is…
Architectural Typefaces
29 May 2020
Architectural Typefaces29 May 2020
…drawn by the architect, instructions that would allow another to reproduce these letterforms exactly? Perhaps an engineer or a builder could find this useful, but I doubt that a trained…
Sydney’s Infill Facades
5 July 2024
Sydney’s Infill Facades5 July 2024
…19th-century architecture. Alongside their contemporaries such as the work of Peddle Thorp, Walker’s AMP Building, or Rudder Littlemore & Rudder’s Qantas House, these infill buildings are categorised within Sydney’s Modern…
Reality Modeled After Images: Architecture and Aesthetics after the Digital Image (2022) — Review
24 February 2024
Reality Modeled After Images: Architecture and Aesthetics after the Digital Image (2022) — Review24 February 2024
…the architect, who used it to render solid from void, not only in detailed drawings but also in general plans and elevations. Sciographia is the origin of that convention that…
Through a Glass Darkly
6 June 2023
Through a Glass Darkly6 June 2023
…hollow tombs on every side,—the white river bed and its clear stream, edged with superb scarlet-tufted blossom of oleander alternating with groups of white-flowered bloom,—all these combine to form a…
The Palace of Dawn and Dusk / Palacio del Alba y del Ocaso
17 July 2023
The Palace of Dawn and Dusk / Palacio del Alba y del Ocaso17 July 2023
– Alberto Cruz
…origination of one of them, but rather that it participates directly in their generation. It participates, we might say, shoulder to shoulder, in the concrete generation of a work. Anybody…
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