DMJ – Grids and Squared Paper in Renaissance Architecture
14 February 2024
DMJ – Grids and Squared Paper in Renaissance Architecture14 February 2024
β Fabio Colonnese
…Culture. Baldassare Peruzzi, Plan for Palazzo Orsini, c.1519. Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe degli Uffizi, Florence, f.456A. Ink, red chalk and watercolour on squared paper, 57.8 x 80.7cm. Reproduced with the…
Besides, History (2018): Book Review
9 August 2021
Besides, History (2018): Book Review9 August 2021
β Stan Allen
…Rooms, Ordos, China, 2008-2009. Courtesy of the CCA. Go Hasegawa and Associates, House in Sakuradai Mie, Japan, 2005-2006. Courtesy of the CCA. It is worth pointing out, finally, that ‘history’…
Drawing the Curtain: Entangling rendering and theatrical space
2 February 2021
Drawing the Curtain: Entangling rendering and theatrical space2 February 2021
β Thomas Hutton
…division so as not to see it at all. All three surviving Renaissance theatres – the Teatro Farnese (Parma), Teatro all’Antica (Sabionetta), and Teatro Olimpico (Vicenza) – used forced perspective…
Frank Lloyd Wright at Drawing Matter
25 June 2024
Frank Lloyd Wright at Drawing Matter25 June 2024
β Editors and Nicholas Olsberg
…Fifty-Eight’, 1939. Typescript with hand amendments, 280 × 217 mm. DMC 3491. IMPRINTS, 1925–1946 Perspective, plan, and axonometrics, “Modern” House for Blackbourns, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1938. Print, 355 × 270 mm….
Drawing Out Gehry
20 August 2018
Drawing Out Gehry20 August 2018
β Riet Eeckhout
…the subject. I trace and draw in modes of observation and speculation until I reach a turning point – a poiesis – where the drawing leaves its status as one thing (its representational role) to become something…
Elliott Glushak vs. The City of New York
27 January 2021
Elliott Glushak vs. The City of New York27 January 2021
β Philippa Lewis
…have not yet achieved that recognition themselves. (Matter of Oyer v. State Tax Comm., 2 N.Y.2d 942; Matter of Traub v. Goodrich, 2 N.Y.2d 759; Matter of Booz v. Bragalini, 2 A.D.2d 639.) We hold,…
The Measure of It: An Essay on Measured Drawings
31 January 2022
The Measure of It: An Essay on Measured Drawings31 January 2022
…Madama, Rome, 1998 (top left); . base mouldings, garden facade of Villa Madama, Rome, 1998 (bottom left). Minor order base mouldings, Nave of St. Peter’s, Rome, 1998 (top right); base…
The Project of Independence: Architectures of Decolonization in South Asia, 1947-1985 (2022) – Review
10 November 2022
The Project of Independence: Architectures of Decolonization in South Asia, 1947-1985 (2022) – Review10 November 2022
β Esra Akcan
…p. 15. See especially: “Brazil Builds” (1943), “Latin American Architecture since 1945” (1956), “The Architecture of Luis Barragan” (1976), “Mies Award for Latin American Architecture” (1998). The recent history exhibition…
Heinz Isler: Natural Hills on Different Edge Lines
14 November 2023
Heinz Isler: Natural Hills on Different Edge Lines14 November 2023
β John Chilton
…to refine the shape of his most spectacular free-form shells—Gips Union, Bex (1968); Deitingen Süd (1968); Pavillon Sicli, Geneva (1969/70); Naturtheater, Grötzingen, Germany (1977-8); and the much-repeated tennis halls. However,…
Conjunction and Incongruity
1 September 2018
Conjunction and Incongruity1 September 2018
β Polly Gould
…Phase of Nothingness, 1971. Xerox copy, ink and pencil, 730 × 1010 mm. DMC 2165. Peter Smithson (1923–2003), Study for a Wooden Obelisk, Hadspen House, Somerset, c.2000. Print, 300 ×…
Nuno Melo Sousa: on walls
26 May 2023
Nuno Melo Sousa: on walls26 May 2023
β Nuno Melo Sousa
…it to the wrong physical element – a corner, a hole, a curb, a joint. They’re a path to clarify problems of dichotomy, language, alphabet, miscommunication. Literally connecting dots. And,…