Take Courage
8 March 2018
Take Courage8 March 2018
…1960s (of which the existing house is a humble example) and older forms (of which the neighbours are derivatives). Once this carapace had been determined, I was able to return…
DMJ 1 – The Geological Imagination
28 April 2023
DMJ 1 – The Geological Imagination28 April 2023
– Mark Dorrian and Kurt Forster
…Lot’s wife for looking behind her we all know was changed into a pillar of Salt & remains so to this day!’ [2] The statue was likely to have been derived from…
Architectural Ethnography: Japan Pavilion
12 June 2018
Architectural Ethnography: Japan Pavilion12 June 2018
…with drawings gathered together under the name of Architectural Ethnography. Momoyo Kaijima of Atelier Bow Wow has been developing the thinking underlying this method of observing and recording the human…
Gowan and Stirling
1 March 2019
Gowan and Stirling1 March 2019
…that he began the drawing in order to better understand why the break-up had occurred. He had concluded – but I’m not sure when – that the division was perhaps…
Flores & Prats Sala Beckett International Drama Centre (2020): REVIEW & EXCERPTS
30 March 2021
Flores & Prats Sala Beckett International Drama Centre (2020): REVIEW & EXCERPTS30 March 2021
…order to be able to connect with that moment that most interested us about the former cooperative, in order to build our own version of its history, which was to…
Other Lives: Charles Eisen and Laugier’s Essai sur l’Architecture
26 December 2019
Other Lives: Charles Eisen and Laugier’s Essai sur l’Architecture26 December 2019
…represent a period subsequent to the primitive state of the tree structure, and yet, as ruins of an older culture, they represent a superseded past, with the gesture toward the…
The Decline of Architectural Drawing (1859)
11 May 2020
The Decline of Architectural Drawing (1859)11 May 2020
…number of architectural drawings on display in Conduit Street, left a less than positive impression on critic C. H. Smith. In an article published by The Builder, Smith describes what…
Gallaratese & Fagnano Olona (1976)
26 May 2020
Gallaratese & Fagnano Olona (1976)26 May 2020
…relationships. However, another aspect of this design was made clear to me by Fabio Reinhart driving through the San Bernardino Pass, as we often did, in order to reach Zurich…
Behind the Lines 10
19 June 2019
Behind the Lines 1019 June 2019
…of the £1000 All British House competition, The Builder, 1932. Rose and Abram, ‘third premiated design’, £1000 All British House, The Builder, 1932. When Samuel Hardy turned over the page…
Infinite Patterns in I. M. Pei’s Furniture Diagrams
12 January 2022
Infinite Patterns in I. M. Pei’s Furniture Diagrams12 January 2022
…eventually find that, ‘the same volumes are repeated in the same disorder (which repeated, would constitute an order: Order itself)’. The archive is often conceived as a static vault that…
Pan Scroll Zoom 15: Other Architects
7 July 2021
Pan Scroll Zoom 15: Other Architects7 July 2021
– Fabrizio Gallanti, Grace Mortlock and David Neustein
…technology and to figure out how we could actually make it work for us, in order to reframe the terms of engagement. David Neustein: We made a big gamble because…
A Dose of Dosio
24 December 2019
A Dose of Dosio24 December 2019
– Laura Harty
…its surface in order to render it translucent, and the use of oiled paper in the Dosio album indicates that these drawings are tracings. [3] In order to follow this, one must…
DMC plan section survey civic & municipal religion