Aldo & Adolf
13 December 2019
Aldo & Adolf13 December 2019
…would be used according to the specification of the theoreticians or altogether overturned; green Corinthian capitals would enclose large window frames made of iron; each fragile ‘collage’ would vanish in…
Eric Parry: India, 1975
7 February 2019
Eric Parry: India, 19757 February 2019
…cofounder of ASAG – Ahmedabad Study Action Group. Eric Parry (1952), India sketchbook, p.19, 1975. Pencil on paper. This next page of text refers to ASAG who are a group…
Mussolini and the Tomb of Augustus in the Spring of 1935
20 November 2018
Mussolini and the Tomb of Augustus in the Spring of 193520 November 2018
…posterity by the classical past. Phrased differently: these monuments, or their ruins, could not project themselves into the future while being crowded out or under the accretions of the intervening…
Superstudio: Another Mirror Image
17 February 2021
Superstudio: Another Mirror Image17 February 2021
…– its aftermath a cornerstone of the Superstudio group’s founding myth – all but vanished, cultivated and tamed. The city of Florence all but gone, turned into rolling green hills…
Behind the Lines 2
19 December 2017
Behind the Lines 219 December 2017
…in Life, the fitted cupboards with the open curved shelf-end forming a room divider between the cooking and eating in the dinette. Here, pride of place, she planned a glass-topped table –…
On Tony Fretton and the Lisson Gallery
5 February 2021
On Tony Fretton and the Lisson Gallery5 February 2021
…that he wasn’t a branding type of architect. He was extremely thoughtful about not just how it looked but about its purpose. You know, even the old Louis Sullivan function…
26 Kingly Street Co-Op
21 June 2021
26 Kingly Street Co-Op21 June 2021
– Editors
…showing of his work at the Gallery in 1967, the same year Jeffrey Shaw and Tjebbe van Tijen exhibited ‘Breathing, Airmatter, Soundform.’ This is the first issue of their journal….
Christmas Reading List 2020
22 December 2020
Christmas Reading List 202022 December 2020
– Editors
…are already a number of exciting texts waiting in the wings for publication in the New Year! Drawing Matter Christmas Reading List: Marie-José Van Hee: Drawn Closer By Helen Thomas, published…
New Babylon (1963)
3 September 2015
New Babylon (1963)3 September 2015
– Constant
…of words, oral, printed traditions fixed the cities as a law of life for generations – conquered and vanquished before and re-erected. Buried under a hollowed time, or still an…
Peter Wilson and Mark Dorrian in conversation – Part 1
20 June 2024
Peter Wilson and Mark Dorrian in conversation – Part 120 June 2024
– Mark Dorrian and Peter Wilson
…flat polder landscape with NATO Starfighters booming overhead. Then we headed for Italy. Realising that it was going to take weeks, we skipped northern Germany by train. We must have…
Ferdinando Galli Bibiena
19 May 2017
Ferdinando Galli Bibiena19 May 2017
…Ferdinando Galli Bibiena, the viewer’s line of sight ricocheted off the centre and shot in opposite directions off stage, a new prospect of social and architectural order was proposed. For…
Stan Allen’s Situated Objects (2020): Review & Excerpt
24 February 2021
Stan Allen’s Situated Objects (2020): Review & Excerpt24 February 2021
– Niall Hobhouse
…vanishing point are both located at an infinite distance. But axonometrics have a pictorial quality, too, approximating the appearance of the building and faithfully describing the internal relationships of the…