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Alternative Histories: Taka Architects on Peter Märkli
28 February 2019
Alternative Histories: Taka Architects on Peter Märkli28 February 2019
TAKA architects, Peter Märkli’s ground floor plan for Haus Kuehnis, 2018. Plaster, corrugated card, Indian ink and red thread, 70 × 130 × 100 mm. Peter Märkli (1953), Haus Kuehnis,…
Alternative Histories: Doorzon Interieurarchitecten on Stefano de Martino
13 March 2019
Alternative Histories: Doorzon Interieurarchitecten on Stefano de Martino13 March 2019
– Stefanie Everaert and Caroline Lateur
Doorzon Interieurarchitecten, Stefano de Martino’s sketch for the Netherlands Dance Theatre, 2018. Paper, 315 × 200 × 20 mm. Stefano de Martino (1955), sketch, Nederlands Dans Theater, the Hague, c.1982….
without irony 1
28 May 2018
without irony 128 May 2018
Kathmandu International Airport, 25/04/2018. James Gowan, Trafalgar Road Housing, after 1968. DMC 2781.1….
G. E. Street: Drawing on Moulding
8 March 2018
G. E. Street: Drawing on Moulding8 March 2018
George Edmund Street (1824–1881), RIBA lecture, The Architect, 15 Dec, 1871. Anon (English), mouldings, Rouen Cathedral, c.1870. Pencil on paper, 354 × 253 mm. DMC 3056.4. Anon (English), Moulding of…
Soane’s Designs for Combe House, Continued
30 July 2020
Soane’s Designs for Combe House, Continued30 July 2020
John Soane (1753–1837), Combe House for Reymundo Putt, 1805–1811. Black ink and pencil on wove paper. Albert Richardson’s collector’s mark on verso, 340 × 682 mm. DMC 1845.r. John Soane…
Charles Percier
17 July 2017
Charles Percier17 July 2017
A Clean Mess Cleanliness is a trait shared by many architects and Charles Percier was no exception. The charming anecdote is told of Percier, the son of a laundrywoman, going…
Future Scenarios, Part II
31 May 2016
Future Scenarios, Part II31 May 2016
– Niall Hobhouse and Nicholas Olsberg
Louis Jean Desprez, The Founding of Alexandria, 1790. Watercolour, 630 × 980 mm. DMC 1213. FRAGMENTS: THE BUILDING SITE AND THE RUIN Louis-Jean Desprez turns to another legendary city of…
Alexander Pope: ‘et sibi’
1 August 2016
Alexander Pope: ‘et sibi’1 August 2016
Alexander Pope (188–1774), Letter to Francis Bird, c.1720. Ink on paper. DMC 2022r. The great poet carefully instructs Francis Bird on the memorial tablet for his father – also Alexander…
From the Desk of John Summerson
1 August 2016
From the Desk of John Summerson1 August 2016
John Summerson, Letter from the Director of Sir John Soane’s Museum, with illustration of museum cat, date unknown. Pen and ink on letterhead, 204 × 216 mm. DMC 2151. The…
Behind the Lines 13
10 October 2019
Behind the Lines 1310 October 2019
I selected a distant meadow in the midst of an empty landscape, barren and forlorn, to make a retreat for myself…. No sooner was the house completed than I knew…
Behind the Lines 10
19 June 2019
Behind the Lines 1019 June 2019
Samuel Hardy, entry for competition for an ‘All British £1000 House’, run by the Incorporated Association of Architects and Surveyors (IAAS). Pencil, pen, ink and watercolour on Whatman board, 755…
Writing Prize 2020: Figures of War
29 September 2020
Writing Prize 2020: Figures of War29 September 2020
– Francesco Marullo
Niccolò Machiavelli, Figures of Ordinanze, 2nd–3rd, from Dell’Arte della Guerra (1521) Niccolò Machiavelli concludes his treatise on the art of war (Dell’Arte della Guerra, 1521) with a series of diagrammatic…
theoretical & imaginary graphic design military drawing matter writing prize 2020 DMC publication concept & diagram