Mario Sironi
27 March 2017
Mario Sironi27 March 2017
Mario Sironi (1855–1961), Architectural Study, c.1925–1938. Pencil and black ink on paper, 175 × 225 mm. DMC 2037.12. Politics as a Pretext for Making Mario Sironi compromised and traumatised in…
Cedric Price: Bathat
8 August 2016
Cedric Price: Bathat8 August 2016
…sit astride a flying platform. We instantly recognise the volume and mass of Battersea Power Station; but the weight has vanished with the walls. The uplift is palpable: thin red…
OMA in Scheveningen
22 July 2020
OMA in Scheveningen22 July 2020
…OMA-theatre was demolished in 2016. After municipal elections, the commission was awarded to another consortium of architects and contractors, their new theatre complex is under construction at present. The purpose…
OMA’S NEDERLANDS DANS THEATER
15 December 2018
OMA’S NEDERLANDS DANS THEATER15 December 2018
…Theater, c.1982. Pencil and crayon on tracing, 340 × 297 mm. DMC 3000.8.1. Since you have asked about the two small sketches from Luce van Rooy Gallery attributed to Zaha:…
Alternative Histories: ECTV on Tony Fretton
29 July 2019
Alternative Histories: ECTV on Tony Fretton29 July 2019
…outdoors. Our window in the party wall makes both logics from both sides tangible. With this intervention we remain well within budget. – ECTV, Els Claessens en Tania Vandenbussche Back to all models…
Alternative Histories: NP2F Architectes on Mario Sironi
13 March 2019
Alternative Histories: NP2F Architectes on Mario Sironi13 March 2019
…uses. Sironi’s fair pavilion works as a receptacle for many uses, as the playground of Aldo Van Eyck or Isamu Noguchi that come alive through their content and the quality…
Palladio’s Lines
15 October 2020
Palladio’s Lines15 October 2020
…refined by Bernard Picart, Michael Vandergucht and John Harris. Although the woodcut and print editions differ, illustrations in both can be regarded conceptually as ‘Palladio’s Lines’. The dual formation of…
Architecture and Geology
7 February 2017
Architecture and Geology7 February 2017
…to stone. Is such technical flakiness the other side of the intellectual vanity that tempted the nascent profession to style itself a science? The yearning to submit architecture to a…
In the Archive: OMA, Neutelings, Hejduk, Gowan
1 March 2020
In the Archive: OMA, Neutelings, Hejduk, Gowan1 March 2020
– Richard Hall and Emma Rutherford
…a dérive—gently steered by the drawers Niall chose to open—via Cedric Price, Adler and Sullivan, Karl Friedrich Shinkel, Frank Lloyd Wright, Stirling and Gowan and the New York Five; unexpectedly…
I Cut Mount Fuji Every Day
31 May 2021
I Cut Mount Fuji Every Day31 May 2021
…Humble and ubiquitous, onions are where most dinners begin; the vanguard vegetable leading the charge on the cutting board, only to be cut down around its sulfoxide banner. Kathy Prendergast’s…
The H-plan: Breuer, Stirling, Gowan
5 August 2021
The H-plan: Breuer, Stirling, Gowan5 August 2021
…article by Noelia Galván Desvaux, Eduardo Carazo Lefort, Antonio Álvaro Tordesillas, ‘Casa para un mundo feliz’ [Design of a house for Cheerful Living] 1945, on the competition of the same…
Permanence
18 April 2017
Permanence18 April 2017
– Elizabeth Hatz
…art, is a way of asking forgiveness for being mortal (consider the Egyptians or Etruscans), making something last long after the last sigh of its author and searching for a…
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