Tim Robinson: Deep Mapping
26 February 2024
Tim Robinson: Deep Mapping26 February 2024
…the Abstract Expressionists. Maps have no consistent vanishing point, they are ‘not a Renaissance image which can be easily understood like a photograph, the eye is forced to roam, attention…
Where to Find a Drawing of a Swiss Gold Vault
28 February 2024
Where to Find a Drawing of a Swiss Gold Vault28 February 2024
…Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam. This contribution builds upon the author’s doctoral research, supervised by Laurent Stalder and Milica Topalović. A version of this text was previously presented at the Jaap…
Banham in Buffalo
13 May 2024
Banham in Buffalo13 May 2024
…comprehensive view of the city, was published by MIT Press in 1981. It traced the development of the city and recorded notable buildings: landmarks designed by Louis Sullivan, Daniel Burnham,…
Forecast and Fantasy: Architecture without Borders 1960s to 1980s – Review
30 January 2023
Forecast and Fantasy: Architecture without Borders 1960s to 1980s – Review30 January 2023
…On the contrary, the broader geographies that this exhibition maps show a more complex network of resonance, inspiration, and innovation. It shows how sources of ideas, such as new scientific…
Geography of Hope: Adolfo Natalini and Superstudio
18 January 2023
Geography of Hope: Adolfo Natalini and Superstudio18 January 2023
…poetic, imaginative and philosophical culture for the mind to dwell in, especially in the contemplation of our place in the wider universe, and of the purpose and character of our…
Disney: The Architecture of Staged Realities
10 September 2021
Disney: The Architecture of Staged Realities10 September 2021
https://vimeo.com/601593570 ‘Project Life Cycle’ provides a brief look into the complex work behind the scenes of a Walt Disney Company production. It is a meticulous formalisation that maps the industrial-organisational…
In the Archive: New and Found
1 December 2021
In the Archive: New and Found1 December 2021
– Editors
…Also, a December 1925 issue of Vanity Fair, here opened on a double-page spread about Hugh Ferriss and the ‘Zoning Law’ in New York. The magazine arrived with a group…
Sigurd Lewerentz: Punctum. seeing the detail
14 February 2022
Sigurd Lewerentz: Punctum. seeing the detail14 February 2022
…would be too dominant and that the unprotected edges of the glass could be exposed to vandalism. He was worried also that the windows are fixed and not able to be opened. 4. Plan of…
Growth or Composition? Colin Rowe to Louis Kahn
10 February 2022
Growth or Composition? Colin Rowe to Louis Kahn10 February 2022
…by Stan Allen. An auspicious meeting: At the end of 1955, a thirty-five-year-old academic named Colin Rowe visited the office of the twenty-year-older Louis Kahn: on Kahn’s drawing boards, a…
In the Archive: Laugier, Eisen, Boulogne, Petitot, Percier, Dumont and Hadid
22 March 2022
In the Archive: Laugier, Eisen, Boulogne, Petitot, Percier, Dumont and Hadid22 March 2022
…Peter’s in Rome. The association between trees and columns is not an unfamiliar one: already in the fifteenth century, the Florentine sculptor-architect Filarete postulated that columns derived from the upright…
Useless Terrain: The Ballynagrenia and Ballinderry Bog
7 December 2022
Useless Terrain: The Ballynagrenia and Ballinderry Bog7 December 2022
– Joseph Heffernan
…tall grasses. A route vanishes into a singular hazel wall with a viewing window stretching the length of the wall, framing the bog, watching, waiting. Ghostly bog bodies, buried and…
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