Charles Stanley Peach: Pioneer in Power
8 February 2022
Charles Stanley Peach: Pioneer in Power8 February 2022
β Andrew Jones
…here. Notes J. N. Hill, Pioneer in Power. [source unknown; after 1934]. E. Stanley Hall, ‘Obituary of Charles Stanley Peach’, Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects, vol. 61,…
La Casa Della Falsita
5 February 2020
La Casa Della Falsita5 February 2020
β Peter Wilson
…Della Falsita, Focus Furniture, Munich, 1981. Haus-Rücker-Co, catalogue spread from La Casa Della Falsita, Focus Furniture, Munich, 1981. Studio Alchymia, catalogue page from La Casa Della Falsita, Focus Furniture, Munich,…
William Butterfield: Forms and Transformations
10 July 2023
William Butterfield: Forms and Transformations10 July 2023
β Nicholas Olsberg
This text was first published in DMJournal No.1: The Geological Imagination (2023). Print copies of the Journal, and subscriptions for the first three issues, are now available through our online bookshop. We are currently…
Frank Lloyd Wright, House for Edith Carlson, 1939, Part II
7 November 2021
Frank Lloyd Wright, House for Edith Carlson, 1939, Part II7 November 2021
β Philippa Lewis
…of the Drawing Matter collection. Some of the texts were first published as ‘Behind the Lines’. Correspondence, ‘Below Zero’, house for Miss Edith A. Carlson, Superior, Wisconsin, 1939-42. Typescript. DMC 1809….
Future Scenarios, Part I
30 May 2013
Future Scenarios, Part I30 May 2013
β Niall Hobhouse and Nicholas Olsberg
…Cities were laced with radiowaves, shaped in fragments of planetary geometries, and pierced with sky-high roadways. Winold Reiss (1886–1953), Future City: study for a mural, 1938. Pencil on tracing paper…
OβDonnell + Tuomey in Conversation
8 May 2020
OβDonnell + Tuomey in Conversation8 May 2020
β Sheila O'Donnell and John Tuomey
Sheila O’Donnell (1953), composite plan drawing, Central European University, Budapest, 2013. Print on thick wove paper, 1200 × 1200 mm. DMC 3220. John Tuomey: Let me tell you the story…
Drawing from a Deep Well
22 September 2017
Drawing from a Deep Well22 September 2017
β Patrick Lynch
…and artworks) needed a complimentary mode of phenomenological involvement: participation. Cross on a Hill (with girl), St Peter’s, Klippan, 2012. Photograph courtesy Patrick Lynch. I decided, heeding Wittgenstein’s advice, to…
Viollet-le-Duc: Ruins in Reverse
22 January 2021
Viollet-le-Duc: Ruins in Reverse22 January 2021
β Thomas Gould
…comes from a frustrated will to picture something else (like the elsewhere of Viollet-le-Duc’s ruined tropic). The ludicrous frog, stolidly smoking a pipe, sits firm, as if to say: that’s enough…
Drawing Powers: conclusions
2 November 2021
Drawing Powers: conclusions2 November 2021
β Fernando Poeiras
…research was funded by of LIDA – Arts and Design Research Lab, with the financial support of FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P, through National funds….
The Wessex Project: Thomas Hardy, Architect: Part II
21 December 2022
The Wessex Project: Thomas Hardy, Architect: Part II21 December 2022
…Hardy: The Time-torn Man (London: Viking, 2006), pp.184-187. Thomas Hardy, A Laodicean (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1881; Penguin Classics, 1997), p.18. Ibid., p.29. Ibid., p.35. Ibid., p.60….
Stan Allen’s Situated Objects (2020): Review & Excerpt
24 February 2021
Stan Allen’s Situated Objects (2020): Review & Excerpt24 February 2021
β Niall Hobhouse
…Matter. Excerpt: Explaining by Drawing: In Axonometric “The plan determines everything; it is the decisive moment.” Le Corbusier, Toward an Architecture (1923) Stan Allen, Shinkenchiku, Residential Design Competition, 1981; 90-Degree…