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Cedric Price: FIR Project

Cedric Price: FIR Project

Cedric Price (1934–2003), design for shed structure as model framework, c.1959. Print, 260 × 230 mm. DMC 2207.2. Tim Abrahams observed in his AR article, Shatwell Farm: Reshaping the Rural: ‘Looking…

Alternative Histories: Bovenbouw Architectuur on James Gowan

Alternative Histories: Bovenbouw Architectuur on James Gowan

Bovenbouw, James Gowan’s drawing in Sketchbook 10, 2018. Wood, cement, steel, brick, 235 × 235 × 590 mm. James Gowan (1923–2015), sketchbook 10, page 9, 1990. Pencil on paper, 148…

Grandorge’s Pavilion

Grandorge’s Pavilion

David Grandorge

https://vimeo.com/282816711 The timber pavilion shown in the film is being transported to its third incarnation, and from inside another shed to its second locale in Shatwell farmyard, where it will…

Stephen Taylor: Urban Rural

Stephen Taylor: Urban Rural

Stephen Taylor, Cowshed at Shatwell Farm, 2012. The existing enclave of Shatwell Farm has seen a slow decline in its agricultural industry over recent decades, rendering many of its buildings…

Dating Siza: The Malagueira ‘Cupula’

Dating Siza: The Malagueira ‘Cupula’

Manuel Montenegro

Álvaro Siza (1933), Malagueira, c.1977. Pencil on tracing paper, 417 × 587 mm. DMC 2111.02. The unbuilt half-dome (referred to by the architect as the ‘cupula’) at the Quinta da…

Alternative Histories: Bosshard, Tavor, van der Ploeg and Vihervaara on Bohdan Lachert

Alternative Histories: Bosshard, Tavor, van der Ploeg and Vihervaara on Bohdan Lachert

Bosshard, Tavor, van der Ploeg and Vihervaara, Bohdan Lachert’s sketch of partial facade for a post office, 2018. Acetate, acrylic, 250 × 120 × 350 mm. Bohdan Lachert (1900–1987), facade…

Madelon Vriesendorp

Madelon Vriesendorp

Niall Hobhouse and Madelon Vriesdendorp

OMA (1975), Madelon Vriesendorp (1945–) and Rem Koolhaas (1944–), Welfare Palace Hotel, Sunken Medusa Raft, 1975–1976. Gouache and acrylic on paper, 780 × 1140 mm. DMC 3000.1. Niall Hobhouse: There…

Mies: The Double or Panoramic Structure of the Perspective

Mies: The Double or Panoramic Structure of the Perspective

Desley Luscombe

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886–1969), Courthouse study, c.1935. Pen and India ink on wove paper, laid on board, 215 × 298 mm. DMC 2052. What is compelling about the

Battersea Redevelopment

Battersea Redevelopment

In Bat-Hat, our project for Battersea Power Station, we have divested the existing building of all that froze the immediate site, leaving only that which is considered important – its…

From a little below and to the right

From a little below and to the right

Niall Hobhouse

Edwin Lutyens (1869–1944), Elevation, perspective, section of moulding, 1915. Pencil and blue crayon on tracing, folded and overlaid. DMC 3197.8. There is a characteristic recurrence in Lutyens’ drawings of a…

Six Architects on their Dream Desks

Six Architects on their Dream Desks

Roz Barr, Biba Dow, Elizabeth Hatz, Emma Letizia Jones, Stephanie Macdonald and Helen Thomas

Drawing Matter recently acquired this design for a table, below. Although the work’s last sale in 1972 attributed the drawing to Thomas Chippendale, we are (perhaps wishfully) hoping that it…