Reflections on my Internship
27 April 2022
Reflections on my Internship27 April 2022
…is elevated about five feet off the floor and can only be accessed by pulling out an old desk on wheels from under the bed and then pulling out the…
The Wessex Project: Thomas Hardy, Architect: Part I
12 December 2022
The Wessex Project: Thomas Hardy, Architect: Part I12 December 2022
…the vanishing points or ‘setting out’ lines used to construct them, although several drawings use grids to help with the simple ‘scaling-up’ of flat images. Many of the drawings are…
fala: photography
13 December 2022
fala: photography13 December 2022
– fala
…more truthful to our intentions than the building can be. They can be exaggerated to our advantage. They can be choreographed and fictionalised. The space then quickly vanishes. The occupant…
The Matter of Drawing
3 August 2019
The Matter of Drawing3 August 2019
…the invitation to re-work these drawings opens a yawning chasm of doubts. Can you emerge from the shadow of Ronchamp, or under the weight of Battersea Power Station, interrogating the…
Harvey Wiley Corbett on Architectural Models of Cardboard
19 September 2019
Harvey Wiley Corbett on Architectural Models of Cardboard19 September 2019
…of a store in a downtown street, slender, round sticks that seemed to be of about the size I needed. I went in and asked about them and was told…
Tales from the crypt
18 October 2019
Tales from the crypt18 October 2019
…Chapel reredos in Anglican Cathedral, St James’s Mount, Liverpool, 1920. Pencil on unknown paper. RIBA Collections. And so I wonder if mortal thoughts were on Scott’s mind when he won…
Yasmeen Lari: Drawn Closer
7 April 2020
Yasmeen Lari: Drawn Closer7 April 2020
…walls you have to build in wooden ladder-like frames/assemblies that we had designed to provide resilience. This had never been done in this area before, which made it difficult to…
Animals
5 May 2020
Animals5 May 2020
– James Gowan and Ellis Woodman
…couple of days later. It was that sense of wonder I was aiming for. EW: The drawings have something in common with the collages that Hans Hollein was producing in…
The San Cataldo Ossuary in the Age of Hyper-Objects
16 April 2020
The San Cataldo Ossuary in the Age of Hyper-Objects16 April 2020
Stefano Corbo, San Cataldo’s Ossuary: multi-directional extrusions, 2020. © Stefano Corbo. I An abandoned house – a derelict phantom with no roof and no windows – reveals the twofold condition…
Daria’s Aria
23 April 2020
Daria’s Aria23 April 2020
…almost identical line-up of contributors, with Ponti himself writing under, apparently, 22 different pen names. Guarnati’s vision also found its way to America, in the form of the iconoclastic Flair, founded…
The City of Design
9 January 2023
The City of Design9 January 2023
– Emilio Ambasz
…some of the members of the group dwelling in the streets have climbed up to the buildings’ rooftops, hoping that – from this vantage point – they could be able…
theoretical & imaginary landscape