James Gowan Millbank: Sketches and Comments
9 December 2019
James Gowan Millbank: Sketches and Comments9 December 2019
β Matt Page
…on the first sketch. James Gowan (1923–2015), Illustration 3 (left page), 1977. Pen on paper, pasted into Daler spiral-bound sketchbook, 148 × 210 mm. DMC 2656. (3) The second proposition…
Landing Square Scenarios: The Wilhelmina Pier & Luxor Theatre
29 January 2024
Landing Square Scenarios: The Wilhelmina Pier & Luxor Theatre29 January 2024
β Peter Wilson
…effect. BOLLES+WILSON, ventilation funnels, Hotel New York, Rotterdam. Courtesy of the author. BOLLES+WILSON, ventilation funnels, Hotel New York, Rotterdam. Courtesy of the author. Quite clearly Rotterdam, with its close-packed towers…
Architectural Covers: A Site of Design
7 February 2024
Architectural Covers: A Site of Design7 February 2024
β Sarah Hearne
…1: Reparations (2023), 28-33. Brian D. Goldstein, ‘Reforming Renewal’ in The Roots of Urban Renaissance: Gentrification and the Struggle over Harlem (Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2017), 16-56. Sarah Hearne is an…
Boompjes I
22 February 2019
Boompjes I22 February 2019
…(1955), Boompjes, view from Oude Haven (Old Harbour), 1982. Xerox, 297 × 420 mm. Hans Werlemann, contact sheet, Boompjes Bridge, 1982. Photograph, 297 × 210 mm. When I moved to…
Collection of Sections
2 December 2020
Collection of Sections2 December 2020
β Allen Keith Yee
…dei Fiorentini, 1607. Jacques Lemercier (c. 1585–1654) was a prominent French Baroque architect who designed the Pavillon de l’Horloge at the Palais du Louvre in Paris. Early in his career, Lemercier apprenticed in…
Hans Hollein’s Immunological City
12 May 2021
Hans Hollein’s Immunological City12 May 2021
β Dhruv Mehta
…Montage, Media, and Experimental Architecture in the 1960s ( Minneapolis, 2019). Peter Sloterdijk, Spheres Volume II: Macrospherology, Globes (Cambridge: MA, 2014). Mark Wigley, ‘Whatever Happened to Total Design?’, Harvard Design…
Drawing Exercises: Design Process
14 July 2023
Drawing Exercises: Design Process14 July 2023
β Matt Page and Fernando Poeiras
…of different solutions to a problem. Zaha Hadid (1950–2016), sketch, Azabu-Juban (developer proposal), 1986. Ink on paper from Hotel Copacabana Palace, Brasil, 150 × 105 mm. DMC 3077.1. Subtraction and…
Stone Adversaries β Ruskinβs Rocks, Hejdukβs Diamonds
24 October 2016
Stone Adversaries β Ruskinβs Rocks, Hejdukβs Diamonds24 October 2016
β Anthony Auerbach
…indeed.’ Works XV, 50. 6.Works XV, 82, §94. 7. Fors Clavigera, Letter 60 (1875), Works XXVIII, 461. 8. ‘A holiday task.’ Works XV, xxv. 9. The Seven Lamps of Architecture, 1849. Works VIII, 21. Conversely, Ruskin asserted…
Postmodern Australia: Robert Pearceβs Drawings for Edmond and Corrigan
1 February 2022
Postmodern Australia: Robert Pearceβs Drawings for Edmond and Corrigan1 February 2022
β Yvette Putra
…Archives, Melbourne, 006.2017.0002. © Anne Shearman. The fashion illustrator Robert Pearce – who had, as per Corrigan, ‘a highly personal and evocative flash-trash graphic style’ – made, while in Edmond…
Writing Prize 2020: Smudgy Logic β A Short Story
30 November 2020
Writing Prize 2020: Smudgy Logic β A Short Story30 November 2020
β Aris Kafantaris
‘it is dangerous to unmask images, since they dissimulate the fact that there is nothing behind them.’ – Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation ‘so you compute with smudgy pictures?’ – K-32, Universal Fabricator Kengo…
Writing Prize 2020: The Anatomy of an Oyster Theatre
14 December 2020
Writing Prize 2020: The Anatomy of an Oyster Theatre14 December 2020
β Emilie Banville
…archive, written in French in 1987 Vocabulary term pertaining to ‘genetic criticism’. See: Biasi, Pierre-Marc de. « Pour une approche génétique de l’architecture ». Genesis (Manuscrits-Recherche-Invention) 14 (2000) : 13-65. …
Architecture and Real Abstraction: Adler & Sullivan
12 September 2023
Architecture and Real Abstraction: Adler & Sullivan12 September 2023
β Francesco Marullo
…on 27 and 28 April 2023. More about the symposium, and other films and written papers, can be found here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01cg9N1zTtA The Selz Schwab & Company Shoe Factory, built in Chicago…
symposium april 2023 (series) DMC industry & infrastructure construction drawing