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Other Lives: Charles Eisen and Laugier’s Essai sur l’Architecture
26 December 2019
Other Lives: Charles Eisen and Laugier’s Essai sur l’Architecture26 December 2019
One of the best-known drawings related to the discipline is the ‘allegory of architecture’, drawn by Charles-Dominique-Joseph Eisen and engraved by Jean-Jacques Aliamet. [1] The original is now in the collection of…
Marie-José Van Hee: Drawn Closer
2 January 2020
Marie-José Van Hee: Drawn Closer2 January 2020
Marie-José Van Hee (1950), House Van Hee, 1990–1993. Graphite on tracing paper. Courtesy the architect. Towards the end of my architectural studies in the late 1960s I moved into a…
One Small Sketch for Mankind
13 January 2020
One Small Sketch for Mankind13 January 2020
…modern heroes who gave form to the American Dream. Raymond Loewy (1893–1986), in space suit at NASA, Huntsville, Alabama, U.S. Photograph. Hagley Digital Archives. And he played the game very…
Origins in Translation
20 January 2020
Origins in Translation20 January 2020
Broken bits of ancient architecture piled up in the foreground of a printed page is a topos in the canon of architectural publications. An early example takes place in the frontispiece of…
Basil Spence: Houses of Parliament
29 January 2020
Basil Spence: Houses of Parliament29 January 2020
Basil Spence (1907–1976), study sketch for the enlargement of the Houses of Parliament, London: elevation, 1969. Pencil on paper, 245 × 480 mm. DMC 1104r. Basil Spence (1907–1976), study sketch…
James Gowan Millbank: Sketches and Comments
9 December 2019
James Gowan Millbank: Sketches and Comments9 December 2019
James Gowan (1923–2015), The howling dog with heliport, 1977. Pen and coloured pencil on paper, Daler spiral-bound sketchbook, 148 × 210 mm. DMC 2658.19v-20r. The following text was first published…
Behind the Lines 14
3 February 2020
Behind the Lines 143 February 2020
These are just insignificant sketches, but they remind me of the Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques in 1937; by night it was a unique experience – mémorable. René-André Coulon (1908–1997), Projet…
La Casa Della Falsita
5 February 2020
La Casa Della Falsita5 February 2020
…issue of Casabella in 1976 featured the ‘Ruined Temple of Consumerism’ from my and Jeanne Sillett’s Dorset Project. This was our AA diploma thesis, now in the AA archives. After founding Archizoom…
Tony Fretton: Drawn Closer
6 February 2020
Tony Fretton: Drawn Closer6 February 2020
– Tony Fretton and Sarah Handelman
Tony Fretton (1945), Isometric of Lisson Gallery from front, 1984. Ink on trace, 595 × 840 mm. DMC 2885.9. Sometimes you make drawings to tell yourself the project is going…
Take One: Colin St John Wilson, MJ Long and Eric Parry on the British Library
7 February 2020
Take One: Colin St John Wilson, MJ Long and Eric Parry on the British Library7 February 2020
– Editors
Take One is a collaboration between Drawing Matter and the Architects’ Lives oral history project run by National Life Stories. Each episode pairs a drawing or visual element with a short audio extract,…
The Iconography of Desolation
17 February 2020
The Iconography of Desolation17 February 2020
Robert Smithson (1938–1973), My House is a Decayed House, 1962. Photo-collage, pen, ink, gouache and watercolour on paper, 610 × 455 mm. DMC 2975. ‘We now discover an iconoscope that…
A Dose of Dosio
24 December 2019
A Dose of Dosio24 December 2019
– Laura Harty
…filigree pliability associated with its youth. This capacity to hide and to reveal complicates its designation in many archives as a secondary, ephemeral and notorious unstable medium. And so to…
plan section survey civic & municipal religion DMC