DMJ – Drawing Instruments from Sir John Soane’s Office
25 October 2023
DMJ – Drawing Instruments from Sir John Soane’s Office25 October 2023
…Court, Soho, London’. Alexander Wellington, who described himself on his bill-head as a ‘Mathematical Instrument Maker’, was someone whom Soane patronised on a regular basis, as can be seen from…
Comins x Shatwell Tea House
25 August 2023
Comins x Shatwell Tea House25 August 2023
– Various
…the co-founder and visionary of the Comins x Shatwell Tea House. ‘Bringing tea to Shatwell was something I instinctively wanted to do since meeting Michelle 2 years ago; but little…
R. Norman Shaw
11 March 2018
R. Norman Shaw11 March 2018
…in a new and broader direction, under the influence of G. F. Bodley and George Gilbert Scott, Jr. It is a well-documented building. By a stroke of luck, among the…
On Bramante (2022) – Review
22 August 2022
On Bramante (2022) – Review22 August 2022
– Oliver Lütjens and Thomas Padmanabhan
…that is in favour of a certain flatness of things. Donato Bramante, upper order, Cloister of Santa Maria della Pace, Rome, 1500–1504. © Bas Princen. Donato Bramante, lower order, Cloister…
68½ degrees, Sverre Fehn and the Nordic Pavilion: Review & Excerpt
26 May 2021
68½ degrees, Sverre Fehn and the Nordic Pavilion: Review & Excerpt26 May 2021
…year later, in the beginning of 1959, they discussed whether Chiodo could perhaps be granted an order, such as the Vasa Order or one from the Swedish Academy. [12] In…
Alternative Histories: Nikolaus Bienefeld on James Gowan
30 July 2019
Alternative Histories: Nikolaus Bienefeld on James Gowan30 July 2019
…wie die Skizze durch die Art des Striches, der Farbigkeit, der Detaillierung eine oder viele Interpretationen ermöglicht, so eröffnet die Wahl und der Umgang mit dem Material des Modells eine größtmögliche…
Future Scenarios, Part II
31 May 2016
Future Scenarios, Part II31 May 2016
– Niall Hobhouse and Nicholas Olsberg
…know who turn from the old world under Reiss’s rainbow’s arc toward a resplendent vision of the new, any dream of a radical new urban order — even those of…
Jesús Vassallo’s Epics in the Everyday (2019): Review & Excerpt
14 June 2021
Jesús Vassallo’s Epics in the Everyday (2019): Review & Excerpt14 June 2021
…regarding photography’s relationship to reality. The initial social documentary project of the 1930s, in which Evans partially participated, relied on the perception of photography as trans-parent in order to channel…
Viollet-le-Duc: Mont Blanc
17 February 2017
Viollet-le-Duc: Mont Blanc17 February 2017
…the highly pictorial form transformed, under Viollet-le-Duc’s wilful scrutiny, into a perfectly regulated crystalline system. In looking at these complex forms, we are taught to recognise a systematic, underlying order…
François-Joseph Bélanger
4 June 2016
François-Joseph Bélanger4 June 2016
François-Joseph Bélanger (1744–1818), Design for a Wall Elevation at the Hôtel Dervieux, c.1789. Pen, black and red ink over graphite with coloured washes and gouache on paper, 306 × 285…
William Butterfield
6 December 2017
William Butterfield6 December 2017
…through which a project could be comprehended, as instructions from which his contractors and clients could not swerve, and as precise statements of specification on which the builder’s tender could…
Halsey Ricardo
22 June 2019
Halsey Ricardo22 June 2019
– Nicholas Olsberg
…his talk by noting the richness of the travel notebooks, which ‘show what an immense deal of work an architect undertook in the way of record and analysis, in order…
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