Fernand Pouillon’s Survey of the Abbey of Le Thoronet
17 May 2021
Fernand Pouillon’s Survey of the Abbey of Le Thoronet17 May 2021
The following text by Oscar Mather is excerpted from Issue 6 of the Journal of Civic Architecture, edited by Patrick Lynch: https://www.canalsidepress.com/joca-issue-6/. Plan of the Abbey of Le Thoronet by…
The MARS Group’s Plan for London, 1933-1944
8 March 2021
The MARS Group’s Plan for London, 1933-19448 March 2021
…coloured drawings called a ‘Plan for London’ in his book Fine Building. Arthur Korn and Felix Samuely, ‘A Master Plan for London’, in The Architectural Review 91 (1942) The structure of the MARS…
Bovenbouw Architectuur: One Paper Model and Three Paper Collages
12 May 2021
Bovenbouw Architectuur: One Paper Model and Three Paper Collages12 May 2021
…complete with paper cars, paper traffic cones and paper glass recycling banks. Bovenbouw, Container Park, Anderlecht, 2016. Coloured cardstock, cardboard and foam core. Image courtesy of Bovenbouw Architectuur. At the…
Behind the Lines 5
10 May 2018
Behind the Lines 510 May 2018
Cassius Goldsmith, Front Elevation, Design for a Gate Lodge, c.1827. Pen, ink and watercolour on Whatman 1827 paper, 252 × 382 mm. DMC 2706.1. Boughton Monchelsea Maidstone September 26, 1828…
Notes on The Palace of the Assembly and Museum at Chandigarh
7 June 2021
Notes on The Palace of the Assembly and Museum at Chandigarh7 June 2021
…Philips Acoustical engineer. This reinforces my conviction that it is from Xenakis as beginning of August. Le Corbusier was pressuring Xenakis to send him the drawings of the ‘Bouchon’ (the ‘cork’), i.e. the precise…
The changing metropolis 1940s–1980s
29 November 2013
The changing metropolis 1940s–1980s29 November 2013
– Niall Hobhouse and Nicholas Olsberg
…Corbusier (1887–1965), Model fragment, Olivetti Centre, Milan, 1962. Tempera on cardboard, 113 × 89 × 51 mm. DMC 1440. In the city of Rho, adjacent to Milan, Olivetti planned a…
Order and Uncertainty in Architectural Drawing
26 April 2021
Order and Uncertainty in Architectural Drawing26 April 2021
…(Summer 1986), p.7. H. Rosenberg, ‘The American Action Painters’, Art News, (December 1952), p.23. P. Wilson, ‘La Casa Della Falsita’, Drawing Matter, accessed 10 June 2020, https://drawingmatter.org/la-casa-della-falsita/. Ibid. Ibid. Ibid….
Marie-José Van Hee: Drawn Closer
2 January 2020
Marie-José Van Hee: Drawn Closer2 January 2020
…excited by the project. He said, ‘Let’s go for it.’ And so I had a house – I even had four houses! At the time, three were occupied, which meant…
The House and the Sketch
25 January 2021
The House and the Sketch25 January 2021
…it sees nothing but possibilities. Each one is a house it had already known: long houses, stepped houses, curved houses, simple houses, complex houses. They existed all along, waiting to…
James Stirling, and the Industrialization of Architecture?
26 April 2024
James Stirling, and the Industrialization of Architecture?26 April 2024
…last edited 9 May 2023. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_the_productive_forces> [Accessed 20 April 2024]. Kieran Hawkins, Connor Street: Made by Many Hands – 3. Reclaim and Re-Use., online series, DM, 15 January 2023, <https://drawingmatter.org/connor-street-made-by-many-hands-p3/>…
The Work of Ernest and Esther Born: World’s Fair
5 January 2023
The Work of Ernest and Esther Born: World’s Fair5 January 2023
…both sides of the Pacific, from ‘pagoda yellow’, ‘Southern Cross blue’ and ‘Ming jade green’ on one side to ‘Death Valley mauve,’ ‘Pebble Beach coral’ and ‘Old Mission fawn’ on…
Working with Tony Fretton
4 January 2022
Working with Tony Fretton4 January 2022
– Jonathan Sergison
…Ink on trace, 297 × 420 mm. DMC 2888.8. Tony Fretton (1945), perspective sketch, Walsall Art Gallery, 1996. Ink on trace, 419 × 595 mm. DMC 2981.1. While working, Tony…
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