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Buckminster Fuller: Geodesic Chandelier
19 February 2020
Buckminster Fuller: Geodesic Chandelier19 February 2020
Richard Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983), geodesic chandelier, c.1962. Perpspex prisms wired together with steel fishing line, served with crimps and electrical terminals. DMC 1021. From the Drawing Matter Paper Files….
Ronchamp: ‘Rough to the Touch’
28 February 2020
Ronchamp: ‘Rough to the Touch’28 February 2020
Le Corbusier (1887–1965), model of south wall, Chapel de Notre-Dame-du-Haut, Ronchamp, c.1950–1951. Plaster, 127 × 216 × 38 mm. DMC 1439. The architect turned artist takes possession of the building…
Francesco Milizia on Maderno, Posi and Jonson
7 November 2019
Francesco Milizia on Maderno, Posi and Jonson7 November 2019
The first edition of Francesco Milizia’s Le vite de’ più celebri architetti d’ogni nazione e d’ogni tempo, known in English as The Lives of the Celebrated Architects, Ancient and Modern, was published…
Colin Rowe: Piazza Augusto Imperatore (1995)
5 March 2020
Colin Rowe: Piazza Augusto Imperatore (1995)5 March 2020
Colin Rowe (1920–1999), Aerial view, Piazza Augusto Imperatore, 1987. Rome shall become such as to amaze the peoples of the world: vast, well ordered, powerful as in the days of…
Zaha and Aldo Self reflections
23 March 2019
Zaha and Aldo Self reflections23 March 2019
Zaha Hadid (1950–2016), Zaha Hadid Self-Portrait as Kurfurstendamm ‘To Mike’. Pen on paper. DMC 3075.15. Aldo Rossi (1931–1997), Self-portrait in front of the Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, ‘To Maurizio Diton’, 1992. Felt…
Dance Dance Revolution
30 December 2018
Dance Dance Revolution30 December 2018
François-Joseph Bélanger (1744–1818), Interior elevation for Maison Dervieux, The central panel depicts a grotesque design with the reoccurring winged-female figure holding a wreath in each hand. Beneath her are two…
Behind the Lines 9
2 February 2019
Behind the Lines 92 February 2019
William Beddoe Rees (1877–1931), Selsey-on-Sea Ltd – Architects Suggested Plan of Development, 1907. Colour lithograph, 407 × 762 mm. DMC 3008. Cyril Ponsonby walked anxiously from where he was staying…
Zaha Hadid: Azabu-Juban
16 February 2019
Zaha Hadid: Azabu-Juban16 February 2019
Zaha Hadid (1950–2016), doodle sketch, Azabu-Juban, 1986. Ink on paper from Hotel Copacabana Palace, Brasil, 150 × 105 mm. DMC 3077.1. Zaha Hadid’s sketches during mid-1980s for projects often unknown…
Roosevelt Island
17 February 2019
Roosevelt Island17 February 2019
OMA, Rem Koolhaas (1944), Elia Zenghelis (1937) and Zoe Zenghelis (1937), axonometric, Roosevelt Island, 1975. Pencil and gouache on board, 840 × 1030 mm. DMC 3070. The Roosevelt Island competition…
Boompjes I
22 February 2019
Boompjes I22 February 2019
OMA (1975), triptych, Boompjes Tower Slab, 1982. Colour silkscreen print, 716 × 1216 mm. Silkscreener: Bernard Ruygrok. In the 1980s, the city of Rotterdam asked OMA to study its high-rise building…
Gowan and Stirling
1 March 2019
Gowan and Stirling1 March 2019
James Gowan (1923–2015), Analysis drawing with University of Leicester, Engineering Building (upper right). Pencil and green crayon on wove paper, 473 × 260 mm. This odd-shaped, yellowed analysis drawing by…
Aldo & Adolf
13 December 2019
Aldo & Adolf13 December 2019
– Aldo Rossi
Aldo Rossi (1931–1997), Urban Scene: Scena Per il Teatrino, 1978. Magic marker and paint on board, 730 × 1073 mm. DMC 2286. © Eredi Aldo Rossi. And architecture itself? Architecture…
record DMC projection (axonometric isometric) presentation civic & municipal