Syon House and the Afterlife of Architectural Drawing
22 April 2022
Syon House and the Afterlife of Architectural Drawing22 April 2022
His writing is not about something; it is that something itself. [1] Fig.01; Robert Adam, Section of the Great Hall at Syon House, 1761. © John Soane’s Museum. I knew…
Denise Scott Brown. In Other Eyes: Portraits of an Architect (2022) – Review
24 July 2023
Denise Scott Brown. In Other Eyes: Portraits of an Architect (2022) – Review24 July 2023
…beautifully curated book, the sensitive work of its editor Frida Grahn who, in her own research trying to assess the reception and impact of Robert Venturi and Scott Brown on…
Sir Edwin Lutyens, by his Son
4 July 2022
Sir Edwin Lutyens, by his Son4 July 2022
Sketch of the architect Edwin Lutyens bearing the inscription ‘Lutyens sweats port’, 1921, by an unidentified English draughtsman. RIBA Collections. We have republished below an extract from Robert Lutyens’ short…
Krier/Culot: Architecture, language and process (1977)
7 September 2022
Krier/Culot: Architecture, language and process (1977)7 September 2022
The essay by Robert Maxwell linked below was sent to Drawing Matter by Celia Scott earlier this year. It was first published in Architectural Design, March 1977, as part of…
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…
Dance Dance Revolution
30 December 2018
Dance Dance Revolution30 December 2018
…painter Hubert Robert. Both had worked on Bagatelle. Once known as ‘Robert des ruines’, the painter bided his time behind bars by painting on plates and selling them to English…
Cartographies of the Imagination
4 June 2021
Cartographies of the Imagination4 June 2021
– Kirsty Badenoch and Sayan Skandarajah
…the journeys they have embarked upon. Charles Robert Cockerell – Plan of the Parthenon, Athens & Zaha Hadid, Axonometry: The Ambulatory and its connections Charles Robert Cockerell, Plan of the…
Sweet Disorder and the Carefully Careless: Ideas, Faces and Places (2022) – review
31 October 2022
Sweet Disorder and the Carefully Careless: Ideas, Faces and Places (2022) – review31 October 2022
– Eric Parry and Robin Webster
…Scott. The opening of the exhibition and symposium about the architect Robert (Bob) Maxwell and the sculptor Celia Scott was held in the elegant home of the Irish Architectural Archive,…
The Garden of Earthly Delights
9 April 2020
The Garden of Earthly Delights9 April 2020
…of the fair, from April to October. Robert Mallet-Stevens came up with an ingenious, though not universally admired, solution to this difficult problem: together with the sculptors Jan and Joël…
Sheds: Palaces of Nothing
9 October 2016
Sheds: Palaces of Nothing9 October 2016
Sheds: Palaces of Nothing (Photo: Jamie Woodley) 9 – 16 October 2016, Hauser & Wirth Maltings Gallery, Somerset Curated by Robert Mull and Alexander Brodsky, with Markus Lähteenmäki, Nicholas Olsberg and…
Physical & Digital Drawing
19 April 2021
Physical & Digital Drawing19 April 2021
…Reuben Roberts, Final Drawing Sheet, 2019. AutoCAD 2018 for Mac. Authors own. Mario Carpo’s distinction between mechanical (physical) drawings and digital drawings is the role of the author, and how…
The Birds’ Morning Hymn (1929)
10 July 2020
The Birds’ Morning Hymn (1929)10 July 2020
– Robert Lorimer
…Sir Robert Lorimer (London: Country Life: 1931), 3–4. Robert Lorimer (1864–1929), panel design with honeysuckle, birds, fruit and flowers; possibly for a pelmet, c.1891. Pencil and coloured crayons on wove…
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