Drawings in Conversation
1 September 2017
Drawings in Conversation1 September 2017
Charles Robert Cockerell (1788–1863), view of courtyard, Competition entry for the Royal Exchange, 1838. Lithograph, 293 × 420 mm. Courtesy London Metropolitan Archives. C. R. Cockerell, Joseph Gwilt and the…
DMJ – Asphalt Tales and the Ends of History
3 March 2023
DMJ – Asphalt Tales and the Ends of History3 March 2023
Robert Smithson, Asphalt Rundown, Cava dei Selce, Rome, Italy, 1969. Asphalt, earth, sculptural event. © Holt/Smithson Foundation ARS, NY and DACS, London 2023. This paper explores how asphalt became a…
Gordon Matta-Clark
19 January 2017
Gordon Matta-Clark19 January 2017
…the son of the charismatic Chilean Roberto Matta, an architect who, after a stint with Le Corbusier, turned to painting, and became a central figure in the Surrealist movement. His…
Poetry and Architecture (2023) — Review
11 August 2023
Poetry and Architecture (2023) — Review11 August 2023
…Niall McLaughlin Architects, model of the International Rugby Experience building, Limerick. Behind Robert Montgomery, ALL PALACES ARE TEMPORARY PALACES. Photo by Fabio Barry. Poetry and Architecture exhibition, Hay Castle, Hay-on-Wye,…
Abelardo Morell
6 April 2023
Abelardo Morell6 April 2023
…Robert Adams’s book on the meaningfulness of art, he shows how Morell’s photograph of the inside of an attic, with the sea reflected in, emotionally correlates to descriptions of the…
Behind the Lines 12
23 September 2019
Behind the Lines 1223 September 2019
…window openings for the stained-glass artist, and the other his ceiling plan. Hills shows it to Robert Bayne, he is hoping that as the firm undertake murals as well as…
Mies van der Rohe and the Universal Space Project
30 August 2022
Mies van der Rohe and the Universal Space Project30 August 2022
…Fox River property over the years (which Mies planned for, but obviously underestimated), for Robert Silman Associates’ semi-recent proposed in-situ hydraulic solution to preserve the house, and for the Neue…
Materia 2: Corrugated Iron
14 July 2022
Materia 2: Corrugated Iron14 July 2022
…monstrous legacy, that both seduces and repels in equal measure by folding the horizon of architecture within itself, into one easily transportable moduli. In 1829, Henry Robertson Palmer, then engineer…
La Casa Della Falsita
5 February 2020
La Casa Della Falsita5 February 2020
…and Robert Haussmann from Zurich; Robert Maria Stieg from Vienna; and Bruno Minardi, who hailed from the Rossi school in Venice but had the habit of hanging out with the…
Displaced persons
3 October 2012
Displaced persons3 October 2012
– Niall Hobhouse and Nicholas Olsberg
…darkly medieval, slightly melancholy temper that infects a drawing by Robert Smirke for the battlements of the Tower of London, done about 1819 and apparently allied to his work on…
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