The Wessex Project: Thomas Hardy, Architect: Part I
12 December 2022
The Wessex Project: Thomas Hardy, Architect: Part I12 December 2022
…coloured brick look like a textbook exercise in formal style. Detail of the section of Hardy’s unbuilt church design. Courtesy Dorset Museum/Thomas Hardy archive at the Dorset History Centre. But…
Architecture in Archives: The Collection of the Akademie der Künste (2016) – Review
10 February 2023
Architecture in Archives: The Collection of the Akademie der Künste (2016) – Review10 February 2023
Archives, particularly architecture archives, are having a moment. Writers of postcolonial histories increasingly wrangle with their neatly preserved and selected records. Predominantly, documentary evidence under archival care formed the basis…
Learning From Machine Learning, on designer trees and architectural historiographies of the digital
11 July 2023
Learning From Machine Learning, on designer trees and architectural historiographies of the digital11 July 2023
…themselves increasingly subject to the growing dominion of digital research protocols, accelerated by the many digitization projects that developed in response to COVID-related limitations on physical access to archives and…
Writing Prize 2021: Itsuko Hasegawa, Capturing an Infinite Distance
4 November 2021
Writing Prize 2021: Itsuko Hasegawa, Capturing an Infinite Distance4 November 2021
Itsuko Hasegawa, Ensemble de 12 négatifs couleur (4 pour le projet Bizan, 6 pour le projet Yaizu 2 et 2 pour le Mix), 1985. Archives du Centre Pompidou. As published…
Lenin’s Tomb, the Second Version
5 September 2022
Lenin’s Tomb, the Second Version5 September 2022
– Niall Hobhouse and Markus Lähteenmäki
…‘IV-894’ seems the most interesting – it seems strangely familiar, could be a standard marking of the Museum of architecture photo archive or some other archive where I spent a…
Writing Prize 2020: The Anatomy of an Oyster Theatre
14 December 2020
Writing Prize 2020: The Anatomy of an Oyster Theatre14 December 2020
Luc Laporte (1942–2012), evolution of the core drawing, un théâtre comme une huître (‘A Theatre like an Oyster’), 1986. Archives Luc Laporte. In the beginning, there was only a shell. An…
Archives, or Ardor
26 October 2017
Archives, or Ardor26 October 2017
…gone unnoticed in Derrida’s account of the archives is that this originary notion of the archive was already the home and the house of the archon. This means that official…
The Routledge Companion to Architectural Drawings and Models (2021) – Review
24 November 2022
The Routledge Companion to Architectural Drawings and Models (2021) – Review24 November 2022
…their good reads. For me there are three or four that stand out. One favourite was the first chapter by Alba Di Lieto, ‘The Well-sited Archive: The Carlo Scarpa Archive…
Hugh Strange: the Archive
22 September 2017
Hugh Strange: the Archive22 September 2017
…proposal for extended archive storage, which began to acquire other possibilities. Lying empty at the base of a steep slope, the Barton continues the monolithic presence of the Archive and together…
Building as Drawing: the Cowshed (2021) at Shatwell Farm
7 July 2023
Building as Drawing: the Cowshed (2021) at Shatwell Farm7 July 2023
…the archive room in that it includes a series of built and unbuilt commissions made for a landscape that is cultural, both conceptually and physically. The cowshed in this setting…
Sant’Elia and Global Futurist Architecture
21 July 2023
Sant’Elia and Global Futurist Architecture21 July 2023
‘Found’ in the archive at Drawing Matter, this wild text by Marinetti on his friend and collaborator Sant’Elia seems not to have been previously translated. Its occasion was a commemorative…
MJ Long’s Doll House
31 March 2023
MJ Long’s Doll House31 March 2023
– Elena Palacios Carral
…looking. I was aware that MJ Long’s personal papers and work were being stored at the RIBA as part of the Colin St John Wilson & Partners archive, to which…
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