Remembering Architecture
18 October 2023
Remembering Architecture18 October 2023
…of past decisions: even if a Mies van der Rohe chair was selected for comfort or aesthetics, it also represents a particular brand of connoisseurship. Photography adds further layers and…
James Stirling, and the Industrialization of Architecture?
26 April 2024
James Stirling, and the Industrialization of Architecture?26 April 2024
…integrated into the industrialization of architecture. Robin Evans, Mies: The Horizon, online article, DM, 14 June 2020, <https://drawingmatter.org/mies-the-horizon/> [Accessed 23 March 2024]. Landry Smith, Mies van der Rohe and the…
David K. Ross: Archetypes (2021) – Review and Excerpt
11 January 2022
David K. Ross: Archetypes (2021) – Review and Excerpt11 January 2022
…uses as a point of departure for her poetic contribution to this publication, was most literally realized in Mies van der Rohe’s life-size model for the Kroller-Muller House (1912–13) in…
ETH Zurich: Casting the Cornice in Ticino
8 January 2020
ETH Zurich: Casting the Cornice in Ticino8 January 2020
– Emma Letizia Jones and Erik Wegerhoff
…in Aquila, drawings picked by students from the Drawing Matter archive featuring cornices from Antonio da Sangallo, Henri Labrouste, Hans Poelzig, Mies van der Rohe, Michael Graves and many others,…
Helmut Jacoby: The Amon Carter Museum
22 March 2024
Helmut Jacoby: The Amon Carter Museum22 March 2024
…Modernism with Mies van der Rohe at the Seagram Building (1954 –1958), and concluding with the Post Modernist fantasy of the Lipstick Building (where Bernie Madoff had his offices) and…
Architectural Drawing (1983)
22 June 2021
Architectural Drawing (1983)22 June 2021
…‘unbuilts’, of course, because the mechanics of carrying them out over time eradicate much of their flair. Sometimes, as with Mies Van der Rohe’s glass skyscrapers, the higher technology of…
Sugimoto and Architecture: A Conversation between David Chipperfield and Ralph Rugoff
29 April 2024
Sugimoto and Architecture: A Conversation between David Chipperfield and Ralph Rugoff29 April 2024
– David Chipperfield and Ralph Rugoff
…(World Trade Center) and Mies van der Rohe (Seagram Building)—as an attempt on his part to conjure the initial inspiration as it first emerged in the mind of the architect….
Growing up Modern: Childhoods in Iconic Homes (2021) – Review
13 June 2022
Growing up Modern: Childhoods in Iconic Homes (2021) – Review13 June 2022
…the Tugendhat house in Brno designed by Mies van der Rohe, as described by Ernst Tugendhat, who lived there for the first eight years of his life, is shot through…
Sugimoto and Architecture
29 April 2024
Sugimoto and Architecture29 April 2024
…and being hard to live in was the definition of livability… In the short peace that prevailed after the First World War, brilliant minds like Le Corbusier, Gropius, Mies van…
Drawing Parallels: John Hejduk’s Wall House 1
6 December 2021
Drawing Parallels: John Hejduk’s Wall House 16 December 2021
…explication of the Diamond Houses (the series of carefully calibrated and measured formal transformations, executed between 1963 and 1967, that owe much to Piet Mondrian, Le Corbusier, and Mies van…
OMA: Big Competitions—Reorienting the Modern Project
29 August 2024
OMA: Big Competitions—Reorienting the Modern Project29 August 2024
…a Mies van der Rohe and an Oscar Niemeyer project. In between, there was my drawing and Rem’s comment, ‘altruist machine’, that he did as a beautiful dedication for me….
Álvaro Siza: The Adoration of the magi
19 January 2022
Álvaro Siza: The Adoration of the magi19 January 2022
– António Choupina
…p. 30). An entirely new second phase won the inaugural Mies van der Rohe Award (1988) by tectonically fracturing the stairs in interior and exterior segments, waving down to the…
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