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Showing 49–72 of 504 results for mIES van der rohe ✕

Materia 2: Corrugated Iron
14.07.2022

Materia 2: Corrugated Iron14.07.2022

– Gordon Shrigley

…component became, within early modernist architect’s hands (especially those who looked more to the Marxism of Hannes Meyer and Mart Stam than the phenomenological muteness of Ludwig Mies van der…

section housing industry & infrastructure materia (editorial series) DMC

Henry van de Velde and a Monument to Nietzsche
13.11.2019

Henry van de Velde and a Monument to Nietzsche13.11.2019

– Richard Hollis

Henry van de Velde (1863–1957), Nietzsche temple on a square ground plan, 1911–1912. Graphite on paper. Fonds Henry van de Velde, ENSAV La Cambre. Count Harry Kessler – the German…

elevation presentation memorial & monument sketch plan

Madelon Vriesendorp and Rem Koolhaas at Van Rooy Gallery, 1980
23.10.2018

Madelon Vriesendorp and Rem Koolhaas at Van Rooy Gallery, 198023.10.2018

– Editors

…1980, at the height of postmodernism, Luce van Rooy opened her gallery in Amsterdam, around the corner from the Stedelijk Museum. [1] In a recent interview van Rooy reflects on…

exhibition DMC sketch elevation projection (axonometric isometric) presentation

Marie–José Van Hee: Black Drawings
23.11.2016

Marie–José Van Hee: Black Drawings23.11.2016

…Marie-José Van Hee, Black Drawing: plan and perspective, 2007. © Marie-José Van Hee. Marie-José Van Hee, Design development drawing for Zuidzande House, Netherlands, 2007. © Marie-José Van Hee. Marie-José Van…

sketch plan section elevation domestic Extracts: Where to Begin?

DMJ – Template and Talisman
13.03.2024

DMJ – Template and Talisman13.03.2024

– Laura Harty

Original Zuni Amulet inlaid with jet and mother of pearl. Photograph by the author. From the Aldo van Eyck Archive. For a time, Aldo Van Eyck kept this little amulet…

DMJ 2 – Drawing Instruments/Instrumental Drawings drawing instruments

Peter Blake & Adolfo Natalini: From Mies to Mickey Mouse
25.03.2020

Peter Blake & Adolfo Natalini: From Mies to Mickey Mouse25.03.2020

– Peter Blake

…Mies’ 1922 design for a glass-curtain skyscraper for Berlin (see link at the bottom of this page), and situated just down the road from Mies’ own Lake Shore Drive Apartments.,…

DMC sketch commerce

Zaha Hadid
27.11.2018

Zaha Hadid27.11.2018

– Desley Luscombe

…in conversation with Tina di Carlo. Tina di Carlo in conversation with Luce Van Rooy. Tina di Carlo in conversation with Luce Van Rooy. The images included, ‘Axonometric in Context’,…

projection (axonometric isometric) Extracts: Women Writing Architecture exhibition design DMC presentation publication civic & municipal exhibition graphic design

Dom Hans Van Der Laan Saint Benedictusberg Abbey at Vaals
25.01.2018

Dom Hans Van Der Laan Saint Benedictusberg Abbey at Vaals25.01.2018

Dom Hans van der Laan (1904–1991), Cross section and interior view of church, St. Benedictusberg Abbey at Vaals, 1956. Pen and pencil on paper, 220 × 280 mm. The following…

sketch religion

Aldo van Eyck: Diruit, aedificat, mutat quadrata rotundis
14.02.2025

Aldo van Eyck: Diruit, aedificat, mutat quadrata rotundis14.02.2025

– Laura Harty

Aldo van Eyck (1918–1999), Ground floor plan, The Four Tower House, Baambrugge, 1958. Pencil and felt pen on tracing, 315 × 535 mm. DMC 3658.4. ‘He pulls down, he builds…

Soane and Modernism sketch plan domestic DMC

Marie-José Van Hee: Drawn Closer
02.01.2020

Marie-José Van Hee: Drawn Closer02.01.2020

– Marie-José Van Hee

Marie-José Van Hee (1950), House Van Hee, 1990–1993. Graphite on tracing paper. Courtesy the architect. Towards the end of my architectural studies in the late 1960s I moved into a…

sketch plan section elevation domestic drawn closer (series)

The Cornice: The Edge of Architecture
21.02.2022

The Cornice: The Edge of Architecture21.02.2022

– Maarten Delbeke

…von Wörtern kann zusammengesetzt werden, so entsteht aus der verschiedenen Zusammensetzung der Glieder eine große Mannigfaltigkeit der Gesimse, Füße und Kränze, wodurch sowohl die verschiedenen Ordnungen sich von einander unter-…

ornament publication concept & diagram

The Black Drawings of Marie-José Van Hee
09.11.2016

The Black Drawings of Marie-José Van Hee09.11.2016

– Helen Thomas

…Van Hee, Black Drawing for Zuidzande House, Netherlands, 2007. © Marie-José Van Hee. ‘When I begin to think about a project I am always drawing,’ says Flemish architect Marie-José Van…

sketch plan section concept & diagram domestic

Sigurd Lewerentz: Siting the Axonometric
17.11.2020

Sigurd Lewerentz: Siting the Axonometric17.11.2020

– Stan Allen

…into infinity,’ wrote El Lissitsky in his 1925 manifesto ‘K and Pangeometry’. Paintings and drawings by Theo van Doesburg and Cornelis van Eesteren, Herbert Bayer (and Lissitsky himself) are constructed on…

DMC projection (axonometric isometric)

Marie-José Van Hee: Seeing not Showing
22.03.2021

Marie-José Van Hee: Seeing not Showing22.03.2021

– Tessa Baird

Marie-José Van Hee (1950), House, c.1990. Graphite on tracing paper. © Marie-José Van Hee. ‘House’ by Marie-José Van Hee is drawn on a sheet of trace, the edge of which…

sketch drawing matter writing prize 2020

Pan Scroll Zoom 11: Architecten Jan De Vylder Inge Vinck
19.04.2021

Pan Scroll Zoom 11: Architecten Jan De Vylder Inge Vinck19.04.2021

– Fabrizio Gallanti, Inge Vinck and Jan De Vylder

…– a practice journey universum carrousel – whatever a studio – jan de vylder a practice – architecten jan de vylder inge vinck whatever – jan de vylder inge vinck…

Pan Scroll Zoom (series)

Besides, History (2018): Book Review
09.08.2021

Besides, History (2018): Book Review09.08.2021

– Stan Allen

…– David Van Severen The 2017 exhibition Besides, History at the Canadian Centre for Architecture juxtaposed works by architects Go Hasegawa and OFFICE/KGDVS (Kersten Geers and David van Severen) with drawings and…

plan section

Alternative Histories: Hans van der Heijden on Josef Hoffmann
14.02.2019

Alternative Histories: Hans van der Heijden on Josef Hoffmann14.02.2019

Hans van der Heijden Architect, Josef Hoffmann’s perspective sketch of a cottage, 2018. Medium-density fibreboard, 100 × 100 × 140 mm. Josef Hoffmann (1870–1956), perspective sketch, cottage, c.1900. Pencil on…

alternative histories (project) DMC

Alternative Histories: Bosshard, Tavor, van der Ploeg and Vihervaara on Bohdan Lachert
03.02.2019

Alternative Histories: Bosshard, Tavor, van der Ploeg and Vihervaara on Bohdan Lachert03.02.2019

…part becomes the whole, the building begins to conflate order and expression, billboard and duck, paper and architecture, post and office. – Matthew van der Ploeg, Li Tavor, Ani Vihervaara and…

alternative histories (project) DMC

Wolkenbügel: El Lissitzky as Architect
02.09.2024

Wolkenbügel: El Lissitzky as Architect02.09.2024

– Richard Anderson and Markus Lähteenmäki

…(1967), 48. Ausstellung der November-Gruppe in den Räumen der Berliner Secession, Archiv der Deutschen Kunst (Berlin: K. Ullrich, 1925). Advertisement for the Werkstatt für Bildnis- u. technische Photographie C. J….

presentation theoretical & imaginary urban form

Schmitz and Drévet: The Egyptian Pavilions at the 1867 ‘Exposition Universelle’
15.12.2023

Schmitz and Drévet: The Egyptian Pavilions at the 1867 ‘Exposition Universelle’15.12.2023

– Anja Segmüller

…glitter went, in the Champ-de-Mars, that they were leading the van rather than bringing up the rear of the march of Progress. […] The Egyptian Viceroy ventured on a bolder…

correspondence letters ephemera plan DMC section elevation exhibition design exhibition ephemeral architecture

Eurolandschaft Dérive
01.04.2018

Eurolandschaft Dérive01.04.2018

– Peter Wilson

…– A Dérive, 1998. Mixed media, 185 × 240 mm. DMC 2945.7. In the intervening years, it has fallen under and out of the spotlight of theoretical coolness/interest. Peter Wilson…

landscape DMC sketch survey theoretical & imaginary

Derrida & Eisenman: Laugh(ing) of(f) the lyre
22.03.2021

Derrida & Eisenman: Laugh(ing) of(f) the lyre22.03.2021

– André Patrão

…on paper, 28 × 22 mm. Peter Eisenman fonds Canadian Centre for Architecture © Estate of Jacques Derrida. ‘I think I understand, at least in principle.’ [1] Jacques Derrida tries…

correspondence letters ephemera drawing matter writing prize 2020

Mystery as Ground
21.03.2019

Mystery as Ground21.03.2019

– Andrew Clancy

…continued to drive architectural agendas for generations: we need only think of Louis Sullivan and Chicago and the legacy of modernism, or northern Italy in the Renaissance, in which architects…

DMC

Architecture and Real Abstraction: Adler & Sullivan
12.09.2023

Architecture and Real Abstraction: Adler & Sullivan12.09.2023

– Francesco Marullo

…between 1886 –1907, is not among the most impressive commercial projects of Adler & Sullivan. It was a cheap but experimental steel framing system on isolated footings, with an austere,…

industry & infrastructure construction drawing symposium april 2023 (series) DMC

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