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Henry van de Velde and a Monument to Nietzsche
13.11.2019
Henry van de Velde and a Monument to Nietzsche13.11.2019
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…
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…
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…
DMJ – Template and Talisman
13.03.2024
DMJ – Template and Talisman13.03.2024
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…
Peter Blake & Adolfo Natalini: From Mies to Mickey Mouse
25.03.2020
Peter Blake & Adolfo Natalini: From Mies to Mickey Mouse25.03.2020
…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.,…
Zaha Hadid
27.11.2018
Zaha Hadid27.11.2018
…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’,…
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…
Aldo van Eyck: Diruit, aedificat, mutat quadrata rotundis
14.02.2025
Aldo van Eyck: Diruit, aedificat, mutat quadrata rotundis14.02.2025
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…
Marie-José Van Hee: Drawn Closer
02.01.2020
Marie-José Van Hee: Drawn Closer02.01.2020
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…
The Cornice: The Edge of Architecture
21.02.2022
The Cornice: The Edge of Architecture21.02.2022
…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-…
The Black Drawings of Marie-José Van Hee
09.11.2016
The Black Drawings of Marie-José Van Hee09.11.2016
…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…
Sigurd Lewerentz: Siting the Axonometric
17.11.2020
Sigurd Lewerentz: Siting the Axonometric17.11.2020
…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…
Marie-José Van Hee: Seeing not Showing
22.03.2021
Marie-José Van Hee: Seeing not Showing22.03.2021
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…
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…
Besides, History (2018): Book Review
09.08.2021
Besides, History (2018): Book Review09.08.2021
…– 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…
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: 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…
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….
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
…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…
Eurolandschaft Dérive
01.04.2018
Eurolandschaft Dérive01.04.2018
…– 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…
Derrida & Eisenman: Laugh(ing) of(f) the lyre
22.03.2021
Derrida & Eisenman: Laugh(ing) of(f) the lyre22.03.2021
…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…
Architecture and Real Abstraction: Adler & Sullivan
12.09.2023
Architecture and Real Abstraction: Adler & Sullivan12.09.2023
…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,…
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…
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