Cartographies of the Imagination
4 June 2021
Cartographies of the Imagination4 June 2021
– Kirsty Badenoch and Sayan Skandarajah
…the journeys they have embarked upon. Charles Robert Cockerell – Plan of the Parthenon, Athens & Zaha Hadid, Axonometry: The Ambulatory and its connections Charles Robert Cockerell, Plan of the…
Manufacturers Trust Bank
9 July 2024
Manufacturers Trust Bank9 July 2024
…drawings—one by Godwin, Thompson, and Patterson and three by Ely Jacques Kahn and Robert Allan Jacobs—look like they belong to a different era of bank building, when brick and mortar…
Sweet Disorder and the Carefully Careless: Ideas, Faces and Places (2022) – review
31 October 2022
Sweet Disorder and the Carefully Careless: Ideas, Faces and Places (2022) – review31 October 2022
– Eric Parry and Robin Webster
…Scott. The opening of the exhibition and symposium about the architect Robert (Bob) Maxwell and the sculptor Celia Scott was held in the elegant home of the Irish Architectural Archive,…
John Hejduk’s Bye House: An Object in the Landscape
29 June 2023
John Hejduk’s Bye House: An Object in the Landscape29 June 2023
– Stan Allen and Marina Correia
…is an abstract architecture in dialogue with painting—a ‘still-life architecture,’ to use Robert Slutzky’s term. The free-standing wall marks out a virtual picture plane against which the push/pull of sculptural…
Learning from the tortoise
9 August 2019
Learning from the tortoise9 August 2019
…1978. Ink on paper. Then, in the 1960s, Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown based an entire theory of architecture on a large white duck building, constructed on Long Island…
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…
The Garden of Earthly Delights
9 April 2020
The Garden of Earthly Delights9 April 2020
…of the fair, from April to October. Robert Mallet-Stevens came up with an ingenious, though not universally admired, solution to this difficult problem: together with the sculptors Jan and Joël…
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…
Physical & Digital Drawing
19 April 2021
Physical & Digital Drawing19 April 2021
…Reuben Roberts, Final Drawing Sheet, 2019. AutoCAD 2018 for Mac. Authors own. Mario Carpo’s distinction between mechanical (physical) drawings and digital drawings is the role of the author, and how…
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…
Dance Dance Revolution
30 December 2018
Dance Dance Revolution30 December 2018
– Iris Moon
…painter Hubert Robert. Both had worked on Bagatelle. Once known as ‘Robert des ruines’, the painter bided his time behind bars by painting on plates and selling them to English…
elevation presentation domestic theatre DMC