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Showing 37–54 of 66 results for siza ✕

Drawing Exercises: Design Process
14.07.2023

Drawing Exercises: Design Process14.07.2023

– Matt Page and Fernando Poeiras

…the decisions you make and the redesigned building. Beginning with a programme Analyse Siza 3133 and identify the possible programme. Annotate a reproduction of the drawing, or redraw elements. How…

Movements of the Drawing Hand
08.12.2021

Movements of the Drawing Hand08.12.2021

– Paul Clarke

…film, Álvaro Siza’s hand reveals a sort of bee dance: an implicit knowledge encoded in gestures; of mark-making and hovering balances; a register of spontaneous action ahead of thought. Keith…

sketch student work

Shatwell Farm: Cars
19.02.2024

Shatwell Farm: Cars19.02.2024

– Emily Priest

…2021; 13. Columns by Álvaro Siza from 2017. Drawn by the author. Cars Shatwell Farm is accessed from Shatwell Lane which slips off from a busy A-road leading to Bruton….

Emily Priest (series) Buildings Projects at Shatwell Farm

What’s a Bludder Sketch?
28.02.2022

What’s a Bludder Sketch?28.02.2022

– Declan Quirke

…and is an imagined view of his office with the members of his studio drawing a masterplan for inner-city Södermalm in Stockholm. Like those famous sketches by Álvaro Siza, the…

sketch humour & satire urban form drawing matter writing prize 2021

Notes on the 2020 Summer School: Encounters in landscape
18.05.2021

Notes on the 2020 Summer School: Encounters in landscape18.05.2021

– Marwa El Mubark

Alvaro Siza’s columns in the yard at Shatwell Farm. Photo: Marwa El Mubark. The notion of the countryside as a space for radical transformation, a messy intersection of heterogeneity far…

architectural drawing summer school

Working with Tony Fretton
04.01.2022

Working with Tony Fretton04.01.2022

– Jonathan Sergison

…text was first published in Opening Lines III: Tony Fretton (2018). Copies of the publication, alongside the other titles in the series on Álvaro Siza, Superstudio, and Niall McLaughlin, are…

DMC competition culture

The Rural Homes of Marcelo Ferraz and Francisco Fanucci
13.12.2021

The Rural Homes of Marcelo Ferraz and Francisco Fanucci13.12.2021

– Abilio Guerra

…da Rocha, and Carlos Millan; the Portuguese Fernando Távora and Álvaro Siza; and Alvar Aalto, Sverre Fehn, Luis Barragán, Hassan Faty, Geoffrey Bawa, Le Corbusier, and Marcel Breuer. Two institutional…

elevation housing landscape sketch plan section

Between the Layers: Transparent Paper as a Modernist Architectural Design Environment
06.01.2022

Between the Layers: Transparent Paper as a Modernist Architectural Design Environment06.01.2022

– Fabio Colonnese

…the process reversible, and literally, to see an architectural project as a pile of overlapping interrelated layers. Álvaro Siza, site plan with perspectives, Quinta Malagueira, Portugal, c. 1977. Pencil on…

sketch plan DMC

Pan Scroll Zoom 17: Monadnock
01.09.2021

Pan Scroll Zoom 17: Monadnock01.09.2021

– Job Floris and Fabrizio Gallanti

…Siza and Oswald Mathias Ungers, for instance. We invite the students to understand their respective architectural languages, their specific architectural and formal strategies, by means of comparison. This process requires…

education Pan Scroll Zoom (series)

Diagrams: Hans van der Heijden in Conversation with Richard Hall
05.05.2021

Diagrams: Hans van der Heijden in Conversation with Richard Hall05.05.2021

– Richard Hall

…you to stay in control of the things that you make. As the opposite of that, no matter how much I admire Álvaro Siza, he once said that ‘good architects…

projection (axonometric isometric) concept & diagram housing

Hans Poelzig: Der Golem
11.03.2021

Hans Poelzig: Der Golem11.03.2021

– Robert Wightman

…archive. Many gravitated towards the sketches of Álvaro Siza, however, I scurried towards the sketch above, excitement building with every step. Its effortless yet purposeful charcoal marks, a crescendo piece,…

drawing matter writing prize 2020 DMC theatre ephemeral architecture

Drawing is discovery (1953)
24.11.2020

Drawing is discovery (1953)24.11.2020

– John Berger

Álvaro Siza, Page 61, Caderno 31, 1979. Pen on paper, 300 × 210 mm. DMC 2528.61. For the artist drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase,…

DMC art practice

S.A.U.L. 4th Year: De Rerum Natura / In the Manner Of
13.10.2020

S.A.U.L. 4th Year: De Rerum Natura / In the Manner Of13.10.2020

– Gerard Carty, Elizabeth Hatz and Fionn O'Leary

…in a state of change. Time is material in the archive, compressed, expanded. Drawings of Lebas, Barry, Labrouste, Giles Gilbert Scott, rub shoulders with Ponis, Pichler, Natalini/Superstudio, Fretton, Siza. Chloé…

DMC plan section survey Teaching (project)

Hybrid Studio
23.07.2020

Hybrid Studio23.07.2020

– Brian Carter

…suddenly isolated and remote from one another. Drawings by significant architects were frequently cited as references. Suggestions regarding specific drawings – by Le Corbusier, Diller Scofidio, Cedric Price, LTL, Siza,…

Teaching (project) sketch projection (axonometric isometric) transport social engagement

On Architectural Drawing: Lina Bo Bardi and Beyond
09.03.2017

On Architectural Drawing: Lina Bo Bardi and Beyond09.03.2017

– Marcelo Ferraz

…does not have a precise meaning in architecture. When the Portuguese architect Alvaro Siza says that ‘drawing is the pursuit of intelligence’, he is referring to drawing as design. The…

furniture & object design concept & diagram theoretical & imaginary DMC

The Matter of Drawing
03.08.2019

The Matter of Drawing03.08.2019

– Freddie Phillipson

…drawings without reproducing their forms? How do you not simply build Siza’s project to scale, knowing that the other elevations are out there, besides the inescapable fact of the building…

exhibition alternative histories (project)

From a Little Below and to the Right
17.12.2019

From a Little Below and to the Right17.12.2019

– Niall Hobhouse

…and blue crayon on tracing, 182 × 248 mm. DMC 3197.8r. The marginal sketches seem to play something of the same role for Lutyens as they do for Álvaro Siza…

sketch elevation domestic DMC

Léa Guillotin and Michael Becker
19.12.2024

Léa Guillotin and Michael Becker19.12.2024

…farm. Up from the weeds and nettles braided around Siza’s mustard columns and out across the full and gentle curves of fields fringed with hawthorn and hornbeam hedgerows. Courage. Our…

ENAC drawing research platform 2024

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