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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…
Shatwell Farm: Cars
19.02.2024
Shatwell Farm: Cars19.02.2024
…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….
What’s a Bludder Sketch?
28.02.2022
What’s a Bludder Sketch?28.02.2022
…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…
Working with Tony Fretton
04.01.2022
Working with Tony Fretton04.01.2022
…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…
The Rural Homes of Marcelo Ferraz and Francisco Fanucci
13.12.2021
The Rural Homes of Marcelo Ferraz and Francisco Fanucci13.12.2021
…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…
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
…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…
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…
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
…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…
Hans Poelzig: Der Golem
11.03.2021
Hans Poelzig: Der Golem11.03.2021
…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 is discovery (1953)
24.11.2020
Drawing is discovery (1953)24.11.2020
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,…
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…
The Matter of Drawing
03.08.2019
The Matter of Drawing03.08.2019
…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…
From a Little Below and to the Right
17.12.2019
From a Little Below and to the Right17.12.2019
…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…
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…
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…
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