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937 architects.
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Sugimoto and Architecture
29.04.2024
Sugimoto and Architecture29.04.2024
…and being hard to live in was the definition of livability… In the short peace that prevailed after the First World War, brilliant minds like Le Corbusier, Gropius, Mies van…
OMA: Big Competitions—Reorienting the Modern Project
29.08.2024
OMA: Big Competitions—Reorienting the Modern Project29.08.2024
…a Mies van der Rohe and an Oscar Niemeyer project. In between, there was my drawing and Rem’s comment, ‘altruist machine’, that he did as a beautiful dedication for me….
Drawing Parallels: John Hejduk’s Wall House 1
06.12.2021
Drawing Parallels: John Hejduk’s Wall House 106.12.2021
…explication of the Diamond Houses (the series of carefully calibrated and measured formal transformations, executed between 1963 and 1967, that owe much to Piet Mondrian, Le Corbusier, and Mies van…
Sigurd Lewerentz: Architect of Death and Life (2021): Review and Excerpts
15.11.2021
Sigurd Lewerentz: Architect of Death and Life (2021): Review and Excerpts15.11.2021
…Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe. But while these pioneering architects sought to engage internationally within an architectural dialogue, and thus influencing the architectural culture of their time, Lewerentz…
In the Archive: Riefenstahl, Hitler, Ebhardt, Sironi, Brasini
04.11.2024
In the Archive: Riefenstahl, Hitler, Ebhardt, Sironi, Brasini04.11.2024
– Editors
…room at the 1935 Brussels World’s Fair. The National Socialist government invited six architects, including Mies van der Rohe to design the German Pavilion. The brief included some specific instructions,…
Clancy Moore Architects: Atcost
20.09.2021
Clancy Moore Architects: Atcost20.09.2021
– Andrew Clancy and Colm Moore
…Photo: Sue Barr The Atcost Building has been nominated for the 2022 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award. This text is part of an ongoing series…
Haus-Rücker-Co.
09.10.2015
Haus-Rücker-Co.09.10.2015
– Editors
…projects during this period involved interventions in which a house or building would be ‘stolen’ and adapted to radical new uses. The proposed occupation of Mies van der Rohe’s Haus…
Sam Jacob: On Collage – Talk, Workshop & Exhibition, 6–8 February 2026
22.12.2025
Sam Jacob: On Collage – Talk, Workshop & Exhibition, 6–8 February 202622.12.2025
…Peter Smithson, Walter Pichler, Haus Rücker, Mies van der Rohe, Robert Smithson, OMA, and Eva Jiřičná. Drawing Matter’s public programme offers the public opportunities to experience our drawings collection, which…
The Manufacture of Architecture: Joseph Paxton and the Development of the Great Stove
09.11.2023
The Manufacture of Architecture: Joseph Paxton and the Development of the Great Stove09.11.2023
…Drawing Matter, completed in 2014. The building was nominated for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture—Mies van der Rohe Award 2015. In parallel with his practice, Hugh is currently…
Het woonpalazzo – The Residential Palazzo
16.02.2026
Het woonpalazzo – The Residential Palazzo16.02.2026
…van der Heijden’s Het woonpalazzo – The Residential Palazzo: In Design Research, Education and Practice (Amsterdam: HvdHA, 2025), 84-85. In the 1956 monastic Fraterhuis, by Jan van der Laan, with…
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…
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-…
DMJ – Death Masks
06.03.2026
DMJ – Death Masks06.03.2026
…Sketchbook Taphonomies: Glanton / McGill, 2021. Kieran Cremin, Sketchbook Taphonomies: Toadvine / the Vandiemenlander, 2021. Kieran Cremin, Sketchbook Taphonomies: White Jackson / Black Jackson, 2021. Kieran Cremin, Sketchbook Taphonomies: the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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