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Showing 49–72 of 528 results for mIES van der rohe ✕

Sugimoto and Architecture
29.04.2024

Sugimoto and Architecture29.04.2024

– Hiroshi Sugimoto

…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…

art practice DMC

OMA: Big Competitions—Reorienting the Modern Project
29.08.2024

OMA: Big Competitions—Reorienting the Modern Project29.08.2024

– Richard Hall

…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

– Ray Lucas

…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…

projection (axonometric isometric)

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

– Caroline Voet

…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…

religion public space nature

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,…

plan presentation DMC

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…

DMC section housing industry & infrastructure materia (editorial series)

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…

Buildings Projects at Shatwell Farm

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…

DMC sketch projection (axonometric isometric) publication concept & diagram domestic exhibition

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

– Hugh Strange

…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

– Nicholas Ray

…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…

plan section projection (axonometric isometric) presentation theoretical & imaginary

Henry van de Velde and a Monument to Nietzsche
13.11.2019

Henry van de Velde and a Monument to Nietzsche13.11.2019

– Richard Hollis

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…

sketch plan elevation presentation memorial & monument

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…

DMC sketch elevation projection (axonometric isometric) presentation exhibition

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…

sketch plan section elevation domestic Extracts: Where to Begin?

DMJ – Template and Talisman
13.03.2024

DMJ – Template and Talisman13.03.2024

– Laura Harty

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…

DMJ 2 – Drawing Instruments/Instrumental Drawings drawing instruments

Peter Blake & Adolfo Natalini: From Mies to Mickey Mouse
25.03.2020

Peter Blake & Adolfo Natalini: From Mies to Mickey Mouse25.03.2020

– Peter Blake

…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.,…

sketch commerce DMC

Zaha Hadid
27.11.2018

Zaha Hadid27.11.2018

– Desley Luscombe

…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’,…

presentation publication civic & municipal exhibition graphic design projection (axonometric isometric) Extracts: Women Writing Architecture exhibition design DMC

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…

sketch religion

The Cornice: The Edge of Architecture
21.02.2022

The Cornice: The Edge of Architecture21.02.2022

– Maarten Delbeke

…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-…

concept & diagram ornament publication

DMJ – Death Masks
06.03.2026

DMJ – Death Masks06.03.2026

– Kieran Cremin

…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…

sketch DMJ 3 – Storytelling

Aldo van Eyck: Diruit, aedificat, mutat quadrata rotundis
14.02.2025

Aldo van Eyck: Diruit, aedificat, mutat quadrata rotundis14.02.2025

– Laura Harty

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…

plan domestic DMC Soane and Modernism sketch

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…

Pan Scroll Zoom (series)

The Black Drawings of Marie-José Van Hee
09.11.2016

The Black Drawings of Marie-José Van Hee09.11.2016

– Helen Thomas

…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…

plan section concept & diagram domestic sketch

Marie-José Van Hee: Drawn Closer
02.01.2020

Marie-José Van Hee: Drawn Closer02.01.2020

– Marie-José Van Hee

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…

plan section elevation domestic drawn closer (series) sketch

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