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O.M. Ungers: Drawing a metaphor
17.05.2024
O.M. Ungers: Drawing a metaphor17.05.2024
– Diogo Lopes and Fanny Noël
…and Oswald Matthias Ungers, The City in the City. Berlin: A Green Archipelago, ed. by Florian Hertweck and Sébastien Maron (Baden, Switzerland: Lars Müller, 2013). Fanny Noël and Diogo Lopes…
The Urban Fact: Aldo Rossi, The School, Fagnano Olona
16.11.2021
The Urban Fact: Aldo Rossi, The School, Fagnano Olona16.11.2021
– Kersten Geers, Stefano Graziani and Jelena Pancevac
…facades are pierced by large four-pane square openings, where each pane is a separate window with sides measuring 1m, placed between concrete mullions. This detail is explicit in the entrance…
The Project of Independence: Architectures of Decolonization in South Asia, 1947-1985 (2022) – Review
10.11.2022
The Project of Independence: Architectures of Decolonization in South Asia, 1947-1985 (2022) – Review10.11.2022
…Architectural Theory, and the Resident Director of Institute for Comparative Modernities at Cornell University. Notes Thordis Arrhenius, Mari Lending, Wallis Miller, J.Michael McGowan (eds.) Exhibiting Architecture (Lars Muller Publishers, 2014)…
DMJ – Template and Talisman
13.03.2024
DMJ – Template and Talisman13.03.2024
…2005 the pavilion was rebuilt in the grounds of the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo. There a second version of the seat can now be seen, centred on an opening, offering…
Materia 3: Red Oxide
30.09.2022
Materia 3: Red Oxide30.09.2022
…parody both German naturism and the cartoon monumentality of Paul Troost and Ernst Sagebiel. James Stirling, Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, 1984. Photograph: W. H. Muller, undated. Collection of the author. These two…
William Heath Robinson ‘Tightening the Green Belt’
26.11.2020
William Heath Robinson ‘Tightening the Green Belt’26.11.2020
…and the virgin turf. Heath Robinson draws quirks, not quoins, manners, not mullions. Faithful draughtsmanship is not the aim. ‘ROUGH SKETCH’ the cartoonist has written in the bottom-right corner. The joke’s…
Hélène Binet: The Intimacy of Making, Three Historical Sites in Korea (2021): Review
25.10.2021
Hélène Binet: The Intimacy of Making, Three Historical Sites in Korea (2021): Review25.10.2021
…of Making, Three Historical Sites in Korea (2021) by Hélène Binet is published by Lars Müller Publishers. Copies of the publication can be purchased here. Helen Thomas is Reviews Editor…
Ian Hamilton Finlay at Drawing Matter
06.01.2025
Ian Hamilton Finlay at Drawing Matter06.01.2025
…include works at Max Planck Institut, Stuttgart; Stockwood Park, Luton; Schweizergarten, Vienna; the Kröller-Müller Museum, Netherlands; St George’s Churchyard, Bristol; the Serpentine Gallery; and several universities. The collection of Finlay’s…
Gallaratese & Fagnano Olona (1976)
26.05.2020
Gallaratese & Fagnano Olona (1976)26.05.2020
…the walls of the courtyard will have the same large cross-mullioned windows that characterise the external facade. Aldo Rossi (1931–1997), composition with Modena Cemetery, 1979. Sepia ink and gouache on…
Shape
28.04.2020
Shape28.04.2020
…less likely to stir up concerns about the energy crisis than to recall a carefree childhood summer. And several patterns of mullions which may divide the same window opening might…
Geoffrey Bawa: Drawing from the Archives (2023) — Review
08.03.2024
Geoffrey Bawa: Drawing from the Archives (2023) — Review08.03.2024
…History at University College Dublin. Shayari de Silva, ed., Geoffrey Bawa: Drawing from the Archives (2023) is published by Lars Müller Publishers. Copies of the book can be purchased here. …
David K. Ross: Archetypes (2021) – Review and Excerpt
11.01.2022
David K. Ross: Archetypes (2021) – Review and Excerpt11.01.2022
…uses as a point of departure for her poetic contribution to this publication, was most literally realized in Mies van der Rohe’s life-size model for the Kroller-Muller House (1912–13) in…
Stan Allen
14.09.2021
Stan Allen14.09.2021
…New Terrain was published by Lars Müller in 2011, and his most recent book is Situated Objects, published by Park Books in 2020. Stan Allen’s Writer page on Drawing Matter…
Alternative Histories: Christ & Gantenbein on Louis Kahn
16.02.2019
Alternative Histories: Christ & Gantenbein on Louis Kahn16.02.2019
…of the poché. The coal-coloured stains lend the drawing the quality of a painting. Their roughness contrasts with the minuscule dots suggesting the mullions of the facade. It’s a sketch on…
Heinz Isler Model
02.11.2022
Heinz Isler Model02.11.2022
– John Chilton and Paul Shepherd
…1964. The associated drawing on the website suggests this and looks like an early sketch, as it’s dated 14 July 1962. Isler installed vertical prestress (hidden by glazing mullions) at…
ETH Zurich: Casting the Cornice in Ticino
08.01.2020
ETH Zurich: Casting the Cornice in Ticino08.01.2020
– Emma Letizia Jones and Erik Wegerhoff
…Alberto Felici (SUPSI), with Carina Kirsch (Kunstgiesserei St. Gallen) Students: Lorena Bassi, Gabriel Eggenschwyler, Ella Esslinger, Guy Keller, Mirjam Kupferschmid, Thorben Müller, Guillaume Pause, Patricia Pervan, Jonas Schüpbach, Moritz Schmidt,…
biq: Revealing Construction
26.05.2021
biq: Revealing Construction26.05.2021
…lend the house an almost abstract appearance. The ‘Standard Type’ forming a street. Lakerlopen, Eindhoven. Photo: © Stefan Müller. Source: www.biqarchitecten.nl/lakerlopen. The pitched roof and brickwork have a tactile, familiar…
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
…Published in ETHZ / Studio Jan De Vylder ed., ‘Roger Boltshauser select, Otto Müller, Trudi Demut, Hans Josephsohn’, Carrousel Confessions Confusion 2, (Koenig Books, 2019). JDV: In that sense, the…
Abelardo Morell
06.04.2023
Abelardo Morell06.04.2023
…Robert Adams’s book on the meaningfulness of art, he shows how Morell’s photograph of the inside of an attic, with the sea reflected in, emotionally correlates to descriptions of the…
Behind the Lines 12
23.09.2019
Behind the Lines 1223.09.2019
…window openings for the stained-glass artist, and the other his ceiling plan. Hills shows it to Robert Bayne, he is hoping that as the firm undertake murals as well as…
In the Archive: New and Found 4
26.07.2024
In the Archive: New and Found 426.07.2024
– Editors
…still visible through the opaque structure, but one can’t ignore the urban hypothetical intervention. Robert Smithson, Bath: walks within the walls, 1971. Imprint, 305 × 117 mm. DMC 2716.1. Richard…
La Casa Della Falsita
05.02.2020
La Casa Della Falsita05.02.2020
…and Robert Haussmann from Zurich; Robert Maria Stieg from Vienna; and Bruno Minardi, who hailed from the Rossi school in Venice but had the habit of hanging out with the…
Architectural Anxiety
28.09.2011
Architectural Anxiety28.09.2011
– Niall Hobhouse and Nicholas Olsberg
…had left Behrens’ office in 1912, taking with him the commission for the Kröller-Müller house in Holland. Are we to understand the inscription as a rapprochement, or as a triumphant…
presentation art practice landscape public space sketch work on paper (series) elevation projection (axonometric isometric) topographic/cartographic DMC