Christoph Schlingensiefs Operndorf Afrika (2020): Review
27 September 2021
Christoph Schlingensiefs Operndorf Afrika (2020): Review27 September 2021
…book. Operndorf Afrika’s content is presented in a relaxed manner, with minimal hierarchy, easing the reader into the subject and providing a holistic understanding of this work, from a variety…
Benjamin Wistar Morris and a new Metropolitan Opera House
10 June 2022
Benjamin Wistar Morris and a new Metropolitan Opera House10 June 2022
…(like Washington Heights or the Carnegie Hill neighbourhoods), unexpected rock outcroppings, and quick changes in elevation (Columbia University’s main campus upper terrace is 40 feet above its border 4 blocks…
Connor Street: Made by Many Hands
4 December 2023
Connor Street: Made by Many Hands4 December 2023
…the everyday realities of the project and, in the green text, the broader environmental issues incumbent on architects to address. The texts have been developed by Kieran from a talk first given during the Poetic Pragmatism symposium, organised…
Houses for Printing: A Microcosm of the World
21 February 2024
Houses for Printing: A Microcosm of the World21 February 2024
…Arvind Taves. See Karen Michels, Der Sinn Der Unordnung: Arbeitsformen Im Atelier Le Corbusier (Braunschweig: Vieweg & Sohn, 1989), 42. ‘The intermediate master or reproducible copy encourages improvisation. The designer can make…
Architectural Covers: A Site of Design
7 February 2024
Architectural Covers: A Site of Design7 February 2024
…projects that will never materialize. That keeps them off the streets, and busy!’[2] As an alternative to this model, Katan’s approach reflected a broader repositioning of urban renewal and participatory planning…
The Religious Architecture of Alvar, Aino and Elissa Aalto (2023) — Review
26 January 2024
The Religious Architecture of Alvar, Aino and Elissa Aalto (2023) — Review26 January 2024
…influenced his ecclesial projects [3]. Within these discourses were several shared concerns between Aalto and his religious clients that helped to ally against tendencies developed in the wider context of…
The Polyhedrists (2022) – Review
8 December 2023
The Polyhedrists (2022) – Review8 December 2023
…derived by slicing up or embellishing regular polygons, in their case all the edges are congruent—Andrews cites the rhombicuboctahedron in Ugo da Carpi’s chiaroscuro woodcut print of Archimedes (c.1518–1520) as…
Painting in Stone (2020) – Review
1 March 2022
Painting in Stone (2020) – Review1 March 2022
…hint toward Barry’s ambition. In order to scratch away inherited prejudices and metaphors, it seems, we cannot claim a temporal detachment from our subject. Did you ever pick up a…
Capilla Pajaritos
24 August 2023
Capilla Pajaritos24 August 2023
…act of inhabiting. For this reason it is necessary to reconsider the act of the rituals of sun and distance that occur in the passions of modesty and annoyance. Reconsider…
W. R. Lethaby: Architecture, Mysticism and Myth
10 August 2022
W. R. Lethaby: Architecture, Mysticism and Myth10 August 2022
…he had the opportunity to reconsider the subject, and the text was revised, with a shift away from the earlier emphasis on anthropology and towards psychology, republished in 1928 under…
Domestication and the Permutation of Interruption
2 July 2019
Domestication and the Permutation of Interruption2 July 2019
…work and making it visible to a public, initially as single-channel work to be screened through a variety of ways and means, such as Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman (1978–79), now in the Kramlich…
Connor Street: Made by Many Hands
12 February 2024
Connor Street: Made by Many Hands12 February 2024
– Kieran Hawkins
…the everyday realities of the project and, in the green text, the broader environmental issues incumbent on architects to address. The texts have been developed by Kieran from a talk first given during the Poetic Pragmatism symposium, organised…
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