Architectural manuals and Pacific speculations
23 May 2023
Architectural manuals and Pacific speculations23 May 2023
…p.4. Thomas C. Wang, Plan and Section Drawing, 2nd edn (New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1996), p.41. L.M. Patten & M.L. Rogness, Architectural Drawing, revised edn (Dubuque, Iowa: Wm, C….
Álvaro Siza: The Adoration of the magi
19 January 2022
Álvaro Siza: The Adoration of the magi19 January 2022
…architect or artist on the ‘stairway to heaven’. Left: Álvaro Siza, Monument study, Bouça, 1977 (detail). Sketchbook 8, p. 5, DMC 2509.5. Right: Bouça Monument, Porto, 1973–2006. Photo: António Choupina….
Keep digging and you will find what you are looking for: Alvar Aalto in Germany
27 October 2023
Keep digging and you will find what you are looking for: Alvar Aalto in Germany27 October 2023
…(260). Cf. Harry Charrington, ‘The Makings of a Surrounding World: The Public Spaces of the Aalto Atelier’ (PhD diss., London School of Economics, 2008), 140. Cf. Alvar Aalto, ‘What is…
Jessie Brennan
4 January 2017
Jessie Brennan4 January 2017
…inherently retrospective, record drawings also imply something yet to come. The second, third and fourth drawings of this series – ‘The Scheme’, ‘The Enabling Power’, ‘The Justification’ (titles referring to…
In the Archive: New and Found 3
3 May 2024
In the Archive: New and Found 33 May 2024
– Editors
…terms. The environmental objects (pods) distil all the previous experiences with signs, disruption and “textures”, adding clear references to conceptual art and to superseding art within the “art system”.’ https://ugolapietra.com/en/the-1960s/the-immersions/ [accessed 12/04/2024]….
Gallaratese & Fagnano Olona (1976)
26 May 2020
Gallaratese & Fagnano Olona (1976)26 May 2020
…reality and his mind’s eye. Aldo Rossi (1931–1997), Urban fragment, 1977. Ink, oil crayon and felt pen on paper, 300 × 290 mm. DMC 1799. © Eredi Aldo Rossi. ‘The…
Architecture in Archives: The Collection of the Akademie der Künste (2016) – Review
10 February 2023
Architecture in Archives: The Collection of the Akademie der Künste (2016) – Review10 February 2023
…1. Daniel M. Abramson, Zeynep Çelik Alexander, and Michael Osman, “Introduction: Evidence, Narrative, and Writing Architectural History”, in Aggregate, Writing Architectural History. Evidence and Narrative in the Twenty-First Century, University of Pittsburgh Press 2021, 3–16, p.11….
Homegrown: Building a Post-Carbon Future (2023) – review
6 March 2023
Homegrown: Building a Post-Carbon Future (2023) – review6 March 2023
…‘Homegrown: Building a Post-Carbon Future’, Building Centre, Photo © Henry Woide. Material Cultures, ‘Homegrown: Building a Post-Carbon Future’, Building Centre, Photo © Henry Woide. The materials are selected and presented…
Relics of Electronic Hallucinations
11 July 2024
Relics of Electronic Hallucinations11 July 2024
…fluidity in: Lebbeus Woods, Fluid Space, The Lebbeus Woods Blog, 28 June 2009, <https://lebbeuswoods.wordpress.com/2009/06/28/fluid-space/> [accessed 20 May 2024] Vilém Flusser, Into the Universe of Technical Images, trans. by Nancy Ann Roth (Minneapolis:…
Geoffrey Goes to Basildon
10 October 2019
Geoffrey Goes to Basildon10 October 2019
…× 83 mm. DMC 2876. Geoffrey Jellicoe (1900–1996), Motopia sketchbook, 1955–1956. Pen and ink. Adlwych notebook, 80 leaves lined paper, 133 × 83 mm. DMC 2876. A little sketchbook, now…
Alternative Histories: BeL on Walter Pichler
15 April 2019
Alternative Histories: BeL on Walter Pichler15 April 2019
BeL Sozietät für Architektur, Walter Pichler’s study sketch for the Underground City, 2018. Metal, concrete, plaster, paint, foam, wood, pastel chalk, wood glue, paper, coal, styrofoam, plastic, playdough, sandpaper, plasticine,…
USSR in Construction No. 9 1931
1 September 2017
USSR in Construction No. 9 19311 September 2017
– Marie Collier
…by the engineer Vladimir Shukov (1918), MosGES (First Electrical Plant, by Zholtovsky, 1927), The House on the Embankment by Boris Iofan, completed in 1931, and Melnikov’s Rusakov Worker’s Club (1927)…
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