Álvaro Siza: Drawn Closer
11 June 2020
Álvaro Siza: Drawn Closer11 June 2020
Cover of ‘Caderno 1’, dated March 1977. This text was originally published in Architecture through Drawing. Drawn Closer is a year-long collaboration between Domus and Drawing Matter, edited by Sarah…
On William Kent (1771)
19 May 2020
On William Kent (1771)19 May 2020
William Kent (1685–1748), Sketch view of Windsor Castle, Windsor, England, 1740. Pen and black ink with wash on laid paper, 201 × 324 mm. DMC 1676. Here is Walpole’s famous…
Eisenman: House VI (1985)
21 May 2020
Eisenman: House VI (1985)21 May 2020
Peter Eisenman (1932), House VI: colour axonometric, 1972. Black ink, coloured ink, and adhesive vinyl on mylar, 609 × 609 mm. DMC 1280. The design of House VI was partly…
Gallaratese & Fagnano Olona (1976)
26 May 2020
Gallaratese & Fagnano Olona (1976)26 May 2020
Two fragments of texts paired with two fragments of process. Writing in the May 1976 issue of Architecture + Urbanism, Rossi reflects on two projects: the Gallaratese Housing Complex, Milan and…
New Welfare Island (1978)
27 May 2020
New Welfare Island (1978)27 May 2020
OMA, Rem Koolhaas, Roosevelt Island, 1975. Acrylic and watercolour. DMC 3070. In the appendix to Delirious New York, Rem Koolhaas’s retroactive manifesto for the island of Manhattan, the tacit logic of…
Working with Asplund
29 May 2020
Working with Asplund29 May 2020
Asplund’s office was two floors up in an old building in Regeringsgatan, behind the NK department store. There were civil engineers there and Asplund collaborated with them as well. They…
Michael Graves’ Rooftop Village (1985)
1 June 2020
Michael Graves’ Rooftop Village (1985)1 June 2020
Michael Graves (1934–2015), Sketch designs, Portland, Oregon, USA, 1980. Pencil and colour crayon on yellow tracing paper, 255 × 290 mm. DMC 1800. A notable aspect of the early criticism…
Welfare Palace Hotel (1978)
4 June 2020
Welfare Palace Hotel (1978)4 June 2020
Rem Koolhaas, Madelon Vriesendorp, Welfare Palace Hotel, Sunken Medusa Raft, 1975–1976. Gouache and acrylic on paper, 780 × 1140 mm. DMC 3000.1. In the appendix to Delirious New York, Rem Koolhaas’s…
Thomas Henry Wyatt’s Brook House
12 June 2020
Thomas Henry Wyatt’s Brook House12 June 2020
Thomas Henry Wyatt (1807–1880), Brook House, Park Lane, London, 1866. Pencil on paper watermarked, 680 × 980 mm. DMC 1555. There is no building that tells the social and aesthetic…
Ink on his Hands: Montano’s Visceral Roman Architectures
18 May 2020
Ink on his Hands: Montano’s Visceral Roman Architectures18 May 2020
Giovanni Battista Montano (1534–1621), leaf from an eight-page album (detail), c.1590–1610. Brown ink and brown wash, 245 × 143 mm. DMC 1542.4. When he sat down to make the drawings…
Ove Arup: Engineering the World
12 June 2020
Ove Arup: Engineering the World12 June 2020
Ove Arup (1895–1988), Sketch for Kingsgate Bridge, Durham, 5, 1963. Felt pen on tracing paper, 383 × 575 mm. DMC 2773.8. Ove Arup (1895–1988), Sketch for Kingsgate Bridge, Durham, 4,…
Behind the Lines 8
4 December 2018
Behind the Lines 84 December 2018
– Philippa Lewis
Page from an album of designs for graveyard memorials and tombstones, ‘Number 14’ Moos, 1811. Pen and ink and wash, double sheets on wove paper watermarked Huber. DMC 2453.7 v….
presentation memorial & monument behind the lines (series) creative writing DMC