Casa Ugalde Sketch
19 June 2023
Casa Ugalde Sketch19 June 2023
– Laura Bonell and Daniel Lopez-Doriga
…felt the ending result lacked order. It was not serious enough[1]. He sometimes said he would like to have the opportunity to start it all over again. This might be…
Design Starts: Loughborough School of Architecture at Shatwell Farm
3 May 2022
Design Starts: Loughborough School of Architecture at Shatwell Farm3 May 2022
…the archive and the place. Peter Wilson, Eurolandschaft – A Derive, 1998. Mixed media, 182 × 242 mm. DMC 2945.21. Jemima Dabell’s response to Peter Wilson’s Eurolandschaft – A Derive….
Materia 3: Red Oxide
30 September 2022
Materia 3: Red Oxide30 September 2022
…products. The first and second texts in the series, on render and corrugated iron, can be read here. Architects are subsumed within an eternal ontology of origin; as our sovereign practice of…
Robert Bray: Design for a Playboy Duplex Penthouse, 1970
17 January 2023
Robert Bray: Design for a Playboy Duplex Penthouse, 197017 January 2023
…Northampton’, he thinks, and makes a mental note to jettison the magazine before he gets home. Rosemary would scream blue murder if she saw it – months and months of…
Peter Wilson and Mark Dorrian in conversation – Part 2
22 July 2024
Peter Wilson and Mark Dorrian in conversation – Part 222 July 2024
– Mark Dorrian and Peter Wilson
…the project then? Did you run it as a student project? PW: No … it was the absent centre, Hans Sedlmayr’s Verlust der Mitte. Eisenman was talking about the loss of…
The Captive Globe
28 March 2024
The Captive Globe28 March 2024
…where science, art, poetry and forms of madness compete under ideal conditions to invent, destroy and restore the world of phenomenal Reality. Each science or mania has its own plot.’[4]…
One Thing Leads to Another
23 April 2020
One Thing Leads to Another23 April 2020
…of, this framework of ideas. Iteration and architectural rigour are therefore inseparable. We have all felt the anaemia of a project that has come about through under-interrogated actions: where an architectural veneer…
James Gowan Millbank: Sketches and Comments
9 December 2019
James Gowan Millbank: Sketches and Comments9 December 2019
…aesthetics and it could be claimed that it is reassuring to know that such a safety net exists and that it is in working order. Some years back, I remember…
One Small Sketch for Mankind
13 January 2020
One Small Sketch for Mankind13 January 2020
…DMC 2642.2. Loewy’s brief was to look at Skylab’s ‘floor plan’ and to consider colour and lighting. Nearly eighty years old at the time, the better to understand the challenges,…
Origins in Translation
20 January 2020
Origins in Translation20 January 2020
…so is the way in which it contrasts with that pristine white piece of a classical building fragment (in the two photos above). It is impossible not to wonder what…
‘I chose a distant meadow’: The House that Neutra Built
20 March 2020
‘I chose a distant meadow’: The House that Neutra Built20 March 2020
…resulted in another curiosity not evident on the plan. Von Sternberg insisted that the bathrooms have no locks. This in order to deter suicides by neurotic guests. As the patron…
Beverly Buchanan: here I am; I’m still here
15 December 2022
Beverly Buchanan: here I am; I’m still here15 December 2022
– Clara Maria Blasius
…the politics of race, gender, identity, and memory. Buchanan was born in North Carolina in 1940, then studied in New York and worked in the health sector. In 1971 she…
architecture foundation writing prize 2022