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James Gowan: The Sheet for the Job
17 June 2020
James Gowan: The Sheet for the Job17 June 2020
James Gowan (1923–2015), University of Leicester, Engineering Building diagram, 1959–1963. Pencil on trace, 295 × 195 mm. DMC 2361. The elevation of the Engineering Faculty in Leicester, a building by…
The Story of the Pool (1978)
19 June 2020
The Story of the Pool (1978)19 June 2020
Rem Koolhaas, Madelon Vriesendorp, Medusa Raft, Trial proof, 1978. Screenprint. DMC 3000.11. In the appendix to Delirious New York, Rem Koolhaas’s retroactive manifesto for the island of Manhattan, the tacit logic…
Soane: Energy and Frustration
24 June 2020
Soane: Energy and Frustration24 June 2020
John Soane (1753–1837), Combe House for Reymundo Putt, 1805–1811. Black ink and pencil on wove paper. Albert Richardson’s collector’s mark on verso, 340 × 682 mm. DMC 1845.r. This seemingly…
Mies: The Berlin Building Expostition (1974)
25 June 2020
Mies: The Berlin Building Expostition (1974)25 June 2020
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886–1969), German Building Exposition, 1931. Photograph, 170 × 230 mm. DMC 1088. The following text is excerpted from Oppositions 2 (1974): 86–91. The Berlin Building Exposition of…
Notes on Port Royal, Jamaica
7 July 2020
Notes on Port Royal, Jamaica7 July 2020
– Paul Cox
Nathaniel Watts, elevation, site plan and section, designs for store houses, Port Royal, Jamaica, 1786. DMC 1824. My parents Oliver and Jean Cox were devoted ‘Jamaicophiles’, having worked on many…
Hotel Sphinx (1978)
18 May 2020
Hotel Sphinx (1978)18 May 2020
Elia Zenghelis, OMA, elevation, Hotel Sphinx, Times Square, New York, 1975. Pencil and ink on tracing, 296 × 210 mm. DMC 3150. In the appendix to Delirious New York, Rem Koolhaas’s…
L’Invasion de la Viande (1980)
14 May 2020
L’Invasion de la Viande (1980)14 May 2020
Jean Criton (1930), Mounument pour un Rosbeef, c.1968–1969. Pen, ink and coloured chalks on buff paper, 321 × 251 mm. DMC 2054. As part of an imagined intervention in the…
Aalto on Asplund: Stockholm Exhibition (1930)
9 March 2020
Aalto on Asplund: Stockholm Exhibition (1930)9 March 2020
Erik Gunnar Asplund (1885–1940), interior perspective, Main Restaurant, Stockholm Exhibition of 1930, Stockholm, Sweden, 1929. Pencil and gouache, adhered to mount, 215 × 320 mm. DMC 1387. The biased social…
Space
27 April 2020
Space27 April 2020
Charles Moore, sketch, plans and elevations, St Matthew’s Episcopal Church, 1980. Pencil on tracing paper, 455 × 490 mm. DMC 2833. Space in architecture is a special category of free…
‘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
Richard Neutra (1892–1970), Residence for Joseph von Sternberg, 1935. Ink and pencil on paper mounted to board. DMC 1364. There are several curiosities in the plan of this classic modernist…
Take One: Henry ‘Jim’ Cadbury-Brown and Richard Wentworth on the Royal College of Art
27 March 2020
Take One: Henry ‘Jim’ Cadbury-Brown and Richard Wentworth on the Royal College of Art27 March 2020
Take One is a collaboration between Drawing Matter and the Architects’ Lives oral history project run by National Life Stories. Each episode pairs a drawing or visual element with a short audio extract,…
The Birds’ Morning Hymn (1929)
10 July 2020
The Birds’ Morning Hymn (1929)10 July 2020
– Robert Lorimer
Robert Lorimer (1864–1929), design for a panel, Oak tree with birds in branches, c.1891–1898. Pencil on trace, 365 × 270 mm. DMC 3276.5. From a letter to The Times of…
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