Houses of Work and Play
30 March 2020
Houses of Work and Play30 March 2020
…a DIN Standard, Fibonacci-sequence-derived-Golden-Section ratio on A-sized paper. In other words, the initial drawing establishes the project as an exercise; establishing architecture as a mode of creativity founded on proportion…
Where Words Fail
6 April 2020
Where Words Fail6 April 2020
– Cyril Babeev and Matt Page
…five and three quarter arshin. After exhausting the interior, Likholet takes a moment to consider the exterior of the house, stating that the facade should be constructed in brick with stucco…
Geoffrey Goes to Basildon
10 October 2019
Geoffrey Goes to Basildon10 October 2019
…Development Corporation had begun to systematically erase what Abercrombie’s report saw as the disorder of the plotlands developments (their ‘ownership… shrouded in mystery’). The first wave of neighbourhood house building…
Architectural models and the oriental ideal of the Alhambra
20 May 2024
Architectural models and the oriental ideal of the Alhambra20 May 2024
…wonder, we could just admire the perseverance and patience of its author.’[4] Encouraged by the admiration that his models received, Contreras set up a private workshop dedicated to their production….
Postmodern Australia: Robert Pearce’s Drawings for Edmond and Corrigan
1 February 2022
Postmodern Australia: Robert Pearce’s Drawings for Edmond and Corrigan1 February 2022
…derived from suburbia and the theatre, defines the practice’s formal and representational bodies of work. Robert Pearce (1949–1989), Barber House, 1979. Ink on paper, 600 x 705 mm. RMIT Design…
Fresh and Surprised
2 July 2020
Fresh and Surprised2 July 2020
…email from Sander Meijer, manager of Flevopark, to Julian Lewis, 2012; photograph taken outside one of the park entrances. The so-called ‘hairy drawing’ presented here is one of a series…
Drawings as Cosmovisions
12 August 2024
Drawings as Cosmovisions12 August 2024
…convey. There was no architecture. Today, knowing that architecture must include more things than we normally consider, such as its relationship with the exterior, with resources, and with people, architectural…
Watchful Solitude: John Hejduk and Venice
15 July 2024
Watchful Solitude: John Hejduk and Venice15 July 2024
…la sua presenza e la sua negazione’ was organized in order to investigate scenarios of transformation for the western region of the Cannaregio district. The seminar gave rise to the…
Fabric Object: Diana Agrest and Mario Gandelsonas
26 August 2024
Fabric Object: Diana Agrest and Mario Gandelsonas26 August 2024
– Erin Besler, Marshall Brown, Sylvia Lavin and Michael Meredith
…sea of signs on the city. Embedded in this diagram of collective order, in which radical equivalencies between the language contract and the social contract underwrite the very possibility of…
In the Archive: New and Found 4
26 July 2024
In the Archive: New and Found 426 July 2024
– Editors
…which distort scale in order to flatten the spherical earth. A distortion that, no doubt incidentally, enlarged the apparent area of Europe and the USA at the expense of equatorial…
Behind the Walls
23 March 2020
Behind the Walls23 March 2020
– Matt Page
…however, is not his treading of a line between being a sort of graphic builder and a paper architect, but rather what his drawings might suggest about wider issues related…
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