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O’Donnell + Tuomey in Conversation
8 May 2020
O’Donnell + Tuomey in Conversation8 May 2020
– Sheila O'Donnell and John Tuomey
Sheila O’Donnell (1953), composite plan drawing, Central European University, Budapest, 2013. Print on thick wove paper, 1200 × 1200 mm. DMC 3220. John Tuomey: Let me tell you the story…
Paul Robbrecht: Drawn Closer
12 May 2020
Paul Robbrecht: Drawn Closer12 May 2020
Initiatief 86 was important because (as Robbrecht en Daem) it was more or less our first real work for art. It was also an important moment for the Belgian art…
Superstudio: In Yesterday’s Tomorrow
23 December 2018
Superstudio: In Yesterday’s Tomorrow23 December 2018
‘Metamorphoses become frequent when a culture does not have sufficient courage to commit suicide (to eliminate itself) and has no clear alternatives to offer either‘ – Adolfo Natalini Superstudio (1966–1978),…
Mussolini and the Tomb of Augustus in the Spring of 1935
20 November 2018
Mussolini and the Tomb of Augustus in the Spring of 193520 November 2018
Vittorio Ballio Morpurgo (1890–1966), Piazza Augusto Imperatore, before 6 May 1935. Overdrawn photograph on paper, 1105 × 1900 mm. DMC 2666. Fascist urban planning was animated by the fear that…
Paul Robbrecht
2 November 2016
Paul Robbrecht2 November 2016
Watercolour is not the traditional medium one associates with architectural plans, particularly those that are realised in built form. I believe this is what caught my eye while searching for…
Charles Percier
18 November 2016
Charles Percier18 November 2016
Charles Percier (1764–1838), Design for a Samovar, c.1808. Black lead, pen and grey ink and grey, brown and black wash, 380 × 293 mm. DMC 2171. Design for a Samovar…
Ferdinando Galli Bibiena
19 May 2017
Ferdinando Galli Bibiena19 May 2017
Ferdinando Galli Bibiena (1657–1743), Stage Set (verso), 1700. Pen and sepia ink with blue wash on paper, 205 × 259 mm. DMC 1551v. When, in the two-point perspective drawings of…
Guy Debord
7 June 2017
Guy Debord7 June 2017
Guy Debord (1931–1994), Guide psychogéographique de Paris. Discours sur les passions de l’amour, 1957. Lithograph, 595 × 735 mm. DMC 2302. ‘But I must here, once and for all, inform…
Karl Friedrich Schinkel
7 June 2017
Karl Friedrich Schinkel7 June 2017
Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781–1841), Construction for Entrance Facade, Tilebein House, Stettin, Prussia, 1806. Sepia ink and colour washes on paper, two sheets joined, 1000 × 605 mm. DMC 1856.1. In…
The Decline of Architectural Drawing (1859)
11 May 2020
The Decline of Architectural Drawing (1859)11 May 2020
– C. H. Smith
Henry Roberts (1803–1876), Fishmongers’ Hall, 1838. Pen, ink, watercolour and bodycolour on thick wove paper, 505 × 747 mm. DMC 2161. The Royal Academy’s 1859 summer exhibition, combined with a…
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