BV Doshi: Drawn Closer
23 April 2020
BV Doshi: Drawn Closer23 April 2020
– Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi and Sarah Handelman
…pond, you look up at the sky and wonder, ‘where is the building?’. But isn’t life a fluid thing that always makes us wonder and admire? And can’t architecture be…
Space
27 April 2020
Space27 April 2020
…a sacred area, 30-degree or 36 degree segments of a circle radiated. The corners of all buildings completely closed the view (in the Doric order) or opened a single segment…
Paul Robbrecht: Drawn Closer
12 May 2020
Paul Robbrecht: Drawn Closer12 May 2020
…now 36 years later, this drawing doesn’t seem chaotic. There is a sense of order, and I see myself working through things. First, there is a clear direction – you…
Jean-Baptiste Lassus
1 August 2016
Jean-Baptiste Lassus1 August 2016
After a brief passage at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in the studio of Henri Labrouste from 1828 to 1830, French architect Jean-Baptiste Lassus fell under the sway of…
Alternative Histories: Edelaar Mosayebi Inderbitzin Architekten on Alvar Aalto
29 July 2019
Alternative Histories: Edelaar Mosayebi Inderbitzin Architekten on Alvar Aalto29 July 2019
…weniger Anleitung für unsere Arbeit am Projekt alternative history, sondern eröffnete vielmehr einen Imaginationsraum – nicht zuletzt, weil der markante Rathausturm im Entwurf von Aalto gar nicht realisiert wurde. Unsere Recherche…
Netherfield Scroll Two
28 August 2018
Netherfield Scroll Two28 August 2018
…dozen grades to 4H. The harder grades enabled more accurate and thinner lines, but really too difficult to erase, using either the type of rubber at one or the harder…
The James Clarke Remake
20 July 2021
The James Clarke Remake20 July 2021
– Oscar Binder and Nikolaus Podlaha
…Auflage. J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), Tübingen 1975. Oscar Binder and Nikolaus Podlaha are both currently studying for their Masters in Architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. This text…
In search of an honest map
22 February 2021
In search of an honest map22 February 2021
…interactions with our surroundings, encouraging the dérive, or ‘drift’: aimless, unplanned explorations of an urban landscape, navigated by chance and emotion. Out of context, Debord’s map is a drawing that…
Behind the Lines 12
23 September 2019
Behind the Lines 1223 September 2019
…days to shore up the crumbling masonry and failing piers. They failed. Hills had been the last man to leave and had written in The Builder a few months later: ‘Chichester has…
The Architect and the Matador
8 February 2021
The Architect and the Matador8 February 2021
…choreographic kinship. A shared tendency toward spectacles of improbable precision, which all boils down to decisions about which lines to take and which lines not to take. I wonder how…
The Perpetual Race of Piranesi and the Tortoise
1 March 2021
The Perpetual Race of Piranesi and the Tortoise1 March 2021
…an entity and non-entity, something we can shape and mould, but never grasp, something we can divide yet never truly measure. In order to concisely consider Piranesi’s relationship with infinity,…
Surface-oriented
18 December 2019
Surface-oriented18 December 2019
– Rosa Nussbaum
…annotated in a somewhat obstinate tone with diligently assigned labels for each of the four identical drawers. Further ‘divisions for papers’ bring much needed order to the veritable no man’s…
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