Connor Street: Made by Many Hands
3 November 2023
Connor Street: Made by Many Hands3 November 2023
…a limited definition of ‘functionality’. We were working as part of a small close-knit group: just Cairn, Structure Workshop, the contractor David Sheard, with occasional advice from kind specialists. Communication…
Take One: Colin St John Wilson, MJ Long and Eric Parry on the British Library
7 February 2020
Take One: Colin St John Wilson, MJ Long and Eric Parry on the British Library7 February 2020
– Editors
…who as a tutor at Cambridge used the British Library as a case study and brought students to the building when it was under construction. https://soundcloud.com/the-british-library/colin-st-john-sandy-wilson-british-library https://soundcloud.com/the-british-library/eric-parry-drawing https://soundcloud.com/the-british-library/mj-long-british-library-location https://soundcloud.com/the-british-library/mj-long-british-library-design https://soundcloud.com/the-british-library/eric-parry-british-library-building…
T.O.P. Office and the Accademia Bridge
24 April 2023
T.O.P. Office and the Accademia Bridge24 April 2023
Luc Deleu (1944–), Ponte dell’Accademia – Venice Biennale 1985, 1984–1985. Pen and ink on tracing, 700 × 1855 mm. DMC 3514. In a way, this project was architecturally ‘ready-made’. Our…
Writing Prize 2020: Pens down, Braid up
17 December 2020
Writing Prize 2020: Pens down, Braid up17 December 2020
Meschac Gaba, Défilé de Pérruques, Tresses Series, December, 2010. Processional performance during the Musée de l’Art et de la Vie Active (MAVA) opening, Cotonou, Republic of Benin. Hair, silky, wavy or…
Carlos Diniz: United States Embassy, Moscow
14 February 2018
Carlos Diniz: United States Embassy, Moscow14 February 2018
…States, Moscow, The Commons, c.1976. Felt-tip Pentel on trace. © Estate of Carlos Diniz. DMC 2967.13. Carlos Diniz (1928–2001), Embassy of the United States, Moscow, The Commons, c.1976. Felt-tip Pentel…
Materia: Render
12 April 2022
Materia: Render12 April 2022
…Vladimír Karfík, Bata Shoe Factory, East Tilbury, Essex, 1932. Photo: Gordon Shrigley. Stucco rendered facade, G. Ledwell Taylor, St Martin’s National school, 1–4 St Martin’s Lane, London, 1827–30. Photo: Gordon Shrigley. More recent developments…
R. Norman Shaw
11 March 2018
R. Norman Shaw11 March 2018
…paper. DMC 2875.4. R. Norman Shaw (1831–1912), Belfry, St Margaret’s Church, Ilkley, c. 1879. Pen and ink and colour wash on paper. DMC 2875.2. The drawings also demonstrate Shaw’s relaxed,…
The Cottage at Bromley
28 June 2021
The Cottage at Bromley28 June 2021
– Tim Anstey and Mari Lending
…Book (London: Frances Lincoln, 2010), 114. Gordon, ‘In memoriam’, 144. Ibid., 152. Tim Ainsworth Anstey, ‘Moving memory: the buildings of the Warburg Institute’, Kunst og Kultur 3/2020 (vol 103), https://www.idunn.no/kk/2020/03/moving_memory_the_buildings_of_the_warburg_institute…
Notes on Nabokov
19 September 2024
Notes on Nabokov19 September 2024
…Joan Miro is—a passionate precision where ‘everything is in correspondence.’[3] Notes Vladimir Nabokov, Lectures on Literature (Boston: Mariner Books, 2002), 1. Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Production of Presence: What Meaning Cannot Convey (Stanford: Stanford University…
In the Archive: Laugier, Eisen, Boulogne, Petitot, Percier, Dumont and Hadid
22 March 2022
In the Archive: Laugier, Eisen, Boulogne, Petitot, Percier, Dumont and Hadid22 March 2022
…Michael Bryan, ‘Aliamet, Jean Jacques’, in Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical: Volume I A-K, ed. Robert Edmund Graves (London: George Bell & Sons, 1886), p.19; Marc-Antoine Laugier, …
The Drawing as Actor
5 September 2017
The Drawing as Actor5 September 2017
Uncaptioned frontispiece to How should we rebuild London? From Die Stalinallee Nationales Aufbauprogramme – ‘With the architects’ drawings in hand, the site engineers get to work.’ In two publications about post-war reconstruction, How…
Michael Webb
1 February 2017
Michael Webb1 February 2017
– Mark Dorrian
…multiple times within the drawing. Michael Webb (1937), Escalators anterior and posterior, Sin Centre, after 1961. Ink and colour film overlay on card. DMC 1101.21. Michael Webb (1937), Study for…
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