The Ulysses Project: Architecture and the city through James Joyce’s Dublin: Part II
17 June 2022
The Ulysses Project: Architecture and the city through James Joyce’s Dublin: Part II17 June 2022
…anything. Chapter 8, lines 485-92 Miss Douce’s brave eyes, unregarded, turned from the crossblind, smitten by sunlight. Gone. Pensive (who knows?), smitten (the smiting light) she lowered the dropblind with…
Thinking Through Twentieth-Century Architecture (2023) – Review
17 August 2023
Thinking Through Twentieth-Century Architecture (2023) – Review17 August 2023
…the fore. ‘My thesis’, he states, ‘is that the practice of architecture and its critical understanding are dependent on views of the world that can be examined philosophically.’ Michael Graves,…
Just Begin: The Convent Sainte-Marie-de-la-Tourette
28 July 2020
Just Begin: The Convent Sainte-Marie-de-la-Tourette28 July 2020
– Stan Allen and José Oubrerie
…design proposition dictates its own course. Iannis Xenakis (1922–2001), axonometric study, Convent Sainte-Marie-de-la-Tourette, 1954. Pencil and Colored Pencil. Foundation Le Corbusier © FLC-ADAGP. The Convent Sainte-Marie-de-la-Tourette is one of Le…
Inessential Colors: Architecture on Paper in Early Modern Europe (2021) – Review
17 March 2022
Inessential Colors: Architecture on Paper in Early Modern Europe (2021) – Review17 March 2022
…central motor of perception and media construction. Abraham-Louis-Rodolphe Ducros (designer and colorist), Giovanni Volpato (engraver), Vue de l’Arc de Tite à Rome, Rome, ca. 1780. Etching, colored washes and gouache…
Notes on the 2017 Summer School
19 August 2017
Notes on the 2017 Summer School19 August 2017
– Nana Biamah-Ofosu and Bushra Mohamed
…seeing things, (and what one expects of them).’ Ludwig Wittgenstein, Diary, 1931 Nana Biamah-Ofosu: In Wittgenstein’s words I recognise my own pursuit of architecture. The practice of, the making and…
Alison and Peter Smithson’s Collages as Reinventing Established Reality
24 February 2023
Alison and Peter Smithson’s Collages as Reinventing Established Reality24 February 2023
…Bookshop, 32 Bedford Square (door at No.33), London WC1B 3ES. The event will be open to the public. Notes Alison and Peter Smithson, ‘The “As Found” and the “Found”‘, in David Robbins,…
Architecture’s Mirror Stage
26 February 2021
Architecture’s Mirror Stage26 February 2021
…“Periscope” exterior window treatment, Corning Museum of Glass, New York, USA, c.1976–1980. Gunnar Birkerts and Associates records, hs18338, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan. In the drawing, [above] an unclad,…
Writing Prize 2020: Hugh Casson’s ‘Diary’
6 November 2020
Writing Prize 2020: Hugh Casson’s ‘Diary’6 November 2020
…for fantasy stage-flats for the opera at Glyndebourne. There is his banqueting work (Royal Academy, Buckingham Palace) and his bread-and-butter work (Sainsbury’s in Chichester, Waitrose’s Beaconsfield store.) A request comes…
Leto Litho Leningrad
20 February 2020
Leto Litho Leningrad20 February 2020
…1972, never to return. Leningrad was for him a distant memory, an emotional location both lost and longed for. Лето – leto – pronounced lieta – Russian for summer. Anatoli Lvovich Kaplan (1902–1980), Summer Garden,…
Venice Biennale
14 September 2018
Venice Biennale14 September 2018
…to finally, Sigurd’s Lewerentz’s churches set within the landscape. Exhibition: Elizabeth Hatz, Line Light Locus (installation & publication) Elizabeth Hatz (1953), Elevation A, Ground – Floor, Venice Biennale, 2018. Digital…
Seeing Fire | Seeing Meadows
19 August 2024
Seeing Fire | Seeing Meadows19 August 2024
– Holger Kleine and Anna Kostreva
…‘New Mosques’ (Catalogue JOVIS 2014), ‘My Home is my Parcel’ (German Architecture Museum Frankfurt DAM 2020), and ‘The Salons of the Republic’ (DAM /JOVIS 2021). His design ‘Talking Station 1’…
section projection (axonometric isometric) publication theoretical & imaginary