High Ground
19 September 2016
High Ground19 September 2016
– Colette Sheddick and Pierre d'Avoine
School of Architecture and Landscape, Kingston University We have researched the Derwent Valley World Heritage Site (DVWHS) over the last three years. This year we investigated the impact of infrastructure…
Writing Prize 2020: Drawing People
23 September 2020
Writing Prize 2020: Drawing People23 September 2020
…as follows: All CAD people are slim, and European. They wear normative clothing appropriate to their gender (which is, of course, never anything except one or the other). They have…
Alternative Histories: Taka Architects on Peter Märkli
28 February 2019
Alternative Histories: Taka Architects on Peter Märkli28 February 2019
…back and interior rooms made specific through spatial divisions, decoration and architectural order. We know Markli’s house – with its stout singular form and enigmatic approach to order and decoration…
Soane’s Temple Stye
16 December 2020
Soane’s Temple Stye16 December 2020
…lowly Tuscan order, a primitive, stocky building with deep hanging eaves. An approach which suits the animal’s low stature, and need for shade. The symmetry, and structure of the classical…
Outside In
23 November 2020
Outside In23 November 2020
…what is visually apparent in order to be told (in writing) that the fruit is plastic, urges us to reconsider the authenticity of the room just as much as the…
Hugh Ferriss
4 October 2018
Hugh Ferriss4 October 2018
…It presents an image of how tall buildings could be shaped, or modelled, in order to retain the maximum mass and rentable volume while complying with the Zoning Ordinance. Ferris…
The Ultimate Climes of John Lautner (1986)
4 May 2020
The Ultimate Climes of John Lautner (1986)4 May 2020
…gabled, and shingled roof bespeaking repose, its glass bringing in a placid sea. Lautner’s house under construction next door is a scene out of Piranesi. The first quick glimpse is…
The Story of the Pool (1978)
19 June 2020
The Story of the Pool (1978)19 June 2020
…them. They had always dreamed of stainless-steel Chryslers and flying Empire States. At school, they had even much bolder visions, of which, ironically, the pool (almost invisible – practically submerged…
Liquid Paper
15 November 2019
Liquid Paper15 November 2019
…Paper, and Sea inke, they know ’T were not enough great Hempseeds worth to show. Indeed, Taylor works hard to convince his reader that hempseed is almost everything, or at…
Architecture at the Edge
13 January 2021
Architecture at the Edge13 January 2021
– Craig Moller and Marco Moro
…of the studio, but the ending materialised only at the end of the year when you collected all your studio projects into one folder, and that was actually when the…
projection (axonometric isometric) presentation autographicals (editorial project)