Soane: Energy and Frustration
24 June 2020
Soane: Energy and Frustration24 June 2020
…in a great out-pouring of flowing black pen lines; drawn in haste before as if he could forget them. The new entrance will in fact be centered under a five…
John Hejduk’s Axonometric Degree Zero
23 September 2019
John Hejduk’s Axonometric Degree Zero23 September 2019
…and spatial implications – including inscribing a cylinder in the cube, which when projected produced a completely inexplicable measurement. I even consulted with a mathematician, who was puzzled by our…
The Conservative (1941)
6 July 2020
The Conservative (1941)6 July 2020
…be judged in the late F. L. Griggs’s drawings now published, together with an introduction by Mr Russell Alexander. [1] As drawings they are not of wide interest, but to anyone who…
Espelho Álvaro
15 January 2020
Espelho Álvaro15 January 2020
…indispensable the curve of the wire, indispensable finally, for man, the poetry of this synthesis. We wonder for a moment what a similar object would be like were it designed…
The Birds’ Morning Hymn (1929)
10 July 2020
The Birds’ Morning Hymn (1929)10 July 2020
…I mean the birds’ Morning Hymn. We have all heard vaguely about ‘Bird Song at Dawn,’ and in this busy age it has been recorded on the gramophone under the…
Living in Colour
17 September 2019
Living in Colour17 September 2019
…The extreme rigour combined with the irrational emotion of the colour of this calendar represent the order and precision that together with the irrational emotion of nature and art characterise…
Le Corbusier and the Poetry of Objects
22 August 2019
Le Corbusier and the Poetry of Objects22 August 2019
…seeing’, now became the tool revealing ‘the secrets of form.’ If at the beginning of his graphic work drawing was the way to transcribe the structure and the hidden order…
Lauretta Vinciarelli’s West Texas Types
26 June 2019
Lauretta Vinciarelli’s West Texas Types26 June 2019
…Vinciarelli’s drawings included in this exhibition shortly after their realisation. The remainder of the installed drawings and watercolours were gifted by Vinciarelli’s husband, Peter Rowe to Judd Foundation in 2012. …
James Gowan: The Sheet for the Job
17 June 2020
James Gowan: The Sheet for the Job17 June 2020
…base or the geometric architecture that was drawn on it. But what is certain is that the engineer is sitting comfortably here, next to his machines, under a diamond shaped…
Behind the Lines 14
3 February 2020
Behind the Lines 143 February 2020
…the loudspeakers; other pontoons supported submerged fountains that would suddenly flash to the surface and shoot water into the sky. To all this wonder they added smoke and fireworks. Nothing…
A Smoky Monument / Saunamonumentti
5 June 2020
A Smoky Monument / Saunamonumentti5 June 2020
…to each of these can be regulated separately. The lowest firebox is for burning coniferous wood and alder, while the upper box has a sparse grate level with the tops…
What Lies Beneath
31 October 2019
What Lies Beneath31 October 2019
– Sarah Handelman
…with the rapid modernisation that was taking place in the wilderness down under. Australia, he discovered, was miles ahead of both Britain and America in its determination to build: ‘I…
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