Michael Graves: Fargo-Moorehead Cultural Bridge
15 October 2018
Michael Graves: Fargo-Moorehead Cultural Bridge15 October 2018
Michael Graves (1934–2015), south elevation, Fargo-Moorehead Cultural Bridge, 1977. Pencil and coloured crayon on yellow tracing paper, 285 × 645 mm. DMC 2298. The Fargo-Moorhead Cultural Bridge is an unrealised…
Madelon Vriesendorp and Rem Koolhaas at Van Rooy Gallery, 1980
23 October 2018
Madelon Vriesendorp and Rem Koolhaas at Van Rooy Gallery, 198023 October 2018
– Editors
OMA (1975), Madelon Vriesendorp (1945) and Rem Koolhaas (1944), Welfare Palace Hotel, Sunken Medusa Raft, 1975–1976. Gouache and acrylic on paper, 780 × 1140 mm. DMC 3000.1. On 1 October…
Jørn Utzon’s Sydney Opera House
26 April 2018
Jørn Utzon’s Sydney Opera House26 April 2018
https://vimeo.com/265976565 Somebody said the story about the orange is not right, but it is: he sent one of us over to the shop to buy an orange and he peeled…
Eurolandschaft Dérive
1 April 2018
Eurolandschaft Dérive1 April 2018
Peter Wilson (1950), Eurolandschaft – A Dérive, 1998. Mixed media, 185 × 240 mm. DMC 2945.1. The format is Japanese: a concertina sketchbook presented empty to me by Akira Suzuki…
Assemble: Collective Authorship
18 November 2017
Assemble: Collective Authorship18 November 2017
– Giles Smith and Adam Willis
Assemble (2010), 1:1 Façade Mock-up, Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, 2016. Acid-stained fibre cement, plaster and stainless steel fixings. DMC L3059. Assemble’s practice was established in 2010 through a collective…
A Blueprint is… Blue
24 January 2018
A Blueprint is… Blue24 January 2018
Jean-Charles Moreux (1889–1956), Front Elevation, Design for a block of flats, Rue Gazan, Paris, c.1927. Cyanotype on paper. DMC 2272.2. A common error in looking at architectural drawings is to…
Herbert Matter
27 November 2017
Herbert Matter27 November 2017
Herbert Matter (1907–1984), Design proof for Arts & Architecture, June 1945 cover. Photomontage, 335 × 250 mm. © Herbert Matter Estate. DMC 2914.1. Herbert Matter (1907–1984), Cover artwork for Arts…
Anthony Salvin
18 December 2017
Anthony Salvin18 December 2017
Anthony Salvin (1799–1881), Design for Tower and Spire of Church of St Mary Magdalene, Torquay, c.1854. Pen and ink and colour wash on yellow tracing paper. DMC 2728. As Torquay…
Behind the Lines 2
19 December 2017
Behind the Lines 219 December 2017
P. O’Neil, Kitchen Design, c.1955. Pen, ink and watercolour on thick wove paper, 470 × 387 mm. DMC 2944. An idle (and very fanciful) speculation on the origin of a…
The Politics of the Image
5 January 2018
The Politics of the Image5 January 2018
– Maria S. Giudici, Joseph Mercer, Florian Scheucher, Keranie Theodosiou, Livia Wang, Sophie Williams and Feifei Zhou
Archizoom Associati (1966–1974), Teatro segreto in ambiente domestico con gazebo metallico, after 1966. Print on paper, 285 × 215 mm. DMC 2057.6. My course, The Politics of the Image at the Royal…
Gabriel Pierre Martin Dumont
7 January 2018
Gabriel Pierre Martin Dumont7 January 2018
– Editors
Gabriel Pierre Martin Dumont (1720–1791), Garden design following the ground plan of St Peter’s, Rome, 1769. Pen, ink, pencil and watercolour on two joined sheets of watermarked laid paper, 710…
Bruce Goff
20 October 2018
Bruce Goff20 October 2018
– Nicholas Olsberg
Bruce Goff (1904–1982), Elevations of the first scheme, in which the projecting tubes of studio space are pierced with eye-shaped openings, Proposed Dewlen House and Studios (‘Aparture’), Amarillo, Texas, 1956….
section elevation presentation domestic DMC plan