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Shape
28 April 2020
Shape28 April 2020
…of an absurd airplane, presumably designed by an architect. It was unable to fly under its deadweight of misunderstood talismen, columns, pediments, and walls of crumbling stone. By the 1960s…
Cadbury-Brown: Royal College of Art Extension
28 April 2020
Cadbury-Brown: Royal College of Art Extension28 April 2020
…– front runner the Aga Khan with (to our embarrassment) Casson and Conder as his architects. Our scheme, by Cadnury-Brown, has to squeeze far more on to this costly site,…
O’Donnell + Tuomey in Conversation
8 May 2020
O’Donnell + Tuomey in Conversation8 May 2020
– Sheila O'Donnell and John Tuomey
…end this drawing was called ‘Composite Functions’. It derives from the idea that in mathematics, one function is the steppingstone to the next one. And as they say X is…
Ruskin: Fairy Tales
22 April 2020
Ruskin: Fairy Tales22 April 2020
…old woman, as being anyway out of the ordinary, a rather remarkable architect. It seemed to me, therefore, as if it might interest you tonight, if we were to consider…
The Garden of Earthly Delights
9 April 2020
The Garden of Earthly Delights9 April 2020
…Japanese, and so forth. [1] He appointed Gabriel Guevrekian designer of the Persian garden. The Armenian-born Guevrekian had grown up in Tehran before moving to Vienna to study architecture under…
Calculated Aesthetics
19 May 2020
Calculated Aesthetics19 May 2020
…in OASE #105: Practices of Drawing (2020), edited by Asli Çiçek, Bart Decroos, Jantje Engels and Veronique Patteuw; and designed by Karel Martens & Aagje Martens. To order a copy…
Scanning Shatwell
30 April 2020
Scanning Shatwell30 April 2020
…What is for certain is that the visual material that can be pulled out of the scans; part cut through drawing, part photograph, part render, are fascinating. Lucas Wilson, Zachary…
Drawing Culture at SOM New York
3 April 2020
Drawing Culture at SOM New York3 April 2020
…under Sherwood Smith for a college campus, we drew the site plans with thin pen outline for the buildings, colouring the roof-tops with white pencil. Roads were left blank, grass…
Take One: Henry ‘Jim’ Cadbury-Brown and Richard Wentworth on the Royal College of Art
27 March 2020
Take One: Henry ‘Jim’ Cadbury-Brown and Richard Wentworth on the Royal College of Art27 March 2020
…for Jim, who was the protagonist, that the building, despite its derisory budget, was accepted first by Darwin, then by the local planning authority, and later by generations of creative…
Michael Graves’ Rooftop Village (1985)
1 June 2020
Michael Graves’ Rooftop Village (1985)1 June 2020
…Doubilet, Thomas Fisher, David Morton, James Murphy), Progressive Architecture, 64, February 1983, 108-115, especially 114. Doubilet et al., ‘Conversation with Graves,’ 114. Of a different order is the symbolism that…
On William Kent (1771)
19 May 2020
On William Kent (1771)19 May 2020
– Horace Walpole
…one-liner, but with the remainder of his text on William Kent quoted in full; this is as Pevsner, in his unpublished Visual Planning and the Picturesque, apparently intended it to…
sketch landscape DMC