Fraser Stables: Remembering Architecture
6 September 2023
Fraser Stables: Remembering Architecture 6 September 2023
…A list of works is available on request from shatwellfarm@gmail.com. See more photographs from the series: www.fraserstables.com. Fraser Stables, Remembering Architecture, 2013–present. The Pleasures of Planting, photographed Eliel Saarinen’s library….
Wagnerschule
1 June 2015
Wagnerschule1 June 2015
…210 × 100 mm. DMC 2179.1. Emil Hoppe (1876–1957), Design for a church: sketch perspective, c.1902. Pencil, black ink and blue and green crayon on paper, 140 × 75 mm….
Historic England Image Archive
23 January 2023
Historic England Image Archive23 January 2023
…have five hundred examples. Cob wall; cat slide roof; concrete plinth; L- shape; four-storey; dormer; pebbledash; lean-to; almshouse; village shop; library; market; granary; ruin – whatever the imagination or the…
Fresh and Surprised
2 July 2020
Fresh and Surprised2 July 2020
…cast across the interface between the eastern park and the expanding urban settlement. By proximity, the mundane is dramatically juxtaposed, setting ‘men playing cards’, ‘fly-tipping’, ‘heron’, ‘community garden’, ‘Jenever’, ‘concrete…
François Cointeraux: the Architect of the ‘Agricultural Proletariat’
5 October 2023
François Cointeraux: the Architect of the ‘Agricultural Proletariat’5 October 2023
…– 70. Ibid., p. 64. Ibid., p. 61. Paula Lee, ‘François Cointeraux and the School of “Agritecture” in Eighteenth-Century France’, Journal of Architectural Education, 2013, Vol.60(4), pp. 44 – 5….
Josef Frank: Happy Accidentism
21 September 2019
Josef Frank: Happy Accidentism21 September 2019
…Josef Frank (1885–1967), 13 Fantasy Houses for Dagmar Grill (1–4), 1947. Ink on paper. Josef Frank Archive, Stockholm. Josef Frank (1885–1967), 13 Fantasy Houses for Dagmar Grill (5-9), 1947. Ink…
DMJ – Burning Drawing
6 June 2024
DMJ – Burning Drawing6 June 2024
…become text… (November 2019). Detail of laser-etched fragments salvaged from the wreckage of Chapter Four. Fig.4 Ariel’s survey – ‘a true reportory of the wracke’ (August 2021). Another ‘storm-within-the-text’, this time drawn…
Drawing on the Nolli Plan
1 May 2020
Drawing on the Nolli Plan1 May 2020
…2019. Coloured pencil on photocopy, 420 × 297 mm. Courtesy of the Author. Sheila O’Donnell (1953), drawing over Giambattista Nolli’s Nuova Topografia di Roma, Campus Martius, centro, 2020. 420 ×…
Drawing Conversations: Letters to Clients
26 October 2022
Drawing Conversations: Letters to Clients26 October 2022
…Volume 1: 1914–1948 (Thames & Hudson); Volume 2: 1950–1954 (Thames & Hudson); Volume 3: 1954–57 (AF MIT Press); Volume 4: 1957–64 (AF MIT Press). Preface written by Andre Wogenscky, an…
Dom Hans van der Laan: Drawing the Scottish Tartan
19 August 2019
Dom Hans van der Laan: Drawing the Scottish Tartan19 August 2019
…– translates as ‘to wear’, but also ‘to have’. Both relate to ‘being’. As van der Laan observed, ‘We are as we are dressed.’ [1] These early sartorial studies would also…
Where Words Fail
6 April 2020
Where Words Fail6 April 2020
– Cyril Babeev and Matt Page
…or nine rooms, and these rooms should be: a study (288sq.ft), one living room (414sq.ft), a lady’s sitting room (144sq.ft), a bedroom (216sq.ft), a child’s bedroom (216sq.ft), another child’s room…
Charles Jencks: Architect in the Jumping Universe
25 January 2022
Charles Jencks: Architect in the Jumping Universe25 January 2022
– Lily Jencks
…Notes Charles Jencks, George Baird (ed.), Meaning in Architecture (Barrie & Jenkins, 1970). Charles Jencks, The Language of Post-Modern Architecture (New York: Rizzoli, 1977). Ibid. As reiterated to the author…
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