Fontaine: Hide-and-Seek
1 November 2019
Fontaine: Hide-and-Seek1 November 2019
…a phenomenon of mid-18th-century Britain. Favoured by Robert Adam in his domestic commissions, the technique ‘became a way of turning architecture inside-out, so that internal rather than external elevations were…
Trees Move In
22 October 2020
Trees Move In22 October 2020
…University Press, 1978). In response Email to the Drawing Matter Editors from Robert Barnes, May 2021 Although Eisen worked hard to mediate the difference between timber and trees exposed in…
John Hejduk’s Axonometric Degree Zero
23 September 2019
John Hejduk’s Axonometric Degree Zero23 September 2019
…held at the Architectural League of New York, alongside paintings by Robert Slutzky. Hejduk and Slutzky shared a fascination with the paintings of Mondrian, and the Diamond Series transposed the…
Hans Hollein: From a Distance
7 April 2021
Hans Hollein: From a Distance7 April 2021
…a loss of scale, and above, all, an aesthetic experience. Robert Crawford is a student of Architecture and Sustainability at the University of Notre Dame. This text was entered into…
Growth or Composition? Colin Rowe to Louis Kahn
10 February 2022
Growth or Composition? Colin Rowe to Louis Kahn10 February 2022
…Robert Slutzky, who had accompanied Rowe to Kahn’s office), and ‘Neo “Classicism” and Modern Architecture I and II’ (1956–57), the latter of which would feature an incisive analysis of Kahn’s…
Montage-Entourage; Or The Politics Of The Seam
24 January 2022
Montage-Entourage; Or The Politics Of The Seam24 January 2022
The following text is a version of chapter three from Reality Modeled After Images: Architecture and Aesthetics after the Digital Image by Michael Young, published by Routledge © 2021. Available…
Giuliano Fiorenzoli: Because of Seeing Architecture (2023) – Review
8 February 2024
Giuliano Fiorenzoli: Because of Seeing Architecture (2023) – Review8 February 2024
…Zziggurat collective with Alberto Breschi and Roberto Pecchioli before gaining a scholarship to study at MIT.[3] In New York, he found another group of like-minded young architects: Steven Holl, Lebbeus…
Gowan on the English House
1 April 2020
Gowan on the English House1 April 2020
…for the furniture magnate Chaim Schreiber, James Gowan choses Robert Lorimer and Edwin Lutyens as his references. It is clear that he identifies with Lorimer particularly – another Scotsman, asked…
Hans Poelzig: Der Golem
11 March 2021
Hans Poelzig: Der Golem11 March 2021
…of built form. Click here to watch Der Golem (1920) Robert Wightman is a young practitioner in Dublin who is guest lecturing at the School of Architecture at the University…
Eisenman: House VI (1985)
21 May 2020
Eisenman: House VI (1985)21 May 2020
…on Five,’ 205-207, and Robert Stern and Jaquelin Robertson in ‘Five on Fove,’ 47, 50. Stern proclaimed himself a non-believer: ‘I do not believe that structure, no matter how ‘deep’,…
Pan Scroll Zoom 12: Elizabeth Hatz
18 May 2021
Pan Scroll Zoom 12: Elizabeth Hatz18 May 2021
…through drawing are the hallmarks of the studio. Luke Roberts, section through Cleeve’s Factory, Limerick. An observation in emotion and yet doggedly open to all sorts of detail, embracing the…
Hans Hollein & Spiritual Expression in Architecture
22 September 2023
Hans Hollein & Spiritual Expression in Architecture22 September 2023
– C.M. Howell
…cross as symbol. Register for full access to the catalogue here. – Eds. Robert Smithson (1938–1973), My House is A Decayed House, 1962. Photo-collage, pen, ink, gouache & watercolour on paper,…
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