John Hejduk’s Bye House: An Object in the Landscape
29 June 2023
John Hejduk’s Bye House: An Object in the Landscape29 June 2023
– Stan Allen and Marina Correia
…is an abstract architecture in dialogue with painting—a ‘still-life architecture,’ to use Robert Slutzky’s term. The free-standing wall marks out a virtual picture plane against which the push/pull of sculptural…
Drawing from a Deep Well
22 September 2017
Drawing from a Deep Well22 September 2017
…Perception, since it was clear from my research that modern sculptors including Donald Judd, Robert Irwin, Richard Serra and Robert Smithson, revered this book. Patrick Lynch, Section sketch of mirror…
Sans Humour?
14 September 2018
Sans Humour?14 September 2018
…Petitot (1727–1801), Mascarade a la Grecque, 1771. Etching, 415 × 290 mm. DMC 2127. Giuseppe Roberto Martinenghi (1894–1970), Aedificare, Magister Caementariorum G. Botta, c.1930. Print, 248 × 170 mm. DMC…
Protected: Portfolio 1: Camp
19 November 2020
Protected: Portfolio 1: Camp19 November 2020
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La Casa Della Falsita
5 February 2020
La Casa Della Falsita5 February 2020
…and Robert Haussmann from Zurich; Robert Maria Stieg from Vienna; and Bruno Minardi, who hailed from the Rossi school in Venice but had the habit of hanging out with the…
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…
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…
Les Fêtes de Nuit (1937)
30 May 2022
Les Fêtes de Nuit (1937)30 May 2022
…(1937). We have added a group of gouache drawings by the architect René-André Coulon, made in the design phase for the same series of projects. Robert Chenevier, ‘La Technique des…
Behind the Lines 12
23 September 2019
Behind the Lines 1223 September 2019
…window openings for the stained-glass artist, and the other his ceiling plan. Hills shows it to Robert Bayne, he is hoping that as the firm undertake murals as well as…
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…
Learning from the tortoise
9 August 2019
Learning from the tortoise9 August 2019
– William Firebrace
…1978. Ink on paper. Then, in the 1960s, Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown based an entire theory of architecture on a large white duck building, constructed on Long Island…
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