Writing Prize 2020: Smudgy Logic β A Short Story
30 November 2020
Writing Prize 2020: Smudgy Logic β A Short Story30 November 2020
β Aris Kafantaris
…motor cortex and repurposes it for spatial thinking. A fascinatingly inefficient allocation of computation resources. But there is more to it. It does not just seem to be auxiliary computation….
Reality Modeled After Images: Architecture and Aesthetics after the Digital Image (2022) β Review
24 February 2024
Reality Modeled After Images: Architecture and Aesthetics after the Digital Image (2022) β Review24 February 2024
β Liam Ross
…conventions that negotiate between different ways of thinking.[2] Like Gothic cathedrals, they argue that communities of practice are held together less by shared ways of thinking—by a common episteme—more by…
The Wessex Project: Thomas Hardy, Architect: Part II
21 December 2022
The Wessex Project: Thomas Hardy, Architect: Part II21 December 2022
…social media, Photoshop, Derrida; Roland Barthes’ ‘complete madness of photography’ (surely meant here in comparison to ‘Restoration’s fakery’); ‘Phantasmagoria’ and staged illusions (mentioned in Walter Benjamin’s seminal Arcades Project essay);…
Doodles: Stirling Wilford and Associates, 1984β2000
12 October 2021
Doodles: Stirling Wilford and Associates, 1984β200012 October 2021
β Marco Iuliano
…It is in collaboration with Drawing Matter, the 20th Century Society and the British School at Rome. Curator: Marco Iuliano Assistant Curator: Alicia Tymon-McEwan Research Associate: Davide Landi …
Re-presenting the Rococo
24 February 2021
Re-presenting the Rococo24 February 2021
β David Valinsky
…of quantity. At the start, therefore, this study was considered as an experiment in method and representation rather than research, I saw the exercise as a process of passively recording a building that has been recorded before. The results were intended to provide more, and better,…
Pan Scroll Zoom 13: Tatiana Bilbao
1 June 2021
Pan Scroll Zoom 13: Tatiana Bilbao1 June 2021
β Tatiana Bilbao and Fabrizio Gallanti
…Commons’, Yale School of Architecture, Spring 2021. Vicky Achnani, ‘The Kitchen’, ‘Lost Commons’, Yale School of Architecture, Spring 2021. FG: When you are engaged with communities, do you and your…
Louis Kahn: The Importance of a Drawing (2021) β Review
10 February 2022
Louis Kahn: The Importance of a Drawing (2021) β Review10 February 2022
β Stan Allen
…architect as a composer (‘Truly his greatest act is that of composing and not designing’), and Part V of the book goes into detail on the theme of composition. David…
Between the Layers: Transparent Paper as a Modernist Architectural Design Environment
6 January 2022
Between the Layers: Transparent Paper as a Modernist Architectural Design Environment6 January 2022
β Fabio Colonnese
…reproducing master works, a process through which students would learn the techniques of notable precedents. The analysis is complemented by a concurrent examination of the role of transparent paper within…
Materia 4: Brick
10 January 2023
Materia 4: Brick10 January 2023
β Gordon Shrigley
…to lose a vast array of compositional strategies and semiotic potential. There are certainly worthy and notable examples of either approach, however the question of how to design a modern…
Adolphe Appia: βLuminous β Very Luminousβ
27 November 2019
Adolphe Appia: βLuminous β Very Luminousβ27 November 2019
β Ross Anderson
…to Germany, where he finished off his studies in Dresden in 1888. Although his education was roaming, his passionate devotion to the work of the imperious German composer Richard Wagner…
PRINT READY DRAWINGS: COMPOSITE, LAYERS, AND PASTE-UPS, 1950-1989
7 February 2024
PRINT READY DRAWINGS: COMPOSITE, LAYERS, AND PASTE-UPS, 1950-19897 February 2024
11 November 2023 – 4 February 2024, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles Curated by Sarah Hearne, with curatorial assistance and research by Arianna Borromeo and Lauren Arika…
One Small Sketch for Mankind
13 January 2020
One Small Sketch for Mankind13 January 2020
β Stephen Bayley
…were reputations made, and Loewy was a genius at reputation-management. He was, with Henry Dreyfuss and Walter Dorwin Teague, a pioneer ‘design consultant’, opening his studio in New York in…
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