Yona Friedman: Space-chain Structures
11 January 2018
Yona Friedman: Space-chain Structures11 January 2018
‘Proteinic structures’, ‘proteinic chains’, ‘space chains’ and ‘iconostase’ are different names for similar structures, proposed and varied over the years by Yona Friedman. [1] They originally have in common a…
Studio Mumbai: Saatrasta-Mahindra Tape Drawing
14 January 2018
Studio Mumbai: Saatrasta-Mahindra Tape Drawing14 January 2018
Studio Mumbai, Saastrata-Mahindra Tape Drawing, 2013. Pencil and tape on wood, scale 1:1, 830 × 1850 × 15 mm. Courtesy the artist and Betts Project. DMC 3272. The idea of…
Better with Sun from West: US Embassy Moscow, The Commons
5 February 2018
Better with Sun from West: US Embassy Moscow, The Commons5 February 2018
Carlos Diniz (1928–2001), Embassy of the United States, Moscow, The Commons, c.1976. Felt-tip Pentel on trace, 455 × 765 mm. © Estate of Carlos Diniz. DMC 2967.8. In an interview…
WilkinsonEyre
28 March 2018
WilkinsonEyre28 March 2018
WilkinsonEyre, X-Ray Isometric Projection, Battersea Power Station, 2017. BIM model. DMC 2909.12. This drawing presents a snapshot of the BIM model from the northern end of Battersea Power Station. Combined…
Carlos Diniz: United States Embassy, Moscow
14 February 2018
Carlos Diniz: United States Embassy, Moscow14 February 2018
Carlos Diniz (1928–2001), Embassy of the United States, Moscow, c.1976. Felt-tip Pentel on trace, 460 × 780 mm. © Estate of Carlos Diniz. DMC 2967.6. The Commons Carlos Diniz (1928–2001),…
Tony Fretton: Lisson Gallery 1
27 February 2018
Tony Fretton: Lisson Gallery 127 February 2018
Tony Fretton (1945), Lisson Gallery 1, 84-7-1, 1984. Pen and ink on paper, 105 × 150 mm. DMC 2895.5.40. 84-7-1 is a singular image, a drawing of Lisson 1 seen…
Louis Le Vau: Château de Meudon
1 March 2018
Louis Le Vau: Château de Meudon1 March 2018
– Basile Baudez, Alexandre Cojannot and Alexandre Gady
…d’architecte au XVIIe siècle, Paris, 2017. This drawing by Le Vau is on loan to Dessiner pour Batir, on view at the Archives Nationales, Paris from 13 December 2017–12 March 2018….
AL_A: V&A Exhibition Road Quarter
5 March 2018
AL_A: V&A Exhibition Road Quarter5 March 2018
AL_A, Making visible the invisible, above ground, 2017. Digital print. DMC 2909.9.1. AL_A, Making visible the invisible, below ground, 2017. Digital print. DMC 2909.9.2. Farshid Moussavi’s brief for the Royal…
R. Norman Shaw
11 March 2018
R. Norman Shaw11 March 2018
…31 letters from Shaw still preserved in the church’s archives is that rare piece of evidence, an architect’s first thoughts about his intentions. In January 1876 he wrote to F….
A. W. N. Pugin
13 March 2018
A. W. N. Pugin13 March 2018
A. W. N. Pugin (1812–1852), Sketch, Interior of St David’s Church, Pantasaph, Flintshire, 1851. Pen and ink on blue writing paper. DMC 2727.3. In 1846 Viscount Feilding (later 8th Earl…
Behind the Lines 4
28 March 2018
Behind the Lines 428 March 2018
Angelier (attrib.), Three Perspective Drawings for an Estate of Villas, Streatham, London: Sketch No. 1 – View as supposed to meet the eye on the entrance from main road from…
Behind the Lines 3
7 February 2018
Behind the Lines 37 February 2018
– Philippa Lewis
George Coke, Topographical view, the wall and trees of London Smallpox Hospital, oldbath Fields, Clerkenwell, London, 1796. Pencil, black ink and grey wash on paper, 168 × 280 mm. DMC…
Extracts: Women Writing Architecture DMC elevation civic & municipal public space behind the lines (series) creative writing