The Garden of Earthly Delights
9 April 2020
The Garden of Earthly Delights9 April 2020
…Agnès Fuzibet and Gérard Monnier, La Villa Noailles: Rob Mallet-Stevens (Marseille: Editions Parenthèses, 1990), p 62. Dorothée Imbert, The Modernist Garden in France (New Haven, CT, and London: Yale University Press, 1993), p 135….
Postcard from Nowhere (Counterswimming)
8 April 2020
Postcard from Nowhere (Counterswimming)8 April 2020
…Academy of Arts, London, 12 January–31 Mar 2019. See: www.drawingmatter.org/madelon-vriesendorp-and-rem-koolhaas-at-van-rooy-gallery-1980/ J M W Turner, Helvoetsluys (‘Helvoetsluys; – the City of Utrecht, 64, going to sea’), 1832. Tokyo Fuji Art Museum….
Modelling the Metropolis: The Architectural Model in Victorian London (2023) – Review
15 June 2023
Modelling the Metropolis: The Architectural Model in Victorian London (2023) – Review15 June 2023
…S. Prior who, curiously, argued that they were for architects, not clients: ‘it is dangerous to show what is so near the truth’. A chapter about London model-makers concentrates on…
On Cornices, Part I
17 June 2019
On Cornices, Part I17 June 2019
…6 -lat. Schrift-) – [8], Zentralarchiv Berlin. Repr. In Goerd Peschken, ed. Das Architektonische Lehrbuch (Munich/Berlin, 1979; 2001), pp 21–22. Christoph Freiherr von Wolzogen, Entwürfe (Bauzeichnungen) für das Landhaus Tillebein in Züllchow. 1806….
Superstudio: Monument Interrupted
31 August 2020
Superstudio: Monument Interrupted31 August 2020
Adolfo Natalini (1941–2020), page from sketchbook 11: the Continuous Monument, Florence, 1969. Pen on paper (sketchbook page), 175 × 250 mm. DMC 2084.19. The collages of Superstudio’s ‘Continuous Monument’ have…
Aldo Rossi: ‘Shards’ and Smooth Surfaces for an Architecture of Longue Durée
3 April 2023
Aldo Rossi: ‘Shards’ and Smooth Surfaces for an Architecture of Longue Durée3 April 2023
…Fellini-Satyricon’, in Fellini-Satyricon: L’immaginario dell’antico, ed. Raffaele De Berti, Elisabetta Gagetti, Fabrizio Slavazzi (Milan: Cisalpino, 2009), pp.59-92. ‘Aldo Rossi’, Controspazio, no. 4 (December1974): pp.36-42, p.42. See also op. cit., ‘The…
A Bath for Immortality
24 April 2024
A Bath for Immortality24 April 2024
…is a combination of many things: memory, desires, signs of a language; it is a place of exchange […] these exchanges […] involve words, desires, and memories.’[4] Superstudio (1966–1978), ‘Flooding…
Entering the Imperial Palace
16 March 2022
Entering the Imperial Palace16 March 2022
John Martin (1789–1854), The Fall of Nineveh, 1829. Mezzotint etching, 575 x 865 mm. © The Trustees of the British Museum. ‘What a subject for John Martin!’ exclaimed a passer-by, as…
Letter of Authorisation to Discuss Late Ottoman Archive Drawings as Operational Images
6 February 2023
Letter of Authorisation to Discuss Late Ottoman Archive Drawings as Operational Images6 February 2023
– Ecem Arslanay and Mina Gürsel Tabanlıoğlu
…quantifiable. Elevation drawing of Ergani Smeltery. Orthogonal projection is lost in some parts,. Source: T.R. Directorate of State Archives, Ottoman Archives, Plan/Project/Diagram (PLK. p.), Document no: 3066. Three-dimensional drawing of…
Adolphe Appia: ‘Luminous – Very Luminous’
27 November 2019
Adolphe Appia: ‘Luminous – Very Luminous’27 November 2019
…1880–94, ed Marie L Bablet-Hahn (Lausanne: L’Age d’homme, 1983), p 39. Margaret Naumburg, ‘The Dalcroze Idea: What Eurhythmics Is and What it Means’, The Outlook (17 January 1914), p 127. Appia, ‘Theatrical…
This Was Tomorrow: Reinventing Architecture 1953–1978
13 March 2016
This Was Tomorrow: Reinventing Architecture 1953–197813 March 2016
– Markus Lähteenmäki, Manuel Montenegro and Nicholas Olsberg
…mm. DMC 2327.06. Constant (Constant Anton Nieuwenhuys), New Babylon, no.6, 1963. Lithographs, 400 × 380 mm. DMC 1472.6. Ugo La Pietra (1938), La Cellula Abitativa, 1972. Pen, ink, pencil and…
Capitol or Capital?
2 September 2021
Capitol or Capital?2 September 2021
– Martin Pawley
…commentary – on architecture, architects and contemporary society – ought to be replayed to readers now on a continuous, salutary, loop. Again and again, one reads something that skewers a…