Black Airground
23 December 2016
Black Airground23 December 2016
β Jeffrey Shaw
Eventstructure Research Group (1968–1979), Black Airground: Folded imprint for exhibition Pneu Show at Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, 19 Nov – 22 Dec, 1968 (folded). Print and mixed media, 188…
fala: collages
25 November 2022
fala: collages25 November 2022
β fala
…built work. Collages slowly became the ‘enemy’ we created ourselves, a quixotic windmill of sorts. Its possibilities were exhausted. The method had to be questioned and reinvented. Today, a collage…
Fabric Object: Diana Agrest and Mario Gandelsonas
25 July 2024
Fabric Object: Diana Agrest and Mario Gandelsonas25 July 2024
β Darell Wayne Fields, Anda French, Tessa Kelly, Paul Lewis and Michael Meredith
…projects: Typological Morphing, Park Square, Boston, Massachusetts, 1979 and Urban Fragments, Building 1, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1978 through Anda French’s, Darell Wayne Field’s, Tessa Kelly’s and Paul Lewis’s reflections. Diana Agrest and Mario Gandelsonas, Typological…
Architecture summer school
6 March 2023
Architecture summer school6 March 2023
…2023 25 August – 29 August 2023 Tutors Andrew Clancy, Sakiko Kohashi, Nana Biamah-Ofosu, Alex Gore, Laura Evans, Vera Bannwart, Elle Bytautaite, Jan Zachmann, assisted by Stella Ford. Organised by…
The Animated Wall: A Fragile Vigour
14 March 2024
The Animated Wall: A Fragile Vigour14 March 2024
β Saar Meganck
…on 27 and 28 April 2023. More about the symposium, and other films and written papers, can be found here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgdCrA61IXw A drawing is not an artefact of closed thinking. In…
Fontaine: Hide-and-Seek
1 November 2019
Fontaine: Hide-and-Seek1 November 2019
β Iris Moon
…Sophie Dupuis ou la couleur’, in Garric, Jean-Philippe, d’Orgeix, Émilie and Thibault, Estelle (eds), Le Livre et l’architecte, INHA/Mardaga, Wavre, 2011, p. 41. ibid., p. 44. www.artcurial.com/fr/lot-pierre-francois-leonard-fontaine-pontoise-1762-paris-1853-dessinmaquette-projet-en-trois [accessed 17 May 2019]….
The Hidden Horizontal. Cornices in Art and Architecture: Exhibition Review
18 October 2021
The Hidden Horizontal. Cornices in Art and Architecture: Exhibition Review18 October 2021
β Cammy Brothers
…narrates its beginnings. Charles-Dominique-Joseph Eisen (1720–1778), Frontispiece, Marc-Antoine Laugier’s Essai sur l’architecture, c.1754. Pen and ink and grey wash on paper, 210 × 147 mm. DMC 1240. Another noteworthy theme…
San Rocco
20 June 2017
San Rocco20 June 2017
β Helen Thomas
…Stirling, especially could explain an entire project with a single drawing.’ John Hejduk (1929–2000), Project A, 1969. Offset lithograph print, 465 × 465 mm. DMC 2303.a10. The San Rocco editorial team propose…
Eric Gill On Designing War Graves (1919)
11 May 2021
Eric Gill On Designing War Graves (1919)11 May 2021
β Eric Gill
…the Imperial War Graves Com– mission by Lieut. -Colonel Sir Frederic Kenvon, K.C.B., Director of the British Museum (H.M. Stationery Office, 3d. net) From the collection: These three drawings, roughly…
The Story of the Pool (1978)
19 June 2020
The Story of the Pool (1978)19 June 2020
β Rem Koolhaas
…so bland, so rectilinear, so unadventurous, so boring; there were no historical allusions; there was no decoration; there was no … shear, no tension, no wit – only straight lines, right angles…
Aitchison / Prendergast
30 December 2016
Aitchison / Prendergast30 December 2016
β Helen Thomas
George Aitchison (1825–1910), Designs for the interior decoration of 9 Chesterfield Gardens, London, for Henry, Lord Leconfield: elevation of the morning room with door and chimneypiece, 1881. © RIBA Collection….
Physical & Digital Drawing
19 April 2021
Physical & Digital Drawing19 April 2021
β Reuben Roberts
…1985. AutoCAD 2.18. This has not always been the case, there was, for a time, an etymological disconnection. Architects were not ‘drawing’ but ‘constructing’ on the computer as the computer…