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Architecten De Vylder Vinck Taillieu
07.09.2017
Architecten De Vylder Vinck Taillieu07.09.2017
…exhibition on one hand, but also to better reflect the way aDVVT works. Architecten De Vylder Vinck Taillieu, Studies for interventions, gta Exhibitions, ETH Zürich, 2015. Architecten De Vylder Vinck…
Drawing Research Platform, Somerset, 2023, ENAC Summer Workshop
01.11.2023
Drawing Research Platform, Somerset, 2023, ENAC Summer Workshop01.11.2023
– Alberto Johnsson, Arthur Masure, Daniel Nitsche, Toby Pullen and Alexander Turner
…Archive workshop led by Manuel Montenegro. Photo: Herve Laurendeau. Reflection by Alberto Johnsson, Daniel Nitsche and Alexander Turner Survey by Alberto Johnsson, Daniel Nitsche and Alexander Turner (detail). To decide…
Dugourc’s Playing Cards
14.09.2022
Dugourc’s Playing Cards14.09.2022
…be entirely reformulated in order to reflect the new principles of equality after the downfall of the monarchy. As a class of print, the playing cards reached a far wider…
The Cypress and the Arch
07.03.2025
The Cypress and the Arch07.03.2025
…task of rebuilding societies and cities in the aftermath of war. They look to situate questions of architecture after war within wider, currently expanding under- standings of repair and reconstruction,…
Make me Hyper-Real: Image Ethics and the Architectural Visualisation
05.03.2021
Make me Hyper-Real: Image Ethics and the Architectural Visualisation05.03.2021
…white linework defines a clear boundary between reality and the human form. This makes it clear to us that they are merely abstractions, perhaps even inventions: a fictional placeholder for how we…
Artists at Work
14.09.2018
Artists at Work14.09.2018
…applied to her focused collection of paintings, drawings, prints and photographs concerned with artists’ academies, studios and workshops, self-portraits and images of practitioners drawing or painting in ruins, gardens or…
Hexenhaus (2021) – Review
27.06.2022
Hexenhaus (2021) – Review27.06.2022
…build a Miesian house on a site adjacent to the factory, abandoned due to local regulations, an existing house (the Hexenhaus), sited nearby was purchased with a view to adapting…
Architecture in Archives: The Collection of the Akademie der Künste (2016) – Review
10.02.2023
Architecture in Archives: The Collection of the Akademie der Künste (2016) – Review10.02.2023
Archives, particularly architecture archives, are having a moment. Writers of postcolonial histories increasingly wrangle with their neatly preserved and selected records. Predominantly, documentary evidence under archival care formed the basis…
Alexander Brodsky
15.10.2016
Alexander Brodsky15.10.2016
Alexander Brodsky, Untitled, 2014. Unfired clay, 840 × 1750 mm. Courtesy the artist and Betts Project. There is someone behind Alexander Brodsky’s unfired clay facades. It might be a housekeeper…
Dance Dance Revolution
30.12.2018
Dance Dance Revolution30.12.2018
…Chausée d’Antin, where he would cover the house of his lover and future wife, Mademoiselle Anne-Victoire Dervieux, in arabesques. In 1785, Dervieux had asked Bélanger to update the lavish residence…
Owen Luder: Practice at Work
03.01.2023
Owen Luder: Practice at Work03.01.2023
…say, £500,000 in order to keep afloat and it becomes obvious, as the OP partners agree, that the right way of running a practice is of cardinal importance. The right…
Syon House and the Afterlife of Architectural Drawing
22.04.2022
Syon House and the Afterlife of Architectural Drawing22.04.2022
…of the developed surface by making contact with the world beyond the highly controlled decorative scheme of the architect would disrupt the order of the drawing and therefore appear to…
Peter Wilson in the Empire of Signs
22.05.2024
Peter Wilson in the Empire of Signs22.05.2024
…and stimulates. It is the regenerative water in which Sigfried Giedion placed hope in Mechanization Takes Command (1948) and also the non-technologised liquid that Ivan Illich would write of in his Bachelardian…
DMJ – A Storyboard for the Fun Palace
07.07.2025
DMJ – A Storyboard for the Fun Palace07.07.2025
…impact of modern life upon artistic production. It is held in the British Library’s Joan Littlewood Archive, within a folder of documents dated October 1964, when Theatre Workshop’s Oh! What a…
El Croquis 208: DOGMA familiar/unfamiliar 2002–2021 (2021): Review
29.11.2021
El Croquis 208: DOGMA familiar/unfamiliar 2002–2021 (2021): Review29.11.2021
…at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin. © Dogma. Communal Villa. © Dogma. Communal Villa. © Dogma. Communal Villa. © Dogma. It would be a mistake, however, to consider…
Commonplace
12.11.2018
Commonplace12.11.2018
…basis of drawings kindly lent by Butterfield to the great French polemicist. The Building News, detail, 1877. Newspaper. William Butterfield (1814–1900), ‘The Builder’, The House of the Society for the…
La Casa Della Falsita
05.02.2020
La Casa Della Falsita05.02.2020
Peter Wilson (1950), catalogue page from La Casa Della Falsita, Focus Furniture, Munich, 1981. The 1982 ‘Casa Della Falsita’ exhibition was decidedly under the English architectural radar. Held in Munich…
Drawing, Movement and Medium: Mark Dorrian in Conversation with Michael Webb, Episode 3
21.01.2019
Drawing, Movement and Medium: Mark Dorrian in Conversation with Michael Webb, Episode 321.01.2019
– Mark Dorrian and Michael Webb
…space in relation to the infinity of the vanishing point. I was wondering if you would say a few things about the transition between these projects because there are very…
Superstudio: Finding the Horizon
12.08.2021
Superstudio: Finding the Horizon12.08.2021
…what extent the detection of horizon line or vanishing points is automatic. Back then everything helped. In one image, for example, it seemed impossible to find the horizon line, or…
Re-presenting the Rococo
24.02.2021
Re-presenting the Rococo24.02.2021
…Michael is a key example of Fischer’s work and of the wider German rococo movement and there is no shortage of written and visual information available, at least in terms…
Trees Make A Plan
07.10.2020
Trees Make A Plan07.10.2020
…bring specimens close to the observer and to move into the field in order to study the lives of plants al vivo. This double vantage point structures sixteenth-century herbaria, in which…
DMJ – The Stereoautograph
06.12.2023
DMJ – The Stereoautograph06.12.2023
…Zeiss Archive in 2004, the Technical University of Hanover had to remove part of its roof in order to lift it out by crane. In the era of GPS and…
Analoge Architektur: Fire Station Project
08.12.2021
Analoge Architektur: Fire Station Project08.12.2021
…sensual. Daniel Studer with Analoge Architektur, preliminary interior studies, Fire Station Project, c.1986-7. Daniel Studer with Analoge Architektur, exterior study, Fire Station Project, c.1986-7. Notes Miroslav Sik, Analoge Architektur for…
PostDigital Collage: Naivety as an Ideo-aesthetic Technique
07.11.2024
PostDigital Collage: Naivety as an Ideo-aesthetic Technique07.11.2024
– Alejandro Carrasco Hidalgo
Dogma and Office Kersten Geers David van Severen, project for the New Administrative City, South Korea, 2005. Courtesy of the architects. It was 2005, a moment of crescent belief in technical progress and…
competition presentation Open Call: Storytellers, Observed