Hélène Binet: The Intimacy of Making, Three Historical Sites in Korea (2021): Review
25 October 2021
Hélène Binet: The Intimacy of Making, Three Historical Sites in Korea (2021): Review25 October 2021
…of Making, Three Historical Sites in Korea (2021) by Hélène Binet is published by Lars Müller Publishers. Copies of the publication can be purchased here. Helen Thomas is Reviews Editor…
William Heath Robinson ‘Tightening the Green Belt’
26 November 2020
William Heath Robinson ‘Tightening the Green Belt’26 November 2020
…and the virgin turf. Heath Robinson draws quirks, not quoins, manners, not mullions. Faithful draughtsmanship is not the aim. ‘ROUGH SKETCH’ the cartoonist has written in the bottom-right corner. The joke’s…
ETH Zurich: Casting the Cornice in Ticino
8 January 2020
ETH Zurich: Casting the Cornice in Ticino8 January 2020
– Emma Letizia Jones and Erik Wegerhoff
…Alberto Felici (SUPSI), with Carina Kirsch (Kunstgiesserei St. Gallen) Students: Lorena Bassi, Gabriel Eggenschwyler, Ella Esslinger, Guy Keller, Mirjam Kupferschmid, Thorben Müller, Guillaume Pause, Patricia Pervan, Jonas Schüpbach, Moritz Schmidt,…
DMJ – Template and Talisman
13 March 2024
DMJ – Template and Talisman13 March 2024
…2005 the pavilion was rebuilt in the grounds of the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo. There a second version of the seat can now be seen, centred on an opening, offering…
O.M. Ungers: Drawing a metaphor
17 May 2024
O.M. Ungers: Drawing a metaphor17 May 2024
– Diogo Lopes and Fanny Noël
…and Oswald Matthias Ungers, The City in the City. Berlin: A Green Archipelago, ed. by Florian Hertweck and Sébastien Maron (Baden, Switzerland: Lars Müller, 2013). Fanny Noël and Diogo Lopes…
Alternative Histories: Christ & Gantenbein on Louis Kahn
16 February 2019
Alternative Histories: Christ & Gantenbein on Louis Kahn16 February 2019
…of the poché. The coal-coloured stains lend the drawing the quality of a painting. Their roughness contrasts with the minuscule dots suggesting the mullions of the facade. It’s a sketch on…
Simplification
6 May 2011
Simplification6 May 2011
– Niall Hobhouse and Nicholas Olsberg
…we see Mies telling us nearly everything about the transparency and composure of a projected high rise simply by softly tracing the lines of its mullions, and then pressing the…
Architectural anxiety
28 September 2011
Architectural anxiety28 September 2011
– Niall Hobhouse and Nicholas Olsberg
…had left Behrens’ office in 1912, taking with him the commission for the Kröller-Müller house in Holland. Are we to understand the inscription as a rapprochement, or as a triumphant…
Geoffrey Bawa: Drawing from the Archives (2023) — Review
8 March 2024
Geoffrey Bawa: Drawing from the Archives (2023) — Review8 March 2024
…History at University College Dublin. Shayari de Silva, ed., Geoffrey Bawa: Drawing from the Archives (2023) is published by Lars Müller Publishers. Copies of the book can be purchased here. …
Jesús Vassallo’s Epics in the Everyday (2019): Review & Excerpt
14 June 2021
Jesús Vassallo’s Epics in the Everyday (2019): Review & Excerpt14 June 2021
…61. This characterisation is indebted to John Rohrbach’s description of an American lineage of photographic realism going back to Paul Strand, Robert Frank, and Walker Evans, which finds continuity in…
In the Archive: Laugier, Eisen, Boulogne, Petitot, Percier, Dumont and Hadid
22 March 2022
In the Archive: Laugier, Eisen, Boulogne, Petitot, Percier, Dumont and Hadid22 March 2022
…Notes Michael Bryan, ‘Eisen, Charles Dominique Joseph’, in Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical: Volume I A-K, ed. Robert Edmund Graves (London: George Bell & Sons, 1886), p.459;…
Materia 3: Red Oxide
30 September 2022
Materia 3: Red Oxide30 September 2022
– Gordon Shrigley
…parody both German naturism and the cartoon monumentality of Paul Troost and Ernst Sagebiel. James Stirling, Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, 1984. Photograph: W. H. Muller, undated. Collection of the author. These two…
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