Movements of the Drawing Hand
8 December 2021
Movements of the Drawing Hand8 December 2021
…film, Álvaro Siza’s hand reveals a sort of bee dance: an implicit knowledge encoded in gestures; of mark-making and hovering balances; a register of spontaneous action ahead of thought. Keith…
The Rural Homes of Marcelo Ferraz and Francisco Fanucci
13 December 2021
The Rural Homes of Marcelo Ferraz and Francisco Fanucci13 December 2021
…da Rocha, and Carlos Millan; the Portuguese Fernando Távora and Álvaro Siza; and Alvar Aalto, Sverre Fehn, Luis Barragán, Hassan Faty, Geoffrey Bawa, Le Corbusier, and Marcel Breuer. Two institutional…
Between the Layers: Transparent Paper as a Modernist Architectural Design Environment
6 January 2022
Between the Layers: Transparent Paper as a Modernist Architectural Design Environment6 January 2022
…the process reversible, and literally, to see an architectural project as a pile of overlapping interrelated layers. Álvaro Siza, site plan with perspectives, Quinta Malagueira, Portugal, c. 1977. Pencil on…
Pan Scroll Zoom 17: Monadnock
1 September 2021
Pan Scroll Zoom 17: Monadnock1 September 2021
– Job Floris and Fabrizio Gallanti
…Siza and Oswald Mathias Ungers, for instance. We invite the students to understand their respective architectural languages, their specific architectural and formal strategies, by means of comparison. This process requires…
Diagrams: Hans van der Heijden in Conversation with Richard Hall
5 May 2021
Diagrams: Hans van der Heijden in Conversation with Richard Hall5 May 2021
…you to stay in control of the things that you make. As the opposite of that, no matter how much I admire Álvaro Siza, he once said that ‘good architects…
Hans Poelzig: Der Golem
11 March 2021
Hans Poelzig: Der Golem11 March 2021
…archive. Many gravitated towards the sketches of Álvaro Siza, however, I scurried towards the sketch above, excitement building with every step. Its effortless yet purposeful charcoal marks, a crescendo piece,…
Drawing is discovery (1953)
24 November 2020
Drawing is discovery (1953)24 November 2020
Álvaro Siza, Page 61, Caderno 31, 1979. Pen on paper, 300 × 210 mm. DMC 2528.61. For the artist drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase,…
S.A.U.L. 4th Year: De Rerum Natura / In the Manner Of
13 October 2020
S.A.U.L. 4th Year: De Rerum Natura / In the Manner Of13 October 2020
– Gerard Carty, Elizabeth Hatz and Fionn O'Leary
…in a state of change. Time is material in the archive, compressed, expanded. Drawings of Lebas, Barry, Labrouste, Giles Gilbert Scott, rub shoulders with Ponis, Pichler, Natalini/Superstudio, Fretton, Siza. Chloé…
In the Archive: Alejandro Carrasco Hidalgo
5 February 2024
In the Archive: Alejandro Carrasco Hidalgo5 February 2024
– Alejandro Carrasco Hidalgo
…few of the others: Cedric Price’s Battersea Station, Aldo Rossi’s Modena Cemetery and Teatro del Mondo, Álvaro Siza’s sketchbooks with multiple drawings for Malagueira and Bouça, John Hejduk’s Cannaregio and…
in the archive (project)