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biq: Revealing Construction
26.05.2021

biq: Revealing Construction26.05.2021

– Neil Middleton

…practice who explicitly espouse their interest in construction is biq, a Rotterdam practice headed by Rick Wessels and until 2014 Hans van der Heijden, who now continues to explore the theme…

detail drawing matter writing prize 2020

Place and Displacement: Rubbings from Architecture
12.04.2021

Place and Displacement: Rubbings from Architecture12.04.2021

– Sam van Strien

Sam van Strien, American Electric Power: Place & Displacement, 2017. Charcoal rubbing, laser-cut engraving, tyvek, plywood, 1820 × 2380 mm (each). The process of making a rubbing transcends the traditional…

art practice drawing matter writing prize 2020

Stirling & Gowan: The Isle of Wight House
21.07.2021

Stirling & Gowan: The Isle of Wight House21.07.2021

– James Gowan, J. M. Richards, Laurent Stalder, James Stirling and Ellis Woodman

…defeated by a builder being frightened by their very novelty into putting up his tender in order to be on the safe side. Kitchen boiler, Isle of Wight House, 1955–1958….

DMC plan section domestic

The Beaux-Arts Tradition
29.04.2021

The Beaux-Arts Tradition29.04.2021

– Basile Baudez and Maureen Cassidy-Geiger

…under the authority of the École des Beaux-Arts of Paris, which judged all regional competitions. Among the offshoots were schools in Rouen, Rennes, Lille and Lyon. The Concours and the…

plan section elevation competition education

E. S. Prior’s Architectural Modelling
02.08.2017

E. S. Prior’s Architectural Modelling02.08.2017

– David Valinsky

…E. Mallows to The Builder, ibid. p. 26. 13. Letter from E. Newton to The Builder, ibid. p. 26. 14. Letter from F. T. W. Goldsmith to The Builder, ibid. p. 26. 15….

sketch presentation domestic housing

Pan Scroll Zoom 5: Andrés Jaque
16.12.2020

Pan Scroll Zoom 5: Andrés Jaque16.12.2020

– Fabrizio Gallanti and Andrés Jaque

…the pencil nor to rub too hard with the eraser, in order to play with a wider palette of greys rather than just black or white. I consider design needs…

Pan Scroll Zoom (series)

Alternative Histories: De Vylder Vinck Taillieu on Michael Graves
31.01.2019

Alternative Histories: De Vylder Vinck Taillieu on Michael Graves31.01.2019

De Vylder Vinck Taillieu, Michael Graves’ elevation of French & Company, 2018. Painted timber, 370 × 320 × 220 mm. Michael Graves (1934–2015), French & Company, New York, 1978. Pencil…

alternative histories (project) DMC

The Poetry of Concrete
17.06.2024

The Poetry of Concrete17.06.2024

– Lina Bo Bardi

…a child I used to go to Bordighera, on the border with France, Nice, Cannes. Sometimes I would be taken to Abruzzi to visit my maternal grandfather. He was a…

theatre sketch plan elevation detail furniture & object design culture industry & infrastructure

A Civic Utopia Exhibition
08.10.2016

A Civic Utopia Exhibition08.10.2016

…Enlightenment’s confidence in reason, measure and knowledge, both symbolically (as an imaginary temple to art, knowledge, and reason rises amidst the disorder of the medieval town), ideologically (in the consolidation…

plan health & leisure section urban form elevation public space presentation theatre civic & municipal interior culture a civic utopia (exhibition) exhibition DMC garden

S.A.U.L. 4th Year: De Rerum Natura / In the Manner Of
13.10.2020

S.A.U.L. 4th Year: De Rerum Natura / In the Manner Of13.10.2020

– Gerard Carty, Elizabeth Hatz and Fionn O'Leary

…Facing architecture in the Anthropocene gradually erodes the understanding of the city and nature as two separate entities. We are well beyond resorting to simplifying dichotomies, finding ourselves inside an intricate weave…

plan section survey Teaching (project) DMC

L’architecture des réalités mises en scene: (re)construire Disney
28.10.2024

L’architecture des réalités mises en scene: (re)construire Disney28.10.2024

– Fabrizio Gallanti

…scene: (re)construire Disney, open until January 2025. L’architecture des réalités mises en scene: (re)construire Disney Exhibition in arc en rêve – centre d’architecture in Bordeaux, 2024-25. Curator: Saskia Van Stein….

DMC exhibition design presentation exhibition

A Fragment of Wright’s Great City
16.07.2018

A Fragment of Wright’s Great City16.07.2018

– Nicholas Olsberg

…Professor Wagner, of Vienna, a great architect’. With a gracious nod to the impact of Louis Sullivan, he would go on to describe Wagner as ‘the greatest native force at…

DMC sketch elevation publication civic & municipal urban form public space

‘ONE’ — A Workshop at Drawing Matter
05.02.2026

‘ONE’ — A Workshop at Drawing Matter05.02.2026

– Charles Batach, Fabrizio Gallanti, Youssef Khobaiz, Marina Lathouri, Katerina Papanikolopoulos, Roberto Rodriguez and Freny Shah

…Van Zuid James Gowan, East Hanningfield  Aldo Van Eyck, Four Tower House  Louis Kahn, Kansas City Tower Álvaro Siza, Malagueira (Cupola) Exercise: Captioning Establish a linear sequence (from 1 to…

Teaching (project) DMC

Architecten De Vylder Vinck Taillieu
07.09.2017

Architecten De Vylder Vinck Taillieu07.09.2017

– Jan De Vylder

…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…

DMC sketch detail exhibition

Stirling at Stuttgart: Rear View / Up Views
15.06.2020

Stirling at Stuttgart: Rear View / Up Views15.06.2020

– John Tuomey

…picked up from his time working with John Miller. Evenings were loud with Schaad’s selection of Rolling Stones and Bob Marley on his reel-to-reel tape recorder. I know its only Rock…

record autographicals (editorial project) projection (axonometric isometric) culture

Forced Migrations, Barriers and Vanishing Asylums
13.07.2021

Forced Migrations, Barriers and Vanishing Asylums13.07.2021

– Deanna Petherbridge

…for example, or immersive theatrical events is much promoted by cultural apparatchiks under the rubric of ‘relational aesthetics’. [1] These participatory desires are embedded in the powerful dominance of current…

art practice drawing as metaphor (series)

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…

survey Teaching (project)

Dugourc’s Playing Cards
14.09.2022

Dugourc’s Playing Cards14.09.2022

– Iris Moon

…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…

Louis Kahn: The Importance of a Drawing (2021) – Review
10.02.2022

Louis Kahn: The Importance of a Drawing (2021) – Review10.02.2022

– Stan Allen

…Merrill’s previous collaborations with Lars Müller, Louis Kahn: Drawing to Find Out. Any doubts I might have had vanished when I unpacked the bulky package that arrived a few days…

projection (axonometric isometric) public space construction drawing plan section

DMJ – The Field of Mars: The Mother of All Conspiracies
06.10.2025

DMJ – The Field of Mars: The Mother of All Conspiracies06.10.2025

– Adam Jasper

…or just the announcement of the lottery result. The obelisk in the foreground is older, much older, than the Palace, and is known by many titles that refer to its…

memorial & monument religion urban form DMJ 3 – Storytelling

The Cypress and the Arch
07.03.2025

The Cypress and the Arch07.03.2025

– Bohdan Kryzhanovsky

…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

– Daniel Innes

…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…

DMC presentation humour & satire

Lauretta Vinciarelli: Homogeneous and Non-Homogeneous Grids
11.03.2021

Lauretta Vinciarelli: Homogeneous and Non-Homogeneous Grids11.03.2021

– Rebecca Siefert

…Press, 1986), p.158. Ibid. Jacques Derrida, ‘Semiology and Grammatology: Interview with Julia Kristeva’, in The Routledge Language and Cultural Theory Reader, edited by Lucy Burke, Tony Crowley and Alan Girvin…

theoretical & imaginary urban form DMC projection (axonometric isometric) competition

Alexander Brodsky
15.10.2016

Alexander Brodsky15.10.2016

– Marie Coulon

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…

art practice theoretical & imaginary DMC

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