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biq: Revealing Construction
26.05.2021
biq: Revealing Construction26.05.2021
…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…
Place and Displacement: Rubbings from Architecture
12.04.2021
Place and Displacement: Rubbings from Architecture12.04.2021
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…
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…
E. S. Prior’s Architectural Modelling
02.08.2017
E. S. Prior’s Architectural Modelling02.08.2017
…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….
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…
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…
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…
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…
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
…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….
A Fragment of Wright’s Great City
16.07.2018
A Fragment of Wright’s Great City16.07.2018
…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…
‘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…
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…
Stirling at Stuttgart: Rear View / Up Views
15.06.2020
Stirling at Stuttgart: Rear View / Up Views15.06.2020
…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…
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…
Louis Kahn: The Importance of a Drawing (2021) – Review
10.02.2022
Louis Kahn: The Importance of a Drawing (2021) – Review10.02.2022
…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…
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
…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…
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…
Lauretta Vinciarelli: Homogeneous and Non-Homogeneous Grids
11.03.2021
Lauretta Vinciarelli: Homogeneous and Non-Homogeneous Grids11.03.2021
…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…
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…
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….
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