Gallaratese & Fagnano Olona (1976)
26 May 2020
Gallaratese & Fagnano Olona (1976)26 May 2020
…the walls of the courtyard will have the same large cross-mullioned windows that characterise the external facade. Aldo Rossi (1931–1997), composition with Modena Cemetery, 1979. Sepia ink and gouache on…
Shape
28 April 2020
Shape28 April 2020
…less likely to stir up concerns about the energy crisis than to recall a carefree childhood summer. And several patterns of mullions which may divide the same window opening might…
David K. Ross: Archetypes (2021) – Review and Excerpt
11 January 2022
David K. Ross: Archetypes (2021) – Review and Excerpt11 January 2022
…uses as a point of departure for her poetic contribution to this publication, was most literally realized in Mies van der Rohe’s life-size model for the Kroller-Muller House (1912–13) in…
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…
Heinz Isler Model
2 November 2022
Heinz Isler Model2 November 2022
– John Chilton and Paul Shepherd
…1964. The associated drawing on the website suggests this and looks like an early sketch, as it’s dated 14 July 1962. Isler installed vertical prestress (hidden by glazing mullions) at…
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,…
biq: Revealing Construction
26 May 2021
biq: Revealing Construction26 May 2021
…lend the house an almost abstract appearance. The ‘Standard Type’ forming a street. Lakerlopen, Eindhoven. Photo: © Stefan Müller. Source: www.biqarchitecten.nl/lakerlopen. The pitched roof and brickwork have a tactile, familiar…
The Project of Independence: Architectures of Decolonization in South Asia, 1947-1985 (2022) – Review
10 November 2022
The Project of Independence: Architectures of Decolonization in South Asia, 1947-1985 (2022) – Review10 November 2022
…Architectural Theory, and the Resident Director of Institute for Comparative Modernities at Cornell University. Notes Thordis Arrhenius, Mari Lending, Wallis Miller, J.Michael McGowan (eds.) Exhibiting Architecture (Lars Muller Publishers, 2014)…
Flores & Prats Sala Beckett International Drama Centre (2020): REVIEW & EXCERPTS
30 March 2021
Flores & Prats Sala Beckett International Drama Centre (2020): REVIEW & EXCERPTS30 March 2021
…measurements, and drawing everything that was still there in great detail: every melding, flashing, and mullion, every design on the tiles, it all interested us alike. We still didn’t know…
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…
Stan Allen
14 September 2021
Stan Allen14 September 2021
…New Terrain was published by Lars Müller in 2011, and his most recent book is Situated Objects, published by Park Books in 2020. Stan Allen’s Writer page on Drawing Matter…
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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