DMJ – From Landscape to Mapscape: Robert Smithson’s Maps
15 November 2022
DMJ – From Landscape to Mapscape: Robert Smithson’s Maps15 November 2022
…ecology. Download the full article as a printable PDFDownload DMJournal–Architecture and Representation No. 1: The Geological Imagination Edited by Mark Dorrian and Kurt Forster ISSN 2753-5010 (Online) ISBN (forthcoming) About…
Mies van der Rohe: Clarity as the Aim
17 April 2024
Mies van der Rohe: Clarity as the Aim17 April 2024
…the composition of elements in accordance with certain rules. These two terms should be compared to another two that are also used erroneously as synonyms: ‘complicated’ and ‘complex’. The complicated…
Writing Prize 2020: Drawing People
23 September 2020
Writing Prize 2020: Drawing People23 September 2020
…in an accessible format. By encouraging people to define themselves as a ‘cut-out’ scale, they aim to raise visibility of themselves within the architectural community. (https://www.escalalatina.com/quienes-somos/) Vector_Vault works to diversify…
‘I chose a distant meadow’: The House that Neutra Built
20 March 2020
‘I chose a distant meadow’: The House that Neutra Built20 March 2020
…adroitly commodified for rich Californians by Neutra was evidence of nothing less than Kunstbolschewismus. It was an architecture of cosmopolitan, elitist, Jewish Communists. So what a pleasant irony that in 1940 von…
The Architecture of Nothingness: Analysing Frank Lloyd Wright’s Unity Temple
12 April 2021
The Architecture of Nothingness: Analysing Frank Lloyd Wright’s Unity Temple12 April 2021
…– space not walled in now but more or less free to appear.’ ‘In Unity Temple you will find the walls actually disappearing; you will find the interior space opening…
Peter Wilson in the Empire of Signs
22 May 2024
Peter Wilson in the Empire of Signs22 May 2024
…projects at www.drawingmattercollections.com. Peter Wilson, ‘Ninja Comfortable House, The Electronic Metropolis’ (1989), entry for the Shinkenchiku Residential Design Competition. Mixed media print with hand-colouring, 845 × 595 mm. DMC 3117.1….
Jaume Mayol / TEd’A Arquitectes: Drawn Closer
28 May 2020
Jaume Mayol / TEd’A Arquitectes: Drawn Closer28 May 2020
– Sarah Handelman and Jaume Mayol
…constructive elements that form the perimeter. The perspectives and partial elevations give a sense of material and atmospheric qualities. The transparent sheets even reveal a number of failed tests, and…
Learning from the tortoise
9 August 2019
Learning from the tortoise9 August 2019
…thin membrane, and an actual tortoise – heavy, slow, dense. It is a slight enough architectural proposal, but the beginning of a testudinidal trail to be followed at an appropriately…
L’architecture des réalités mises en scene: (re)construire Disney
28 October 2024
L’architecture des réalités mises en scene: (re)construire Disney28 October 2024
…is known as l’Entrepôt Lainé. Entrepôt means warehouse, Lainé comes from Joseph Louis Joachim Lainé, a minister of Louis XVIII, who commissioned it. That Lainé came from a family of…
Connor Street: Made by Many Hands
4 December 2023
Connor Street: Made by Many Hands4 December 2023
…by David Sheard and his team, an excellent contractor but not a specialist, as simply as all the many floor slabs they’d made before. Cube tests were provided to Structure…
Le Corbusier: The ‘Open hand’ as an expression of freedom?
2 February 2023
Le Corbusier: The ‘Open hand’ as an expression of freedom?2 February 2023
…game whose goal is individual freedom’. [3] In the fourth volume of his Œuvre complète in 1946, he poses the question: ‘Contemporary disaster or complete spatial freedom?’. [4] And, in…
The Italian Job: Anthony Salvin, Sir John Benson and the Royal Cork Yacht Club, Cóbh
27 October 2021
The Italian Job: Anthony Salvin, Sir John Benson and the Royal Cork Yacht Club, Cóbh27 October 2021
…drawing of the eastern façade are roughly punctured by the point of a compass, and the paper appears to be inferior. As Matthew Wells has shown, [16] Salvin and his…
The Pursuit of Gothic
10 November 2021
The Pursuit of Gothic10 November 2021
…Gothic was English and felt too passionate a commitment to the idea to look objectively at the evidence. Christopher Wren’s suggestion that it derived from Saracenic architecture and came to…
Ulmer House Extension Proposal: Baumschlager & Eberle
12 September 2022
Ulmer House Extension Proposal: Baumschlager & Eberle12 September 2022
…practicing architect today. This drawing simply brings me back to that feeling. Download the original 2G #11: Baumschlager & Eberle article here.Download Notes Emanuel Christ, Christoph Gantenbein, Victoria Easton, More…
Paul László: Hertz Fallout Shelter
31 August 2020
Paul László: Hertz Fallout Shelter31 August 2020
…but that was no barrier for him. Hertz had taken part in viable atomic research, in addition to donating a considerable amount of money to the research effort. He was…
PostDigital Collage: Naivety as an ideo-aesthetic technique
7 November 2024
PostDigital Collage: Naivety as an ideo-aesthetic technique7 November 2024
…trend, they might prefer to do something else… Notes Sam Jacob, ‘Architecture Enters the Age of Post-Digital Drawing’, Metropolis, March, 2017 <https://metropolismag.com/projects/architecture-enters-age-post-digital-drawing/ > [accessed 4 September 2024], and Mario Carpo,…
Architecture’s Mirror Stage
26 February 2021
Architecture’s Mirror Stage26 February 2021
…Gunnar Birkerts and Associates, National Library of Latvia, Riga, c.1989. Black and blue ink sketches on tracing paper with marker colouring. Gunnar Birkerts papers, BL003562, Bentley Historical Library, University of…
Visualizing the Renaissance Worksite and the problems of graphic translation
17 January 2024
Visualizing the Renaissance Worksite and the problems of graphic translation 17 January 2024
– Jarne Geenens and Elizabeth Merrill
…challenged by their intrinsic ambiguity. Whereas today even the most basic prefabricated construction comes with a fat how-to manual, how did the far more complex Opusculum machines communicate practical information…
Aux Citoyens Membres de La Commune attachés à la commissions des services publics
7 September 2018
Aux Citoyens Membres de La Commune attachés à la commissions des services publics7 September 2018
…and transcription of Horeau’s commentary, see Françoise Boudon and François Loyer, Hector Horeau: 1801–1872 (Paris: Centre d’Etudes et de Research Architecturales [C.E.R.A], 1972), p. 126. [3] For a more complete biography of…
Power & Public Space 5: Mark Wallinger – State Britain
20 July 2022
Power & Public Space 5: Mark Wallinger – State Britain20 July 2022
– Matthew Blunderfield and Mark Wallinger
…1km radius around parliament within which unauthorised protests are prohibited. This protest exclusion zone happens to run right through the middle of Tate Britain, where Wallinger faithfully reconstructed Haw’s encampment,…
Architectural Covers: A Site of Design
7 February 2024
Architectural Covers: A Site of Design7 February 2024
…would redesign the adjacent Corsi House project for public housing and a community centre funded by the NYC Housing Authority. He described this office as a ‘kind of commune where…
DMJ – Grids and Squared Paper in Renaissance Architecture
14 February 2024
DMJ – Grids and Squared Paper in Renaissance Architecture14 February 2024
…a key moment in the rise of the grid as a proportional system that is posed against—but is also complementary to—both medieval and Vitruvian compositional procedures. After tracing the several…
A Fragment of Wright’s Great City
16 July 2018
A Fragment of Wright’s Great City16 July 2018
…shared passion for the Romantic philosophers that brought Wright and his companion Mamah Borthwick Cheney together, and their decision to move to Europe in 1909 was motivated as much by…
Daria’s Aria
23 April 2020
Daria’s Aria23 April 2020
– Sarah Handelman
…‘Italian Style in the Cinema’. The issues featured hand-painted covers overflowing with flowers, paintings and open skies, and inside Guarnati commissioned the very best of Italian contributors – among them…
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