Where to Find a Drawing of a Swiss Gold Vault
28 February 2024
Where to Find a Drawing of a Swiss Gold Vault28 February 2024
…J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye: ‘If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is…’ J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (London: Penguin Modern…
Eurolandschaft Dérive
1 April 2018
Eurolandschaft Dérive1 April 2018
…events, each a monad: air conditioner, dog monument, private house, department store, fun park, vending machine, temple. Peter Wilson (1950), Eurolandschaft – A Dérive, 1998. Mixed media, 185 × 240…
Excerpt: Shadow Places
15 March 2021
Excerpt: Shadow Places15 March 2021
…forward—backward; male—female; life—death; order—chaos; reliability—fickleness; love—hate; collaboration—competition; day—night; peace—war… Poets, politicians, bigots… find or try to assert correspondences (such is the stuff, and treachery, of metaphor) between the extremes: ‘white…
CP138 Gordon Matta-Clark: Readings of the Archive (2020) – Review
7 May 2022
CP138 Gordon Matta-Clark: Readings of the Archive (2020) – Review7 May 2022
…a more fully grounded idea of Matta-Clark’s spatial underpinnings. Hila Peleg focuses on the rough cuts and out-takes from four films, Food (c.1971-3), Splitting (1974), Day’s End and Conical Intersect…
Alvar Aalto’s city
1 November 2017
Alvar Aalto’s city1 November 2017
…centre. Alvar Aalto (1898–1976), plan, Design for an administrative and cultural centre for the city of Jyväskylä, 1972. Print, 1200 × 1200 mm. DMC 2846.2. The project, like most such…
Mies: The Double or Panoramic Structure of the Perspective
24 October 2016
Mies: The Double or Panoramic Structure of the Perspective24 October 2016
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886–1969), Courthouse study, c.1935. Pen and India ink on wove paper, laid on board, 215 × 298 mm. DMC 2052. What is compelling about the…
OMA in Scheveningen
22 July 2020
OMA in Scheveningen22 July 2020
…– mummified emblem – primitive seasonal architecture – constructivist tower – new objectivity prototype – strip architecture – patio (housing) – terraced (housing) – humanised 70s slabs on commercial platform…
William Heath Robinson ‘Tightening the Green Belt’
26 November 2020
William Heath Robinson ‘Tightening the Green Belt’26 November 2020
…Claude Lorrain. William Heath Robinson (1872–1944), Tightening up the Green Belt, c.1935–1947. Pencil, pen and ink on wove paper, 383 × 280 mm. DMC 2248. These aren’t strictly architectural drawings….
Sweet Disorder and the Carefully Careless: Ideas, Faces and Places (2022) – review
31 October 2022
Sweet Disorder and the Carefully Careless: Ideas, Faces and Places (2022) – review31 October 2022
– Eric Parry and Robin Webster
…Architectural Archive, 2022. © James Tuomey. Interior of Scott Studio, Edward Jones, Alan Colquhoun, James Stirling, Eduardo Paolozzi, Françoise Choay. © Peter Cook/VIEW. Scott studio, Belsize Park, London.© Peter Cook/VIEW….
Conen Sigl Architekten: Drawing in retrospect
9 April 2017
Conen Sigl Architekten: Drawing in retrospect9 April 2017
– Maria Conen
…ordering of elements like colour and furniture, for example, is important. Pierre Chareau, Maison de Verre, drawing by Julia Schultes and Anna Wülleitner, 2016. © Conen Sigl Architekten. Kazuo Shinohara,…
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