Survey: Le Corbusier, Roland Garros stadium
21 September 2021
Survey: Le Corbusier, Roland Garros stadium21 September 2021
Le Corbusier (1887–1965), site plan sketch of the Roland Garros stadium, Paris, 1958. Pencil on calque, 273 × 210 mm. DMC 1765. In July 1958, one day before Faisal II…
Imaginal Cloud Spaces
31 December 2019
Imaginal Cloud Spaces31 December 2019
…xxiii. Ibid. Yves-Alain Bois, ‘Metamorphosis of Axonometry’, DAIDALOS: Berlin Architectural Journal 1 (1981), p 49. Hooman Koliji, In-Between: Architectural Drawing and Imaginative Knowledge in Islamic and Western Traditions (Routledge, 2016), xxiii. Ray Lucas, Drawing Parallels:…
fala: wireframes
17 October 2022
fala: wireframes17 October 2022
– fala
…models built solely from lines. Single-line plans and sections are extruded to form a light envelope. Its colours dismantle the logic of a project, pointing out perimeters, repetitions, and hierarchies….
Freddie Phillipson ‘The Ulysses Project’ – Review
18 July 2022
Freddie Phillipson ‘The Ulysses Project’ – Review18 July 2022
…accurate and ‘bearers of meaning’ (Günter Bandmann). That is, the ‘epic’ finds its symbolic landscape in the everyday accoutrements of an average European city…or even below-average (Dublin was not Berlin,…
Geography of Hope: Adolfo Natalini and Superstudio
18 January 2023
Geography of Hope: Adolfo Natalini and Superstudio18 January 2023
…land left ‘unpolluted by design.’ Adolfo Natalini (1941–2020), Notebook 17, Quaderno Arizona. Preliminary sequence for the plates in ‘The Story of Meteorites’. DMC 2129.24–25. Read the article in full on nonsite.org….
W. R. Lethaby: The Builder’s Art and the Craftsman
24 October 2022
W. R. Lethaby: The Builder’s Art and the Craftsman24 October 2022
…material. W. R. Lethaby (1857–1931), drainage drawings for Avon Tyrrell, Bransgore, near Ringwood, Hampshire, for Lord Manners: downpipes on the south front. RIBA Collections. Against this malaise, Lethaby presents a…
Disinformation: Closed Circuit
30 June 2021
Disinformation: Closed Circuit30 June 2021
…August 2021. Find full details, here. Notes Ivan Chtcheglov, ‘Formulary for a New Urbanism’, Internationale Situationniste 1, October 1953. Friedrich von Schelling, Philosophie der Kunst, 1802. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cylinder Rudolf Arnheim, Radio,…
Neighbours in Space and Time: Grafton Architects at the Soane Museum – Review
25 January 2023
Neighbours in Space and Time: Grafton Architects at the Soane Museum – Review25 January 2023
…that rise out of it. George Bailey, No 13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields Section through the Dome, 1810. © Sir John Soane’s Museum, London. Grafton Architects, Section, The Marshall Building. ©…
In the Archive: Alejandro Carrasco Hidalgo
5 February 2024
In the Archive: Alejandro Carrasco Hidalgo5 February 2024
…2377.1. Adolfo Natalini (1941–2020), ‘restoration’ of the Erechtheion, from the New York sketchbook, 1969–1970. Ink on paper, 340 × 275 mm. the artist. DMC 2141.13. Superstudio (1966–1978), La Spezia School,…
Connor Street: Made by Many Hands
4 December 2023
Connor Street: Made by Many Hands4 December 2023
…the everyday realities of the project and, in the green text, the broader environmental issues incumbent on architects to address. The texts have been developed by Kieran from a talk first given during the Poetic Pragmatism symposium, organised…
Drawing Study Symposium: 28 & 29 April 2023, Shatwell Farm
19 December 2022
Drawing Study Symposium: 28 & 29 April 2023, Shatwell Farm19 December 2022
…Click here to receive updates about the journal. René Herbst (1891–1982), Exposition Internationale de la Rayonne, 1950. Paperboard, wood and plastic, painted, 65 × 650 × 65 mm. DMC 1469….
Architectural Research Quarterly: Plan
13 July 2018
Architectural Research Quarterly: Plan13 July 2018
Adolf Loos (1870–1933), plan and section, Tristan Tzara House, 1925. Ink on paper, 342 × 345 mm. DMC 2947.1. Volume 22, Issue 1 pp. 8–40 This issue of arq introduces…
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