Stories from Architecture: Behind the Lines at Drawing Matter
13 December 2021
Stories from Architecture: Behind the Lines at Drawing Matter13 December 2021
β Adrian Forty, Niall Hobhouse and Philippa Lewis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zN7scnCCJjo&t=344s This film was recorded in the Drawing Matter archive on the afternoon of Friday 28 November. It records a conversation between Philippa Lewis, Adrian Forty and Niall Hobhouse, about…
21 January, in 8.44 / Out 8.16
21 January 2017
21 January, in 8.44 / Out 8.1621 January 2017
…Finsterlin, Fuller, Jungmann, La Pietra, Lautner, Maerkli, Mies, Percier, Poelzig, Price, Rossi, Sangallo, Schinkel, Sironi, Siza, Stirling, Superstudio, Webb, and van Hee, among others. In 08:44 / Out 20:16 was the inaugural…
Readymades Belong to Everyone
23 November 2018
Readymades Belong to Everyone23 November 2018
…built. Aldo Rossi (1931–1997), Sketch, Beach Hut, 1980. Pen, ink, pencil and crayon, and printed numbering on paper, 540 × 387 mm. DMC 2289. Aldo Rossi, Prototype for Cabina, 1981,…
Home Futures
7 August 2018
Home Futures7 August 2018
…made up ‘yesterday’s tomorrow’. Walter Pichler (1936–2012), Concept, Projekt: TV – Helm, 1968. Pencil and coloured crayon on wove paper, 300 × 349 mm. DMC 2849. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Zsko9tL7ag The Design Museum…
Aldo Rossi: the First Sketch and the Final Drawing
25 November 2020
Aldo Rossi: the First Sketch and the Final Drawing25 November 2020
β Andrea Leonardi
…companies, engineers ect. expect more: plans, sections, tech specifications, details, lists of materials, blah blah blah… costs. Months of work, that sometimes we did at night when he was away,…
Fabric Object:Β Diana Agrest and Mario Gandelsonas
27 June 2024
Fabric Object:Β Diana Agrest and Mario Gandelsonas27 June 2024
β Stan Allen, Beatriz Colomina, Michael Meredith, Jesse Reiser and Mark Wigley
…Pre-Post-Structuralist desires (think Barthes, Saussure, Kristeva, Lacan, etc..) brought into Architecture, ideas like Language as a Model (and Speech as a Model and Text as a Model,) Dialectical Opposition, Semiotics,…
The Work of Ernest and Esther Born: Models for the City House
18 November 2022
The Work of Ernest and Esther Born: Models for the City House18 November 2022
β Nicholas Olsberg
…designs for a Model City House, for an Exhibition at San Francisco Museum of Art, 1937. DMC 2320.8r. Ernest Born (1898–1992), photograph of model, from a collection of 12 pieces…
The Zilsel Thesis: A Review of Strata: William Smithβs Geological Maps (2020): Review
4 May 2021
The Zilsel Thesis: A Review of Strata: William Smithβs Geological Maps (2020): Review4 May 2021
β Stan Allen
…employed anatomy. ‘These superior craftsmen,’ Zilsel writes, ‘invent, experiment, dissect.’ The most accomplished of them, such as Leonardo da Vinci, he identifies as ‘artist engineers,’ who ‘constructed lifting gears, earthworks,…
Denise Scott Brown ‘From Soane to the Strip’
1 September 2023
Denise Scott Brown ‘From Soane to the Strip’1 September 2023
…views into the city’s low-income districts. I discovered, for example, that neighbours working to improve their block would paint the curb-stones white—one told me, ‘it’s like putting on lipstick’. But…
Nicholas Grimshaw
5 April 2018
Nicholas Grimshaw5 April 2018
Nicholas Grimshaw (1939), Arthur Phillip Vertical High School, Sydney, 2017. Digital drawing, 500 × 670 mm. DMC 2909.8. This axonometric of the Arthur Phillip High School illustrates the very inner…
Paolo Soleri
22 February 2017
Paolo Soleri22 February 2017
β Tim Abrahams
Paolo Soleri (1919–2013), Cosanti Poster, 1958–1963. Numbered art print. DMC 2027r. Over an advertisement for a series of workshops in the Arizona desert in 1979 ran the legend: ‘Soleri is…
Building as Drawing: the Cowshed (2021) at Shatwell Farm
7 July 2023
Building as Drawing: the Cowshed (2021) at Shatwell Farm7 July 2023
β Helen Thomas
…on 27 and 28 April 2023. More about the symposium, and other films and written papers, can be found here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YK4JHP0lBYc Abstract I propose to begin with a specific building…
agriculture symposium april 2023 (series)