Alternative Histories: OMMX on Adolfo Natalini
27 July 2019
Alternative Histories: OMMX on Adolfo Natalini27 July 2019
OMMX, Adolfo Natalini’s ‘manipulated postcard’ for an intervention in Graz showing ‘flooding in dry ice’, 2018. Styrofoam, greyboard, gesso, sand, 150 × 150 × 960 mm. Superstudio (1966–1978), ‘Flooding in…
Alternative Histories: Havana architectuur on Michael Webb
18 April 2019
Alternative Histories: Havana architectuur on Michael Webb18 April 2019
Havana architectuur, Michael Webb’s horizontal section of car ramp for Sin Centre, 2018. Laser-sintered polyamide, oak base, 1100 × 350 × 570 mm. Michael Webb (1937), plan of car ramps…
Alternative Histories: Flores i Prats Architects on Alberto Ponis
20 March 2019
Alternative Histories: Flores i Prats Architects on Alberto Ponis20 March 2019
Flores i Prats Architects, Alberto Ponis’ elevation of the Casa Scalesciani, 2018. Paper, 500 × 320 × 100 mm. Alberto Ponis (1933), elevation, Casa Scalesciani, Sardinia, 1977. Pencil and wash…
Witherford Watson Mann: Waiting Women
31 January 2017
Witherford Watson Mann: Waiting Women31 January 2017
Witherford Watson Mann, Waiting Women – Dartford Interchange Interior Perspective, 1999. Pencil and pastel on tracing paper, 840 × 420 mm. © Witherford Watson Mann Architects. ‘What’s it like?’: the…
Writing Prize 2020
29 September 2020
Writing Prize 202029 September 2020
…Braid Up by Cassandra Adjei Held Fast: SITE’s Ghost Parking Lot by Anna Renken Architectural Apparitions by Anahat Chandra Smudgy Logic: a Short Story by Aris Kafantaris To Measure a Croissant by Emily Priest Judging Panel Emma Craigie,…
Dominique Perrault Architecte
5 April 2018
Dominique Perrault Architecte5 April 2018
Dominique Perrault Architecte (1953), Developed Horizontal Wood Blades, Wall Covering, Pavilion Dufour, Château de Versailles, 2015. Digital drawing. © Dominique Perrault Architecte. Pavilion Dufour, Château de Versailles, Developed Horizontal Wood…
Shatwell Farm: A Step Up
6 July 2021
Shatwell Farm: A Step Up6 July 2021
…Shatwell Project, click here. Read more about the steps at Shatwell, alongside projects by Susanne Pietsch and Luis Tena Núñez, in Tony Fretton’s article ‘Practice / What next?’, published in Domus….
Building Desire: On the Barcelona Pavilion (2005)
16 March 2021
Building Desire: On the Barcelona Pavilion (2005)16 March 2021
…photography, and misinterpretation in his essay on Mies van der Rohe’s Brick Country House Project: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/9781118887226.wbcha121 Notes George Dodds, Building Desire: On the Barcelona Pavilion (New York & Abingdon [UK]:…
Superstudio’s Collage Chest: A Chance Machine
26 September 2022
Superstudio’s Collage Chest: A Chance Machine26 September 2022
…arbitrary and reveals a thorough understanding of the hippie’s own conscious strategy of refusal.’ Ross K. Elfline, ‘Superstudio and the “Refusal to Work”’, Design and Culture 8, no.1 (2016), pp.55–77….
Careful Crudeness
31 January 2024
Careful Crudeness31 January 2024
…to Alison Smithson. Alison and Peter Smithson, ‘The Stuff and Decoration of the Urban Scene’ in Ordinariness and Light: Urban Theories 1952–1960 and their Application in a Building Project 1963–1970 (Cambridge, MA:…
Avant-Garde as Method, Vkhutemas and the Pedagogy of Space, 1920 – 1930 (2020) – Review
12 April 2023
Avant-Garde as Method, Vkhutemas and the Pedagogy of Space, 1920 – 1930 (2020) – Review12 April 2023
…sets. According to Vladimir Krinsky’s four-point outline of the educational programme (1926), the word ‘form’ appears in every sentence, coupled to notions of surface, mass, volume, composition, and so forth. …
Aldo Rossi: Architecture and the City (1982)
11 March 2016
Aldo Rossi: Architecture and the City (1982)11 March 2016
– Peter Eisenman
Aldo Rossi (1931–1997), composition with Modena Cemetery, 1979. Sepia ink and gouache on paper, 712 × 1003 mm. © Eredi Aldo Rossi. The architectural drawing, formerly thought of exclusively as…
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