The Clandeboye Drawings
27 October 2017
The Clandeboye Drawings27 October 2017
β Peter Wilson
…elevation, Artists’ Retreat, Clandeboye, 1984. Pencil on trace, 328 × 332 mm. DMC 2902.3.1. Peter Wilson, plan and elevation, Second Bridge, Clandeboye, 1984. Pencil on trace, 330 × 350 mm….
An Everyday Detail
2 June 2021
An Everyday Detail2 June 2021
β Priit JΓΌrimΓ€e
Representation of architectural design often focuses on a limited number of sources – artistic conceptual sketches and diagrams, dreamy computer-generated renders, or carefully curated photographs of the finished building. These…
Five Boxes
10 June 2015
Five Boxes10 June 2015
Michael Craig-Martin (1941), Five identical boxes with progression of lids in colours – not executed, 1969. Tape on graph paper, 440 × 570 mm. DMC 2038. Line drawing — drawing…
Studio Mumbai: Saatrasta-Mahindra Tape Drawing
14 January 2018
Studio Mumbai: Saatrasta-Mahindra Tape Drawing14 January 2018
Studio Mumbai, Saastrata-Mahindra Tape Drawing, 2013. Pencil and tape on wood, scale 1:1, 830 × 1850 × 15 mm. Courtesy the artist and Betts Project. DMC 3272. The idea of…
Origins in Translation
20 January 2020
Origins in Translation20 January 2020
β Mari Lending
…Nîmes, as Laugier never saw a Greek temple). Marc-Antoine Laugier, frontispiece of Marc-Antoine Laugier’s Essais sur L’architecture, second edition, c.1755. Ink on paper. The Courtauld Institute of Art. This image…
Pan Scroll Zoom 12: Elizabeth Hatz
18 May 2021
Pan Scroll Zoom 12: Elizabeth Hatz18 May 2021
β Elizabeth Hatz
…site room. https://vimeo.com/538596238 Videos from a review with Max Ahrent of ArkDes https://vimeo.com/538599317 Spring 2021: still full Covid lock-down, no chance at all to see my Irish students this term…
Netherfield Scroll Two
28 August 2018
Netherfield Scroll Two28 August 2018
β Michael Gold
…such a tube of ingeniously twisted and glued grey cardboard and white plastic caps; and the drawing was handed over the counter. The wait was called ‘Some-Day-My-Prints-Will-Come’, echoing Snow White’s…
Superstudio: Cinematography
30 January 2017
Superstudio: Cinematography30 January 2017
Superstudio, Frames 15–22 from Un Viaggio nelle Regioni della Ragione, 1966–1968. Ink and adhesive on trace. DMC 2130.15. It is distinctive that in Superstudio’s practice, the search for the means…
What does a drawing sound like?
20 July 2023
What does a drawing sound like?20 July 2023
β Brian Carter
…and Gianfranco Franchini. Continuous Production Line: U. 8. Patent, 1836, ‘Machine for Harvesting, Threshing, Cleaning and Bagging Grain.’ Constructed in the wilderness of Michigan in 1836, this earliest combine, harvesting…
36 Elevations
12 July 2021
36 Elevations12 July 2021
β Calum Storrie
Calum Storrie, 36 Elevations: 1. Stairs, 2020. Pencil sketch. Courtesy of the author. Calum Storrie, 36 Elevations: 1. Stairs, 2020. Pen and ink on found paper. Courtesy of the author….
Piranesi Unbound (2020): Review
19 August 2021
Piranesi Unbound (2020): Review19 August 2021
β Nicholas Savage
…91 mm. Princeton University Art Museum, 2014–15. (Right: verso) Fortunately, both authors are on much firmer ground in their subsequent chapters. Yerkes’ thoroughgoing survey of Piranesi’s usually-overlooked ‘vignettes’ (i.e., the…
Perry Kulper
14 February 2017
Perry Kulper14 February 2017
β Sophia Banou
…from two-dimensional mixed media drawings (Spatial Blooms: Proto-formal drawing, 2009), which propose themselves as ‘akin to twenty-first century versions of medieval maps’, to three-dimensional renderings (Spatial Blooms: Test Tube Berm, 2009), produced…
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