Thomas Chippendale and Ornament
13 January 2021
Thomas Chippendale and Ornament13 January 2021
Design for an architect’s table (previously attributed to Thomas Chippendale), c. 1720 – 1780. Pen and ink on laid paper, 184 × 197 mm. DMC 3200. ‘[Ornament] omitted at pleasure,’…
Alternative Histories: Tony Fretton Architects on Erik Gunnar Asplund
19 December 2018
Alternative Histories: Tony Fretton Architects on Erik Gunnar Asplund19 December 2018
Tony Fretton Architects, Erik Gunnar Asplund’s hillside elevation of Stennäs, 2018. Wood, 670 × 440 × 170 mm. Erik Gunnar Asplund (1885–1940), Stennäs (Asplund Summer House), Sarunda, Sweden, 1937. Pencil…
Take One: Architects on Drawing
23 February 2021
Take One: Architects on Drawing23 February 2021
– Editors
…range of people. The following short audio clips bring together four voices – Denys Lasdun, Richard Wentworth, Graham Morrison and Michael Wilford – on making drawings. https://soundcloud.com/the-british-library/denys-lasdun-models?in=the-british-library/sets/oral-history-clip-bank https://soundcloud.com/the-british-library/richard-wentworth-drawing?in=the-british-library/sets/oral-history-clip-bank https://soundcloud.com/the-british-library/graham-morrison-drawing?in=the-british-library/sets/oral-history-clip-bank https://soundcloud.com/the-british-library/michael-wilford-drawing?in=the-british-library/sets/oral-history-clip-bank…
Sébastien Marot’s Taking The Country’s Side (2019): Review & Excerpt
19 April 2021
Sébastien Marot’s Taking The Country’s Side (2019): Review & Excerpt19 April 2021
Taking The Country’s Side, Agriculture and Architecture by Sébastien Marot, Lisbon Architecture Triennale, Lisbon, Polígrafa, Barcelona, 2019. Review On the occasion of the publication of this book, and the associated…
S.A.U.L. 4th Year: De Rerum Natura / In the Manner Of
13 October 2020
S.A.U.L. 4th Year: De Rerum Natura / In the Manner Of13 October 2020
– Gerard Carty, Elizabeth Hatz and Fionn O'Leary
…the centre of the city of Limerick, addressing its rooms, borders, hills, waters, structures, traces, trajectories, trees, shadows, lines, proportions, characters, walls, vegetation, contraptions, and so on. They were asked…
Mussolini and the Tomb of Augustus in the Spring of 1935
20 November 2018
Mussolini and the Tomb of Augustus in the Spring of 193520 November 2018
…of period hell-bent on a practice of ideologised and aestheticised evacuation. Notes Piano Regolatore di Roma (Milano-Roma: Treves-Treccani-Tumminelli, 1931), 22. Vittorio Morpurgo, “La sistemazione Augustea,” Capitolium 12 (1937), 147. Morpurgo, cf. 145-158. Morpurgo, 151….
Post Otto Wagner
30 May 2018
Post Otto Wagner30 May 2018
…Bank to Post-Modernism, 2018. MAK Exhibition Hall. © MAK/Georg Mayer. MAK Exhibition View. POST-OTTO WAGNER From the Postal Savings Bank to Post-Modernism, 2018. MAK Exhibition Hall. © MAK/Georg Mayer. Related…
Herzog & de Meuron
23 February 2018
Herzog & de Meuron23 February 2018
Herzog & de Meuron, Level 17 floorplan with mechanical ductwork of the main concert hall, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, 2001–2016. © Herzog & de Meuron. Herzog & de Meuron, Technical…
A.L.T. Vaudoyer
4 May 2017
A.L.T. Vaudoyer4 May 2017
Antoine-Laurent-Thomas Vaudoyer (1756–1846), Preliminary Study, ‘Maison d’un Cosmopolite’, inscribed: ‘Maggio 1782’. Ink, pencil and washes on paper, 115 × 242 mm. DMC 1460. Antoine-Laurent-Thomas Vaudoyer’s Maison d’un Cosmopolite is part…
Ruskin: Fairy Tales
22 April 2020
Ruskin: Fairy Tales22 April 2020
Hector Horeau (1801–1872), Competition drawing for an exhibition hall on the Champs Elysées, c.1853. Pencil, pen, ink and watercolour on laid paper, laid on board, 465 × 625 mm. DMC…
Dalibor Vesely: Shared Horizons
8 August 2022
Dalibor Vesely: Shared Horizons8 August 2022
– Biba Dow
…Pencil on tracing, 296 x 420 mm. DMC 3418.2. Dalibor Vesely (1943-2015), sketch, 1993. Pencil on tracing, 420 x 296 mm. DMC 3418.3. Dalibor Vesely (1943-2015), sketch, 1993. Pencil on…
Archives, or Ardor
26 October 2017
Archives, or Ardor26 October 2017
– Iris Moon
Charles Percier (1764–1838) and Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine (1762–1853), Study for a Fireplace, c. 1810. Watercolour, gouache and ink on paper, 450 × 340 mm. DMC 1085 Butter, fire, ardor: Roberto Calasso tells…
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