Space
27 April 2020
Space27 April 2020
…with the excitement of a twentieth-century spatial explosion (like the U.S. Pavilion at Expo ‘67 or the Matterhorn at Disneyland). Excerpted from Charles Moore, Dimensions: Space, Shape & Scale in Architecture (1977)…
Fronts and Faces
7 October 2022
Fronts and Faces7 October 2022
…others just don’t. Some are cute. A few resemble cats or giraffes. Basic elements of architecture are at play here: columns, doors, oversized windows, shutters, lintels, complex silhouettes, off-centred chimneys….
Remembered Space
22 April 2018
Remembered Space22 April 2018
Celia Scott (1947), Object-Space VI, 2015. Acrylic and spray paint on plywood, 500 × 400 mm. Courtesy of Celia Scott. Celia Scott (1947), Object-Space VIII, 2018. Acrylic and spray paint…
Dugourc’s Playing Cards
14 September 2022
Dugourc’s Playing Cards14 September 2022
…help in researching Dugourc’s card business. Depaulis, Cartes de la Révolution, p.20. Scott, ‘Chardin and the Art of Building Castles’, p.41. Dugourc and Jaume, Nouvelles cartes à jouer, p.2. Ibid….
Onto an Epicycle of Cones
30 July 2018
Onto an Epicycle of Cones30 July 2018
…drawing techniques of Guarino Guarini (1624–1683) set out in his posthumous treatise, Architettura civile, (1737). While some of the drawings from the series deal with the direct documentation of his orthographic drawings,…
Drawing with Rafael Moneo, Madrid 1984
14 March 2019
Drawing with Rafael Moneo, Madrid 198414 March 2019
Stan Allen (1956), Worm’s eye axonometric, left edge, Museum in Merida, 1980. 2H pencil on 20-gram Canson tracing paper. I arrived in Rafael Moneo’s Madrid office in early 1984. I…
Sketches from Algiers
2 August 2021
Sketches from Algiers2 August 2021
…Robin Nicholson was going to give us a crit and I liked Stirling’s Runcorn housing (heaven knows why). These out-of-place features didn’t survive in my final scheme, I’m pleased to…
Dogma: The Room of One’s Own
13 November 2017
Dogma: The Room of One’s Own13 November 2017
– Pier Vittorio Aureli and Martino Tattara
, Exhibition photo: Dogma, The Room of One’s Own, Chicago Architecture Biennial, 2017. Courtesy of Dogma. Dogma, Exhibition photo: Dogma, The Room of One’s Own, Chicago Architecture Biennial, 2017. Courtesy…
Parataxis
28 December 2017
Parataxis28 December 2017
…coffee, laughter and discussion. It was accompanied by at least one if not two dogs. S. Stewart, On Longing, Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection (Baltimore, 1984) p.153….
Permanence
18 April 2017
Permanence18 April 2017
Elizabeth Hatz (1953), plan and section combined, Passage at Hälleforsnäs Foundry, 2003–2004. Cast iron, 400 × 700 × 45 mm. Photo Gunnar Smoliansky. Drawing as adjuration (incantation) If architecture, like…
Gilles-Marie Oppenord
15 December 2017
Gilles-Marie Oppenord15 December 2017
…Kunstbibliothek, Berlin (Hdz. 2405=OZ90); Cooper Hewitt Museum, New York (1960.102); and Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal (DR1996:0013). 3. ‘My epitaph carved in marble’. See pages 2 (verso), 36 (verso), 59…
Ferdinando Galli Bibiena
19 May 2017
Ferdinando Galli Bibiena19 May 2017
– John Cooper
…courtyards, infinite hallways; columns cluster together in sheaves of pilasters surmounted by copious cornicing, volutes, urns, and writhing, prancing, gesticulating putti and caryatids. Ferdinando Galli Bibiena (1657–1743), Stage Set (recto),…
projection (axonometric isometric) presentation theatre interior DMC sketch