DMJ – Sir John Soane’s Office
9 September 2024
DMJ – Sir John Soane’s Office9 September 2024
…mentor that the first lecture drawing produced would be taken from this work. Soane Museum Archives: DB/11: dates in May 1806 with the first entry for a lecture drawing on…
Design Drawings Damage Atlas (2023)
15 April 2024
Design Drawings Damage Atlas (2023)15 April 2024
A lesson in not drinking coffee when working with drawings. Collection Nieuwe Instituut, c/o Pictoright Amsterdam 2023, G. TH. Rietveld Archive, RIET40.2. Photographer: Johannes Schwartz. Snap, crackle, pop. Oh, that…
Josep Maria Jujol: Ribbons with streamers everywhere
25 January 2024
Josep Maria Jujol: Ribbons with streamers everywhere25 January 2024
– Juan Mercadé Brulles, Jesús Esquinas-Dessy and Isabel Zaragoza
…the Jujol Chair at UPC, allowing for the publication of drawings belonging to the Jvjol Archive deposited in the Graphic Archive of the Barcelona School of Architecture (Universitat Politècnica de…
Sir John Soane’s Museum: Bound Legacy
9 February 2021
Sir John Soane’s Museum: Bound Legacy9 February 2021
…legacy. Fundamental to the house-museum is the idea of safeguarding one’s legacy through a tailored archive; this archive can be understood as the primary documents, such as his correspondence with…
Álvaro Siza: Sense Making
22 September 2017
Álvaro Siza: Sense Making22 September 2017
…to Shatwell in 2012. In the same year Stephen Taylor Architects completed the Cowshed and Hugh Strange Architects completed the Archive building. Well known for his seminal Quinta da Malagueira housing estate…
Behind the Lines 12
23 September 2019
Behind the Lines 1223 September 2019
…Heaton, Butler & Bayne for 90 years one of the foremost stained-glass companies in England, closes. Basil’s widow, Simone, is thwarted in her ambition for the firm’s archive of cartoons…
Seeing, and Disbelieving
2 March 2020
Seeing, and Disbelieving2 March 2020
…became separated from the main body of the architect’s archive – but both fortuitously now rest in the same collection. The Leicester sheet emerged from the carefully sorted archive of…
Stirling at Stuttgart: Rear View / Up Views
15 June 2020
Stirling at Stuttgart: Rear View / Up Views15 June 2020
…the grass along Konrad Adenauerstrasse. I worked for quite a while on the detailed design and setting out of the Le Corbusier-at-Weissenhof influenced Archive building; controlling its curvilinear geometry, refining…
Manufacturers Trust Bank
9 July 2024
Manufacturers Trust Bank9 July 2024
…Parks is an independent historian specialising in architectural archives. In 2017, she retired as Curator of Drawings and Archives at the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library at Columbia University….
Frank Lloyd Wright at Drawing Matter
25 June 2024
Frank Lloyd Wright at Drawing Matter25 June 2024
– Editors and Nicholas Olsberg
…to his legacy. Despite Wright’s determination to maintain the integrity of the archive, a number of drawings left the studio or estate over the years. Any collection is supplementary to…
Peter Wilson and Mark Dorrian in conversation – Part 2
22 July 2024
Peter Wilson and Mark Dorrian in conversation – Part 222 July 2024
– Mark Dorrian and Peter Wilson
…MD: I presume that as a national library there are major archival functions to deal with? PW: There’s a huge archive—the whole thing is built around a five-level bombproof box…
Fragmentary Notes on Unclaiming the Life of a Drawing
13 October 2023
Fragmentary Notes on Unclaiming the Life of a Drawing13 October 2023
– Bahar Avanoğlu
…of a drawing archive in permanent construction was intriguing as it also referred to a potential to un-claim the temporal realm of a drawing. ‘Reciting’ a drawing from an archive,…
Teaching (project) DMC sketch projection (axonometric isometric)