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Lauretta Vinciarelli: Homogeneous and Non-Homogeneous Grids
11.03.2021
Lauretta Vinciarelli: Homogeneous and Non-Homogeneous Grids11.03.2021
…Press, 1986), p.158. Ibid. Jacques Derrida, ‘Semiology and Grammatology: Interview with Julia Kristeva’, in The Routledge Language and Cultural Theory Reader, edited by Lucy Burke, Tony Crowley and Alan Girvin…
Pan Scroll Zoom 17: Monadnock
01.09.2021
Pan Scroll Zoom 17: Monadnock01.09.2021
– Job Floris and Fabrizio Gallanti
…wider audience. The more interesting question is how much of the past should resonate? Both Sandor Naus, the other co-founder of Monadnock, and I studied at an academy of fine…
Drawing the Curtain: Entangling rendering and theatrical space
02.02.2021
Drawing the Curtain: Entangling rendering and theatrical space02.02.2021
…make things more complicated still, digital drawing tools have now evolved to disguise themselves almost without detection. They can render the effects of lenses, they can render the lens itself,…
Learning from the Tortoise
09.08.2019
Learning from the Tortoise09.08.2019
…it arrives sooner than the hare – or according to the even older paradox of Zeno it always arrives before the mighty runner Achilles. Slowness is usually seen as a…
Poetry and Architecture (2023) — Review
11.08.2023
Poetry and Architecture (2023) — Review11.08.2023
…perhaps columns of soldiers marching towards the vanishing point of a no-man’s land.’[19] An isometric does not, of course, have a vanishing-point; and, by extruding block solids through the voids…
Zünd-Up’s Great Vienna War of Dreams
14.03.2025
Zünd-Up’s Great Vienna War of Dreams14.03.2025
…On June 28, 1969, the four members of the Viennese collective Zünd-Up presented their student project, The Great Vienna Auto-Expander, for Karl Schwanzer’s studio at the TH Wien.[2] Their proposal envisioned a monumental…
Archives, or Ardor
26.10.2017
Archives, or Ardor26.10.2017
…worry if Agni is destroyed, since he is then in that yonder orb.’ Every construction is temporary, including the fire altar. It is not a fixed object, but a vehicle….
Tree Speech
07.11.2020
Tree Speech07.11.2020
…Drawing Matter would like to thank the author and the journal’s editors for allowing us reproduce the essays on www.drawingmatter.org. To order a copy of Log 49, click here. In…
Painting Architecture in Early Renaissance Italy
05.06.2025
Painting Architecture in Early Renaissance Italy05.06.2025
…not exist in Renaissance culture—at least until the advent of the paragone debate. Accordingly, Lupi ‘aims to reorient the discussion away from perspective and pictorial space in order to emphasise artists’ engagement…
Resistance and the ‘Architecture of Pessimism’: John Hejduk’s House for the Inhabitant who Refused to Participate
05.08.2024
Resistance and the ‘Architecture of Pessimism’: John Hejduk’s House for the Inhabitant who Refused to Participate05.08.2024
…his outsider position, working predominantly through architectural drawings rather than buildings.[2] In this way, the project stands as a self-narration, which I find a most incredible tool for architecture, and…
Alexander Brodsky: The Shed
18.05.2018
Alexander Brodsky: The Shed18.05.2018
Alexander Brodsky (1955), accompanying letter from Alexander Brodsky to Niall Hobhouse. DMC 2997.1. Alexander Brodsky (1955), Design for The Shed, 15 Biennale Di Venezia, 2016. Fibre tipped pen, ink and…
Alternative Histories: EM2N on Alexander Brodsky
08.07.2019
Alternative Histories: EM2N on Alexander Brodsky08.07.2019
EM2N, Alexander Brodsky’s three plans, 2018. Polyester cube, light base, 185 × 177 × 275 mm. Alexander Brodsky (1955), Three Plans, 2016. Pencil on tracing paper, 485 × 320 mm….
Fernand Pouillon’s Survey of the Abbey of Le Thoronet
17.05.2021
Fernand Pouillon’s Survey of the Abbey of Le Thoronet17.05.2021
…books, is his constant search for order in architecture, order as the backdrop, the setting for everyday life. The Cistercian order, to which the protagonist monk-master builder belongs, lived by…
Elliott Glushak vs. The City of New York
27.01.2021
Elliott Glushak vs. The City of New York27.01.2021
…builder wants emphasized, and the overall effect which the architect or builder wants the rendering to achieve. The rendering, when completed, is given to the architect or builder by the…
Between the Layers: Transparent Paper as a Modernist Architectural Design Environment
06.01.2022
Between the Layers: Transparent Paper as a Modernist Architectural Design Environment06.01.2022
…the wider context of related media, making reference to the methods of Modernist architects and photographers, filmmakers and video game designers. The notion is organised around the distinction between ‘literal…
The Well-Constructed Joke: Comic Architecture
01.05.2024
The Well-Constructed Joke: Comic Architecture01.05.2024
This article first appeared in German: ‘Der gut gebaute Witz’ in Der Architekt 4/21 ‘Effekt und Affekt, Psychologie in der Architektur’ (2021), 60-63. 18 September 2021 Kurt W. Forster writing to Holger…
Entering the Imperial Palace
16.03.2022
Entering the Imperial Palace16.03.2022
…to his ankyloglossia (a shortened skin between his tongue and his mouth). His closest family member and confidant was his sister until he witnessed her murder at the hands of…
The Pursuit of Gothic
10.11.2021
The Pursuit of Gothic10.11.2021
…Gothic was English and felt too passionate a commitment to the idea to look objectively at the evidence. Christopher Wren’s suggestion that it derived from Saracenic architecture and came to…
Frank Lloyd Wright, House for Edith Carlson, 1939, Part II
07.11.2021
Frank Lloyd Wright, House for Edith Carlson, 1939, Part II07.11.2021
Extracted from Stories from Architecture: Behind the Lines at Drawing Matter by Philippa Lewis, published by MIT Press © 2021. Order the book here. The drawings around which Stories from Architecture are written are all part…
Simon Fraser University
01.02.2024
Simon Fraser University01.02.2024
…just under the latticed windows of the dormitories. With the full university community’s endorsement and under the stewardship of Herb Auerbach, sketch plans were drawn up as a basis for…
Paul László: Hertz Fallout Shelter
31.08.2020
Paul László: Hertz Fallout Shelter31.08.2020
…would find his way to Hollywood and its environs, though not before serving in World War II for his new country. In short order, he gained attention for his futuristic…
The Master Builder: William Butterfield and His Times
27.03.2025
The Master Builder: William Butterfield and His Times27.03.2025
– Nicholas Ray
…to pore over the originals in detail. Nicholas Olsberg’s recent book The Master Builder: William Butterfield and His Times more than passes both these tests. He writes with compelling enthusiasm about…
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