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Notes from Rome
23.05.2024

Notes from Rome23.05.2024

– Anna Kostreva and Diane Lewis

…dark part of the surface but streamed and slid in rhythms down the white marble diagonals through the circular center drain. And I remember saying to you “Robert! Its Autumn…

sketch urban form

CP138 Gordon Matta-Clark: Readings of the Archive (2020) – Review
07.05.2022

CP138 Gordon Matta-Clark: Readings of the Archive (2020) – Review07.05.2022

– Penelope Curtis

…mother’s letters to the artist’s father, the painter Roberto Matta Echauren, and her subsequent correspondence with Isamu Noguchi. This woman – an artist named variously Anne or Anna, Clark, or…

archives

DMJ – Sir John Soane’s Office
09.09.2024

DMJ – Sir John Soane’s Office09.09.2024

– Helen Dorey

…extensively in 1818 when the Lower Office was converted into additional display space as a consequence of his purchases of antiquities and casts at the Robert Adam Sale.[12] The Upper Office…

DMJ 2 – Drawing Instruments/Instrumental Drawings drawing instruments

A Poetic Peak: Architecture and planning at the AA in the 1930s
16.09.2024

A Poetic Peak: Architecture and planning at the AA in the 1930s16.09.2024

– Editors and John Summerson

…to Howard Robertson; the SPRND was the first programme for postgraduates that approached planning as a subject in its own right, rather than an extension of architectural studies. The following…

projection (axonometric isometric) student work housing urban form DMC plan

Seven Facets of Architectural Disegno
16.08.2024

Seven Facets of Architectural Disegno16.08.2024

– Cara Rachele

…Ten Books, trans. Joseph Rykwert, Neil Leach, and Robert Tavernor (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1988). ‘E perché el modo del dissegnare che più si apartiene allo architecto è differente da quel…

plan disegno projection (axonometric isometric) orthogonal theoretical & imaginary ornament

Gavin Stamp: Interwar, British Architecture 1919-1939
08.07.2024

Gavin Stamp: Interwar, British Architecture 1919-193908.07.2024

– Otto Saumarez Smith

…reappears at many moments throughout the book. Oliver Hill, Robert Atkinson, H.S. Goodhart Rendel, and Giles Gilbert Scott take their place in Stamp’s pantheon of eclectics. Stamp also elevates from…

theoretical & imaginary urban form DMC sketch

DMJ – Brunel’s Camera Lucida
01.08.2024

DMJ – Brunel’s Camera Lucida01.08.2024

– Philip Steadman

…also joined by his old friend, the railway engineer Robert Stephenson. Wollaston arranged for the manufacture of camera lucidas by two firms of instrument-makers, Newman and Dollond, and put them on…

DMJ 2 – Drawing Instruments/Instrumental Drawings drawing instruments DMC

Notes on the 2024 Architecture Summer School
06.09.2024

Notes on the 2024 Architecture Summer School06.09.2024

– Editors

…Ben Canning, Ben Bailey, Brandon La, Cherie Ho, Eduardo Salema, Eliza Friend, Emilia Lisowska-Detko, Esme La Trobe-Roberts, Eva Tottenham, Gursimar Singh Kaur, Hamna Jarullah, Hugo Dutson, Iqra Ahmed, Jehan Fadhil,…

architectural drawing summer school

Leicester Engineering Building: Completed!
14.07.2021

Leicester Engineering Building: Completed!14.07.2021

– James Gowan

…Henry Moore’s (1941) sleeping figures drawn in the subways of wartime London and seen at an angle close to the face inform Robert Mapplethorpe’s portrait of Alice Neel in 1984…

record

The Evolving Role of Drawing
29.04.2022

The Evolving Role of Drawing29.04.2022

– Nicholas Olsberg

…studies that could have been Hubert Robert’s nearly 200 years before. We think of Wright talking then of his draughtsman Jack Howe as ‘the pencil in my hand’, of Will…

DMC sketch theoretical & imaginary education

Ernest Gimson: Against Hotch-Potch
11.11.2019

Ernest Gimson: Against Hotch-Potch11.11.2019

– Annette Carruthers, Mary Greensted and Barley Roscoe

…Co armchairs, the wedding-gift Dolmetsch piano and examples of Gimson’s own design. A few pieces of antique wood and metalwork were included and he wrote in a letter to Robert…

furniture & object design presentation

Barthélemy Enfantin
12.09.2016

Barthélemy Enfantin12.09.2016

– Helen Thomas

…the drawing bear comparison with Joseph Paxton’s blotting paper sketch made in 1850 for the Crystal Palace. Both Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Robert Stephenson were members of the building committee….

DMC elevation presentation civic & municipal

Some Thoughts on Sheds
07.10.2016

Some Thoughts on Sheds07.10.2016

– Nicholas Olsberg

…and just about every photographer of American landscape. Rudolf M. Schindler, photographer Robert C. Cleveland, Maurice Kallis House, view toward service entrance, Los Angeles, California, c.1951. Photographic print; gelatin silver….

presentation domestic ephemeral architecture DMC sketch elevation projection (axonometric isometric)

Charles Barry: Travel Sketching
11.11.2016

Charles Barry: Travel Sketching11.11.2016

– Rachel Blissett

…town where I met with the greatest attention and kindness’. The attention to detail is minute and exact and lives up to the later estimation of David Roberts, who, writing…

urban form DMC topographic/cartographic survey landscape

Archives, or Ardor
26.10.2017

Archives, or Ardor26.10.2017

– 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…

presentation domestic interior DMC

Sir William Chambers: Somerset House
23.12.2017

Sir William Chambers: Somerset House23.12.2017

…Bar Hama. Contrary to his competitor Robert Adam, Chambers’ detailing is modelled: bold and restrained, geometric in the coffering of the ceiling, and lightly developed to convey a strong three-dimensionality….

sketch plan section elevation detail civic & municipal construction drawing

Commonplace
12.11.2018

Commonplace12.11.2018

– Nicholas Olsberg

…on the Strand, living and working nearly all his life a few doors away in Robert Adam’s own suite in Adelphi, was deeply interested in metropolitan streetscaping, and in the…

elevation publication housing sketch

From a Little Below and to the Right
17.12.2019

From a Little Below and to the Right17.12.2019

– Niall Hobhouse

…his son, Robert: My father was, naturally, brought up and educated in the prevalent literary aesthetics of Ruskin and William Morris. A direct early influence, confirming his childhood’s enjoyment of…

sketch elevation domestic DMC

A Souvenir and Survey
22.06.2017

A Souvenir and Survey22.06.2017

– Basile Baudez

…same representational techniques. They tour together, use the same tools and study the same objects. Painters like Giovanni Paolo Panini in Italy or Hubert Robert in France are selling huge…

survey presentation concept & diagram memorial & monument DMC elevation

Other Lives: Charles Eisen and Laugier’s Essai sur l’Architecture
26.12.2019

Other Lives: Charles Eisen and Laugier’s Essai sur l’Architecture26.12.2019

– Rebecca Williamson

…Joseph’ in Graves, Robert Edmund, ed., Bryan’s Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, vol I (A–K), third edition, (London: George Bell & Sons, 1886), pp 18 and 459. Marc-Antoine Laugier, Essai sur l’Architecture,…

publication theoretical & imaginary graphic design DMC

Behind the Lines 14
03.02.2020

Behind the Lines 1403.02.2020

– Philippa Lewis

…like it had ever been done before, a meeting of the elements. I can’t describe how romantic it was. Yes, I worked with Robert Malet-Stevens on the Pavillon de l’Hygiene…

topographic/cartographic presentation civic & municipal public space behind the lines (series) creative writing DMC

Colin Rowe: Piazza Augusto Imperatore (1995)
05.03.2020

Colin Rowe: Piazza Augusto Imperatore (1995)05.03.2020

– Colin Rowe

…This text was written in 1995 as a retrospective response to Rowe’s contribution to the 1987 Milan Triennale, produced alongside Matthew Bell, Robert Goodill, Kevin Hinders, Brian Kelly, and Cheryl…

DMC plan topographic/cartographic student work publication civic & municipal urban form public space

Take One: Henry ‘Jim’ Cadbury-Brown and Richard Wentworth on the Royal College of Art
27.03.2020

Take One: Henry ‘Jim’ Cadbury-Brown and Richard Wentworth on the Royal College of Art27.03.2020

…that of a technical college. The RCA was designed by Hugh Casson, Robert Gooden and HT Cadbury-Brown, all faculty members at the time. They were commissioned by the college’s patrician…

elevation presentation education take one (series) DMC

Charles Barry: Good and Bad Manners in Architecture
17.04.2020

Charles Barry: Good and Bad Manners in Architecture17.04.2020

– David Blissett

South side of Pall Mall, 1912, showing Barry’s Reform palazzo and Travellers palazzino, beyond which is Decimus Burton’s Athenaeum of 1827-30. Reproduced in J. Mordaunt Crook, ‘The Reform Club,’ 1973….

plan elevation presentation civic & municipal

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