Les Fêtes de Nuit (1937)
30 May 2022
Les Fêtes de Nuit (1937)30 May 2022
…(1937). We have added a group of gouache drawings by the architect René-André Coulon, made in the design phase for the same series of projects. Robert Chenevier, ‘La Technique des…
Benjamin Wistar Morris and a new Metropolitan Opera House
10 June 2022
Benjamin Wistar Morris and a new Metropolitan Opera House10 June 2022
…mid-block arcades is illustrated in this drawing). Four drawings are signed by Benjamin Wistar Morris working in partnership with his son-in-law Robert O’Connor and are dated 1931, 1935, and 1936….
Materia 2: Corrugated Iron
14 July 2022
Materia 2: Corrugated Iron14 July 2022
…monstrous legacy, that both seduces and repels in equal measure by folding the horizon of architecture within itself, into one easily transportable moduli. In 1829, Henry Robertson Palmer, then engineer…
Watchful Solitude: John Hejduk and Venice
15 July 2024
Watchful Solitude: John Hejduk and Venice15 July 2024
…contemporary public sphere.[11] Hejduk’s projective practice is an alternative path, distinct from Colin Rowe’s and Robert Venturi’s, as well as Peter Eisenman’s language. Unlike Eisenman, Hejduk does not explore a…
Thinking Through Twentieth-Century Architecture (2023) – Review
17 August 2023
Thinking Through Twentieth-Century Architecture (2023) – Review17 August 2023
…mediatory critiques of modernism precede the more drastic reactions of Postmodernism, as those of Robert Venturi and Michael Graves, and the question of typology as posed by Aldo Rossi. Louis…
Hans Hollein & Spiritual Expression in Architecture
22 September 2023
Hans Hollein & Spiritual Expression in Architecture22 September 2023
…cross as symbol. Register for full access to the catalogue here. – Eds. Robert Smithson (1938–1973), My House is A Decayed House, 1962. Photo-collage, pen, ink, gouache & watercolour on paper,…
In the Archive: New and Found 4
26 July 2024
In the Archive: New and Found 426 July 2024
– Editors
…still visible through the opaque structure, but one can’t ignore the urban hypothetical intervention. Robert Smithson, Bath: walks within the walls, 1971. Imprint, 305 × 117 mm. DMC 2716.1. Richard…
Eisenman: House VI (1985)
21 May 2020
Eisenman: House VI (1985)21 May 2020
…on Five,’ 205-207, and Robert Stern and Jaquelin Robertson in ‘Five on Fove,’ 47, 50. Stern proclaimed himself a non-believer: ‘I do not believe that structure, no matter how ‘deep’,…
Montage-Entourage; Or The Politics Of The Seam
24 January 2022
Montage-Entourage; Or The Politics Of The Seam24 January 2022
The following text is a version of chapter three from Reality Modeled After Images: Architecture and Aesthetics after the Digital Image by Michael Young, published by Routledge © 2021. Available…
Giuliano Fiorenzoli: Because of Seeing Architecture (2023) – Review
8 February 2024
Giuliano Fiorenzoli: Because of Seeing Architecture (2023) – Review8 February 2024
…Zziggurat collective with Alberto Breschi and Roberto Pecchioli before gaining a scholarship to study at MIT.[3] In New York, he found another group of like-minded young architects: Steven Holl, Lebbeus…
Abelardo Morell
6 April 2023
Abelardo Morell6 April 2023
– Rebecca Connor Reading
…Robert Adams’s book on the meaningfulness of art, he shows how Morell’s photograph of the inside of an attic, with the sea reflected in, emotionally correlates to descriptions of the…
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