1329 texts about architecture in drawings, models and photography.
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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…
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
…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…
DMJ – Sir John Soane’s Office
09.09.2024
DMJ – Sir John Soane’s Office09.09.2024
…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…
Seven Facets of Architectural Disegno
16.08.2024
Seven Facets of Architectural Disegno16.08.2024
…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…
Gavin Stamp: Interwar, British Architecture 1919-1939
08.07.2024
Gavin Stamp: Interwar, British Architecture 1919-193908.07.2024
…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…
DMJ – Brunel’s Camera Lucida
01.08.2024
DMJ – Brunel’s Camera Lucida01.08.2024
…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…
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,…
Leicester Engineering Building: Completed!
14.07.2021
Leicester Engineering Building: Completed!14.07.2021
…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…
The Evolving Role of Drawing
29.04.2022
The Evolving Role of Drawing29.04.2022
…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…
Some Thoughts on Sheds
07.10.2016
Some Thoughts on Sheds07.10.2016
…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….
Archives, or Ardor
26.10.2017
Archives, or Ardor26.10.2017
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…
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….
Commonplace
12.11.2018
Commonplace12.11.2018
…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…
From a Little Below and to the Right
17.12.2019
From a Little Below and to the Right17.12.2019
…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…
A Souvenir and Survey
22.06.2017
A Souvenir and Survey22.06.2017
…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…
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
…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,…
Behind the Lines 14
03.02.2020
Behind the Lines 1403.02.2020
…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…
Colin Rowe: Piazza Augusto Imperatore (1995)
05.03.2020
Colin Rowe: Piazza Augusto Imperatore (1995)05.03.2020
…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…
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…
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