Futures of the Architectural Exhibition (2023) β Review
5 May 2023
Futures of the Architectural Exhibition (2023) β Review5 May 2023
β Paul Mosley
…is assistant professor of architecture and urban design at Kent State CAED. Notes See, for example: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/museum-dei-plans-2022-2161690 (accessed 1.3.23) See, for example (paywall): https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/28/arts/design/raphael-montanez-ortiz-el-museuo-del-barrio.html (accessed 1.3.23) See: https://www.strikemoma.org/ (accessed 1.3.23)…
DMJ βΒ From Hearths to Volcanoes: the Armenian glkhatun
9 May 2023
DMJ βΒ From Hearths to Volcanoes: the Armenian glkhatun9 May 2023
…comparison between the vernacular structure, already described by Xenophon during his passage through western Armenia in the fifth century BCE, and Mount Ararat, with its ring of volcanic vents. Because…
Photo City: How Images Shape the Urban World
11 October 2024
Photo City: How Images Shape the Urban World11 October 2024
…going back to Édouard Baldus and the French Commission des Monuments of 1858. By coming full circle on its initial premise, the exhibition ends with a section about the proliferation…
The Well-Constructed Joke: Comic Architecture
1 May 2024
The Well-Constructed Joke: Comic Architecture1 May 2024
β Holger Kleine
…in the past and in the future, Paul Rudolph’s Lecture Hall ranks equally alongside these two examples of ingenious communication comedy. Its unique selling point could be that it unfolds…
Behind the Lines 10
19 June 2019
Behind the Lines 1019 June 2019
β Philippa Lewis
…‘considerable use was made of kitchen cabinets, cold storage cupboards and combined hatches and china stores’ –this was an architecture competition, not the Ideal Home Exhibition. He read on: ‘The…
Growth or Composition? Colin Rowe to Louis Kahn
10 February 2022
Growth or Composition? Colin Rowe to Louis Kahn10 February 2022
β Michael Merrill
…Collection. In his later schemes for the Jewish Community Center. Kahn would indeed shift away from the paradigm of ‘Growth’ toward that of Rowe’s ‘Composition’. In the end, Composition’s victory…
The Ulysses Project: Architecture and the city through James Joyceβs Dublin: Introduction
8 June 2022
The Ulysses Project: Architecture and the city through James Joyceβs Dublin: Introduction8 June 2022
…to think about architecture, but to think through it. Click here to download Reimagining Joyce’s Dublin: an interview with Freddie Phillipson by Sarah Montague (2022), published in Irish Studies Review.Download…
Sant’Elia and Global Futurist Architecture
21 July 2023
Sant’Elia and Global Futurist Architecture21 July 2023
…exhibition of the young architect’s work organized in 1930 by the commune of his native city, Como, fourteen years after his death in the defence of Montefalcone. Filippo Thomaso Marinetti…
Keeping a Notebook
24 June 2021
Keeping a Notebook24 June 2021
β Simon Unwin
…at the Welsh School of Architecture in Cardiff. Pdfs of some of Simon’s notebooks may be downloaded from simonunwin.com. He also supplements the content of his books on Instagram: www.instagram.com/analysingarchitecture….
Charles Jencks: Architect in the Jumping Universe
25 January 2022
Charles Jencks: Architect in the Jumping Universe25 January 2022
β Lily Jencks
…could hold several different meanings or mixed metaphors that communicate to people differently depending on their cultural background, interests, or simply their state of mind. The snail mound is also…
Stendhal’s Autobiography: La Vie de Henri Brulard
14 October 2022
Stendhal’s Autobiography: La Vie de Henri Brulard14 October 2022
…example. But there are harder realisations: that winter in Civitavecchia he took himself to pieces. And stared without self-pity. But then he puts himself back together again. By that brutality…
Seven Facets of Architectural Disegno
16 August 2024
Seven Facets of Architectural Disegno16 August 2024
β Cara Rachele
…ornamental details or complex lifting machines, or in contractual documents outlining the general particulars required by the patron. Vasari used drawings, as the carriers of the design or the idea…
Pan Scroll Zoom 7: MOS
25 February 2021
Pan Scroll Zoom 7: MOS25 February 2021
β Fabrizio Gallanti, Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample
…house for at least two people. The third was a community centre, and students had to get in touch with a local community, group, or organisation. The communities were very…
Craving Primal Architecture
17 August 2021
Craving Primal Architecture17 August 2021
β Rory Chisholm
…contrast between compressed dark spaces and freeing light spaces, an abundance of sensual natural and textured materials, planting as a focal point, and a combination of different sized open spaces…
Besides, History (2018): Book Review
9 August 2021
Besides, History (2018): Book Review9 August 2021
β Stan Allen
…is not obviously present in the work of either practice. Hasegawa’s pitched-roof houses, for example, owe as much to the vernacular (or simply to abstract geometry) than to history. OFFICE/KGDVS’s…
Tradition and Modernity, Continuity and Critique
4 March 2021
Tradition and Modernity, Continuity and Critique4 March 2021
β Rebecca Siefert
…Delirious New York). [3] Nicholas Baume has likewise compared LeWitt’s three-dimensional grid-like structures to the scaffolding of New York City, describing them as a ‘disavowal of readings of completeness’. [4]…
The House and the Sketch
25 January 2021
The House and the Sketch25 January 2021
…orthography values completion, the sketch knows only repetition. No single drawing or combination of them contains what the house is looking for. It pursues a sketch that cannot yet be…
Alberto Ponis, The London Years
14 December 2023
Alberto Ponis, The London Years14 December 2023
β Gillian Darley
…nor did a better paid situation in the Middlesex County Council office tempt him either. The search for a smaller practice led to ErnΕ Goldfinger. Although ‘a simply…
Giuliano Fiorenzoli: Because of Seeing Architecture (2023) – Review
8 February 2024
Giuliano Fiorenzoli: Because of Seeing Architecture (2023) – Review8 February 2024
β Stan Allen
…larger recession, worsened by decades of overspending and poor management, but whatever the cause, there was little work for architects, particularly those operating outside the mainstream. Michael Graves was teaching,…
Entering the Imperial Palace
16 March 2022
Entering the Imperial Palace16 March 2022
β Will Jennings
…of Gibeon as imagined in his brother’s breakthrough painting Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still upon Gibeon. John would take sketches of the early composition to show his younger…
Trees Move In
22 October 2020
Trees Move In22 October 2020
β Sylvia Lavin
…Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2004), 92–93. On the second page of the introduction, Dumont describes the publication thus: ‘elle peut être considerée comme un Dictionaire linéaire de cette Basilique.’ (‘It…
Pan Scroll Zoom 17: Monadnock
1 September 2021
Pan Scroll Zoom 17: Monadnock1 September 2021
β Job Floris and Fabrizio Gallanti
…all over Europe, and had a complete ease in mixing examples and references from very different periods, such as Modernism with the Baroque. They brought a completely different and refreshing…
Denise Scott Brown. In Other Eyes: Portraits of an Architect (2022) β Review
24 July 2023
Denise Scott Brown. In Other Eyes: Portraits of an Architect (2022) β Review24 July 2023
β Mark Pimlott
…and conjectural text on architectural expression and composition with examples of early works of the practice of Venturi and Rauch. This is but one aspect of more complex movements lying…
Architectural anxiety
28 September 2011
Architectural anxiety28 September 2011
β Niall Hobhouse and Nicholas Olsberg
…elevation facing the park he was responding equally to his own building, by then 20 years old, and attempting to complete the dense composition of the urban block that stretches…
presentation art practice landscape public space sketch work on paper (series) elevation projection (axonometric isometric) topographic/cartographic DMC