Writing Prize 2020: Figures of War
29 September 2020
Writing Prize 2020: Figures of War29 September 2020
…on acetate, 297 × 210 mm. DMC 2738.4. Archizoom Associata, Homogeneous Housing Diagram – Hypothesis of a non-figurative Architectural Language (detail), 1969–1972. Print on acetate, 297 × 210 mm. DMC…
Notes on the 2024 Architecture Summer School
6 September 2024
Notes on the 2024 Architecture Summer School6 September 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,…
David Kohn Architects
14 April 2018
David Kohn Architects14 April 2018
David Kohn Architects (1972), Hounslow Pavilion, 2013. Pen and ink and colour pencil on paper. Courtesy of David Kohn. David Kohn Architects (1972), Hounslow Pavilion, 2013. Pen and ink and…
Notes on the 2016 Summer School
21 August 2016
Notes on the 2016 Summer School21 August 2016
…nervous than John Glew, the students’ teacher. The reality of the event, however, was reassuringly prosaic. The wind was chill, the lunch buns tasty, and the critics warmed to their…
James Wines: Ghost Parking Lot
5 October 2017
James Wines: Ghost Parking Lot5 October 2017
James Wines (1932), Ghost Parking Lot, Hamden Mall, New Haven, Connecticut, 1977. Pen and ink on paper, 348 × 432 mm. DMC 2293. This drawing depicts a site-specific public art…
Vilanova Artigas: Drawing Models – Review
20 October 2022
Vilanova Artigas: Drawing Models – Review20 October 2022
…© Nicolas Delaroche Studio. Vilanova Artigas, Drawing Models Exhibition, F’AR Lausanne, 2022. © Nicolas Delaroche Studio. These sketches, predominantly made for – and with – his grandchildren reveal something of…
Behind the Lines 2
19 December 2017
Behind the Lines 219 December 2017
P. O’Neil, Kitchen Design, c.1955. Pen, ink and watercolour on thick wove paper, 470 × 387 mm. DMC 2944. An idle (and very fanciful) speculation on the origin of a…
Jørn Utzon
3 March 2017
Jørn Utzon3 March 2017
…(0.5 mm), with exceptionally thick lines being formed of several combined lines: two for contour, plus infill. Jørn recalled that during his time in Stockholm they’d used five different thicknesses. 1H leads were mostly used,…
About Malagueira: Siza’s Poem on Page 27 of Sketchbook 01
20 February 2023
About Malagueira: Siza’s Poem on Page 27 of Sketchbook 0120 February 2023
…movement Making a new expansion that translates the counter-attack It is a problem of strategy not age Álvaro Siza (1933–), page 27, Caderno 1 – Evora Bouca, 1977. DMC 2503.27….
Startha Éagsula: Steve Larkin Architects on Walter Pichler
12 November 2020
Startha Éagsula: Steve Larkin Architects on Walter Pichler12 November 2020
…(possibly for the Underground City), hardback bound sketchbook, 1964. Pen, pencil and ink on wove paper, 230 × 170 × 20 mm. DMC 2552.104-105. We imagine the character and implicit…
Jaume Mayol / TEd’A Arquitectes: Drawn Closer
28 May 2020
Jaume Mayol / TEd’A Arquitectes: Drawn Closer28 May 2020
– Sarah Handelman and Jaume Mayol
…and sometimes you build it. Jaume Mayol, sketchbook pages, March–April 2020. Ink on paper. Courtesy the architect. Jaume Mayol, sketchbook pages, March–April 2020. Ink on paper. Courtesy the architect. Jaume…
Buckminster Fuller’s Geodesic Sphere
9 October 2018
Buckminster Fuller’s Geodesic Sphere9 October 2018
– Helen Thomas
Richard Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983), Study Drawing for a Geodesic Sphere, 1975. Pen on paper, 610 × 480 mm. DMC 1022. Frail and delicate, Richard Buckminster Fuller’s drawing of a geodesic…
sketch elevation theoretical & imaginary DMC