Autographicals
1 October 2020
Autographicals1 October 2020
Aldo Rossi (1931–1997), copy by Jesse Reiser, Composition with Modena Cemetery (1972), 1979. Sepia ink and gouache on paper, 712 × 1003 mm. DMC 2287. © Eredi Aldo Rossi. Autographicals…
Imagine Moscow
15 March 2017
Imagine Moscow15 March 2017
Installation Photograph, Luke Hayes. 15 March – 4 June 2017, The Design Museum, London Curated by Eszter Steierhoffer Iakov Georgievich Chernikhov (1889–1951), compositional sketch, 1920. Black ink, 120 × 120…
Alternative Histories: Monadnock on James Stirling
29 July 2019
Alternative Histories: Monadnock on James Stirling29 July 2019
Monadnock, James Stirling’s sketch plan for the Staatsgalerie, 2018. Cellular concrete, paint, acrylic elements, 200 × 100 × 600 mm. James Stirling (1926–1992), Sketch plan, Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany, 1977. Pencil…
Dissecting
25 July 2017
Dissecting25 July 2017
Programme Notes: Drawing Matter, Royal Fine Art Commission Trust, Kingston School of Art Summer School. Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959), detail, cast-concrete block, Midway Gardens, Chicago, c.1914. Cast concrete. DMC 1414….
William Butterfield
6 December 2017
William Butterfield6 December 2017
…Saints, Babbacombe, 1867. Pen, ink and watercolour on paper. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London. William Butterfield (1814–1900), Design for Steeple, Church of All Saints, Babbacombe, 1867. Pen, ink and…
Animals
5 May 2020
Animals5 May 2020
– James Gowan and Ellis Woodman
…2658.13a. EW: How tall were they? JG: Pretty bloody high. EW: Windowless? JG: Yes or no. That is detail. You would have someone else, perhaps, Arup, do that. There might be a…
Bulgakov’s ‘Golden City’ (1923)
3 May 2021
Bulgakov’s ‘Golden City’ (1923)3 May 2021
…the ticket offices – queue tails. https://youtu.be/a_ilY9pwOHo?t=309 Dziga Vertov, Yelizaveta Svilova, Mikhail Kaufman, ‘Kino-Pravda’ newsreel number 18, 1923. And everywhere further there is tree, tree, tree. Fresh, cut, sawn, golden,…
Projected Sections
15 January 2017
Projected Sections15 January 2017
…the outer world is from now on highly differentiated by construction (wall, windows, terrace, etc.) and a series of new devices (telephone, radio, but also heating, sanitary, garbage chutes, etc.)….
Michael Graves’ Rooftop Village (1985)
1 June 2020
Michael Graves’ Rooftop Village (1985)1 June 2020
…Mass: MIT Press, 1985) Notes Spencer Heinz, ‘Proposed City Office Building Design Called ‘A Dog’,’ Oregon Journal, n.d. Steve Jenning, ‘Chaotic or Poetic?,’ Oregonian, March, 1980. Belluschi’s letter and others…
Tony Fretton: Tolerance
27 October 2020
Tony Fretton: Tolerance27 October 2020
…Books, 2018), 29 & Tony Fretton, ‘London’, AEIOU (Heijningen: Jap Sam Books, 2018), 18. Jonathan Sergison, ‘Working with Tony Fretton’, III Fretton: The Lisson Gallery Sketchbooks (Somerset: Drawing Matter, 2018)….
Walter Segal, Self-Built Architect (2021) – Review
26 May 2022
Walter Segal, Self-Built Architect (2021) – Review26 May 2022
…Segal, Drawing for ‘Home and Environment’ Book. Photo courtesy of John Segal. Alice Grahame and John McKean’s book, Walter Segal, Self-Built Architect, as the title suggests, highlights Segal’s self-build expertise…
Views of A Civic Utopia
6 April 2016
Views of A Civic Utopia6 April 2016
…1654. Louis-François Trouard (1729–1804), two elevations, Caserne des Gardes Françaises, Versailles, 1771. Pen, ink, grey and blue wash on laid paper, 435 × 610 mm. François-Joseph Bélanger (1744–1818), Theatre for…
a civic utopia (exhibition) DMC