Louis Kahn: Notes on a Scrap of Paper
30 April 2020
Louis Kahn: Notes on a Scrap of Paper30 April 2020
Louis Kahn (1901–1974), design for a new building for the Tribune Review Publishing Company, 1958. Ink on paper. Courtesy of the Design Archive of Special Collections, University of Buffalo. This…
DMJ – Template and Talisman
13 March 2024
DMJ – Template and Talisman13 March 2024
Original Zuni Amulet inlaid with jet and mother of pearl. Photograph by the author. From the Aldo van Eyck Archive. For a time, Aldo Van Eyck kept this little amulet…
The Architectural Models of Theodore Conrad: The ‘miniature boom’ of mid-century modernism (2021) – Review
25 January 2022
The Architectural Models of Theodore Conrad: The ‘miniature boom’ of mid-century modernism (2021) – Review25 January 2022
…topic which now forms the basis of this book, Fankhänel was instrumental in securing a place for the majority of this important archive in the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts…
DMJ – The Stereoautograph
6 December 2023
DMJ – The Stereoautograph6 December 2023
…Zeiss Archive in 2004, the Technical University of Hanover had to remove part of its roof in order to lift it out by crane. In the era of GPS and…
ETH Zurich: Casting the Cornice in Ticino
8 January 2020
ETH Zurich: Casting the Cornice in Ticino8 January 2020
– Emma Letizia Jones and Erik Wegerhoff
…halls, casting architectural cornices in plaster. Through a creative process of translation, the students transformed the cornices depicted in drawings from different historical periods selected from the Drawing Matter archive…
Zaha Hadid
27 November 2018
Zaha Hadid27 November 2018
…side of Zaha are Alastair Standing – the other ex-student who was working with me over that first summer when we did The Peak – and ME. From the Archive…
Entering the Imperial Palace
16 March 2022
Entering the Imperial Palace16 March 2022
…place, so what kind of place is it? Most of Drawing Matter’s archive is indexed, understood, and anchored to something of substance — a built project, theoretical development, or an…
Freddie Phillipson ‘The Ulysses Project’ – Review
18 July 2022
Freddie Phillipson ‘The Ulysses Project’ – Review18 July 2022
…the nature of architectural and urban order. Freddie Phillipson ‘The Ulysses Project’, installation at the Irish Architectural Archive. Photos: Freddie Phillipson. In my view, Ulysses is the best account of…
The Wessex Project: Thomas Hardy, Architect: Part III
6 January 2023
The Wessex Project: Thomas Hardy, Architect: Part III6 January 2023
…location of Hardy’s faded red marks around Flintcomb-Ash. Courtesy Dorset Museum/Thomas Hardy archive at the Dorset History Centre. The other, ‘Tess’s Country’ (published in Harper’s magazine in 1925), is a…
‘Then There Was War’: John Hejduk’s Silent Witnesses as Nuclear Criticism
19 October 2022
‘Then There Was War’: John Hejduk’s Silent Witnesses as Nuclear Criticism19 October 2022
…advance, for no symbolic possibility – no pictures, artefacts, elements – outlasts it. Here perhaps is the final meaning of the casket as ark, archive, and archival destruction. This is a…
Charles Jencks: Architect in the Jumping Universe
25 January 2022
Charles Jencks: Architect in the Jumping Universe25 January 2022
– Lily Jencks
…contains editorial content, a selection of writing and drawings from the Jencks Archive, and new commissions in response to these. The website begins with two inaugural themes. ‘Architistics: Architecture’s Linguistics’…
theoretical & imaginary landscape interior DMC