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Entering the Imperial Palace
16.03.2022
Entering the Imperial Palace16.03.2022
…to his ankyloglossia (a shortened skin between his tongue and his mouth). His closest family member and confidant was his sister until he witnessed her murder at the hands of…
‘Then There Was War’: John Hejduk’s Silent Witnesses as Nuclear Criticism
19.10.2022
‘Then There Was War’: John Hejduk’s Silent Witnesses as Nuclear Criticism19.10.2022
…then make any sense to consider this as silence at all? Wouldn’t it rather be the case that silence, as marker of a limit condition, with this loss of witness passes…
Luigi Moretti and Spazio: Abstract Forms of Baroque Sculpture
26.09.2024
Luigi Moretti and Spazio: Abstract Forms of Baroque Sculpture26.09.2024
Marco Vanucci and Drawing Matter revisit three seminal texts of Luigi Moretti, not generally available in translation. Christopher Huw Evans has translated the three texts for Drawing Matter. The first post…
Luigi Moretti and Spazio: Eclecticism and Unity of Language
31.07.2024
Luigi Moretti and Spazio: Eclecticism and Unity of Language31.07.2024
…his predecessors, taking on the responsibility of uncovering the unitary language common to all human expressions. Marco Vanucci and Drawing Matter revisit three seminal texts of Luigi Moretti, not generally available in…
Landing Square Scenarios: The Wilhelmina Pier & Luxor Theatre
29.01.2024
Landing Square Scenarios: The Wilhelmina Pier & Luxor Theatre29.01.2024
…Wilhelmina Pier—docklands recently connected to downtown Rotterdam by Ben van Berkel’s Erasmus bridge, which slips in at the lower edge of our drawings. Our Landing Quay with its voyeuristic Bridge…
Luigi Moretti and Spazio: Structures and Sequences of Spaces
17.10.2024
Luigi Moretti and Spazio: Structures and Sequences of Spaces17.10.2024
Marco Vanucci and Drawing Matter revisit three seminal texts of Luigi Moretti, not generally available in translation. Christopher Huw Evans has translated the three texts for Drawing Matter. The first post…
Galli da Bibiena
10.03.2017
Galli da Bibiena10.03.2017
…the near entirety of parameters within a single, engraved plate: in this case, the delineation of the scene’s point of sight (what today we’d term the vanishing point), the calculation…
Paolo Portoghesi: The Field Theory
09.11.2020
Paolo Portoghesi: The Field Theory09.11.2020
…that it complies with the requirements of the classical order. At the turn of the seventeenth century, Baroque architecture represents one of the most sophisticated examples of proto-parametric architectural styles….
Opportunism
02.06.2022
Opportunism02.06.2022
– Richard Hall and Emma Rutherford
…‘The Sparkling Metropolis’, Guggenheim, New York (1978). See also various discussions on the exhibition in: Christophe van Gerrewey (Ed.), OMA/Rem Koolhaas: A Critical Reader, (Basel: Birkhäuser, 2019), pp.26-61. See related reading….
Insignificance 1: Discipline
04.05.2021
Insignificance 1: Discipline04.05.2021
Adler & Sullivan, section, addition to Selz Schwab & Co Factory building, USA, 1903. Ink on linen. DMC 2058.8. (detail). The space of the architectural imagination resides within the discourses…
Materia 5: Timber
18.04.2023
Materia 5: Timber18.04.2023
…we choose to look beyond line’s docility, to consider the conceptual space of the page—the very ground of representation itself—we start to glimpse a more complex field, which, under close…
Power & Public Space 6: André Patrão – Eisenman, Derrida, and Chora L Works (Parc de la Villette)
22.07.2022
Power & Public Space 6: André Patrão – Eisenman, Derrida, and Chora L Works (Parc de la Villette)22.07.2022
– Matthew Blunderfield and André Patrão
…A collaboration between Peter Eisenman and Jaques Derrida, the unrealised Chora project was intended to stand within the Parc de la Villette complex as an ode to a dialogue between…
The Zilsel Thesis: A Review of Strata: William Smith’s Geological Maps (2020): Review
04.05.2021
The Zilsel Thesis: A Review of Strata: William Smith’s Geological Maps (2020): Review04.05.2021
…sculptors, metalworkers, and builders needed both practical and theoretical knowledge in order to work effectively. As cities concentrated production and grew into centres of commerce, an atmosphere of competition encouraged…
Alternative Histories: Schneider Türtscher on Álvaro Siza
28.02.2019
Alternative Histories: Schneider Türtscher on Álvaro Siza28.02.2019
Schneider Türtscher, Álvaro Siza’s sketch for SAAL Bouça Housing, 2018. Grey cardboard, corrugated cardboard, spruce sticks, pencil, glue, acrylic paint, clear lacquer, 230 × 200 × 120 mm. Álvaro Siza…
DMJ – ‘All the varieties of Nature’s works under ground’: the Geological Imagination of Alexander Pope
09.12.2022
DMJ – ‘All the varieties of Nature’s works under ground’: the Geological Imagination of Alexander Pope09.12.2022
Alexander Pope, Plan of the Twickenham Grotto, placed on a letter from William Oliver to William Borlase dated January 1740. Courtesy of the Morrab Library, Penzance. In 1739, the English…
Drawings in Conversation
01.09.2017
Drawings in Conversation01.09.2017
…set the vanishing point of the drawing at about 3.5 m above the ground plane. Immediately it becomes clear that the drawing is not proposing a reality but merely suggesting…
Hans Hollein & Spiritual Expression in Architecture
22.09.2023
Hans Hollein & Spiritual Expression in Architecture22.09.2023
…the human spirit. The expression is exemplified in the group of post-impressionist painters appropriately referred to as the Expressionists. These included Cezanne, Gaugin, and Van Gogh among others, their quest…
The Wessex Project: Thomas Hardy, Architect: Part III
06.01.2023
The Wessex Project: Thomas Hardy, Architect: Part III06.01.2023
…with overhanging storeys, whose small-paned lattices were screened by dimity curtains on a drawing-string, and under whose barge-boards cobwebs waved in the breeze. There were houses of brick-nogging, which derived…
The ESB’s New Clothes
12.01.2023
The ESB’s New Clothes12.01.2023
…a mile from Merrion Square East to Fitzwilliam Place, was regarded by many as a blatant act of architectural vandalism. Completed in 1970, Stephenson Gibney’s ESB HQ was in fact…
Processing Process
25.04.2025
Processing Process25.04.2025
…or what change prompted the next. Similarly, layers of trace paper are rarely preserved in order—sketches scatter, get shuffled, or vanish entirely, leaving behind fragments with no clear beginning or…
Alternative Histories: Bovenbouw Architectuur on James Gowan
01.02.2019
Alternative Histories: Bovenbouw Architectuur on James Gowan01.02.2019
…cylinder. The elements in the stack grow in size according to Hans van der Laan’s plastic number, which adds weight to the visual experience. The tapering of the tower amplifies…
Shatwell Farm: Cars
19.02.2024
Shatwell Farm: Cars19.02.2024
– Emily Priest
…full of cider and shiny pinecone-looking decorations hanging from precast concrete gables inside one of the sheds. Were these from last Christmas or for the one coming? Apart from our…
Buildings Projects at Shatwell Farm Emily Priest (series)