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Entering the Imperial Palace
16.03.2022

Entering the Imperial Palace16.03.2022

– Will Jennings

…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…

drawing matter writing prize 2021 DMC theoretical & imaginary religion

‘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

– Mark Dorrian

…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…

exhibition design theoretical & imaginary exhibition DMC

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

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…

art practice translation

Luigi Moretti and Spazio: Eclecticism and Unity of Language
31.07.2024

Luigi Moretti and Spazio: Eclecticism and Unity of Language31.07.2024

– Marco Vanucci

…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…

theoretical & imaginary translation

Landing Square Scenarios: The Wilhelmina Pier & Luxor Theatre
29.01.2024

Landing Square Scenarios: The Wilhelmina Pier & Luxor Theatre29.01.2024

– Peter Wilson

…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…

projection (axonometric isometric) culture urban form theatre DMC

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

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…

translation

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)

Galli da Bibiena
10.03.2017

Galli da Bibiena10.03.2017

– Fabrizio Ballabio

…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…

section publication concept & diagram theatre

Paolo Portoghesi: The Field Theory
09.11.2020

Paolo Portoghesi: The Field Theory09.11.2020

– Marco Vanucci

…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….

concept & diagram theoretical & imaginary

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….

exhibition DMC

Insignificance 1: Discipline
04.05.2021

Insignificance 1: Discipline04.05.2021

– Gordon Shrigley

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…

section insignificance (editorial series) DMC

Materia 5: Timber
18.04.2023

Materia 5: Timber18.04.2023

– Gordon Shrigley

…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…

materia (editorial series) section projection (axonometric isometric) detail

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…

landscape public space correspondence letters ephemera power and public space (podcast series)

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

– Stan Allen

…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…

section topographic/cartographic publication concept & diagram

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…

alternative histories (project) DMC

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

– Yue Zhuang

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…

nature literature DMJ 1 – The Geological Imagination

Porto School, B Side: Insurrectional Organization of Space
29.09.2021

Porto School, B Side: Insurrectional Organization of Space29.09.2021

– Pedro Bandeira

…in order to ‘fix’ the tower’s original defect; or cause flooding throughout Florence’s historic centre in order to ensure that only the dome of Santa Maria das Flores would remain…

theoretical & imaginary urban form

Drawings in Conversation
01.09.2017

Drawings in Conversation01.09.2017

– Matthew Wells

…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…

publication commerce interior section projection (axonometric isometric) presentation

Drawing as Advocacy
28.03.2022

Drawing as Advocacy28.03.2022

– Stephanie Davidson and Mary Vaccaro

…led them to experience homelessness, and how gender and identity shaped their survival while unsheltered. In conversations, the women describe the housing they want in detail. Their needs and desires…

projection (axonometric isometric) housing interior social engagement

Hans Hollein & Spiritual Expression in Architecture
22.09.2023

Hans Hollein & Spiritual Expression in Architecture22.09.2023

– C.M. Howell

…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…

DMC theoretical & imaginary religion

The Wessex Project: Thomas Hardy, Architect: Part III
06.01.2023

The Wessex Project: Thomas Hardy, Architect: Part III06.01.2023

– Kester Rattenbury

…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…

landscape literature

The ESB’s New Clothes
12.01.2023

The ESB’s New Clothes12.01.2023

– Colum O'Riordan

…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…

elevation competition record

Processing Process
25.04.2025

Processing Process25.04.2025

– Pablo Garcia

…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…

education DMC sketch plan survey domestic record

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…

alternative histories (project) DMC

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