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Stirling at Stuttgart: Rear View / Up Views
15.06.2020
Stirling at Stuttgart: Rear View / Up Views15.06.2020
…careless (to borrow Robert Maxwell’s phrase) composition of disjointed office buildings, grp-clad and systematically striped pavilions that Stirling would later compare to two badly-parked London buses. This particular evening he…
Future Scenarios, Part II
31.05.2016
Future Scenarios, Part II31.05.2016
– Niall Hobhouse and Nicholas Olsberg
…emperors (or Robert Moses) — is also tuned to the melody of that other Wordsworth who saw in ruins the “still sad music of humanity” and delighted in the melancholy…
Room at the Top?: Kate Macintosh, Denise Scott Brown and the Kingmaker-critic
07.03.2022
Room at the Top?: Kate Macintosh, Denise Scott Brown and the Kingmaker-critic07.03.2022
…work to Robert Venturi: ‘I watched as he was manufactured into an architectural guru before my eyes and to some extent, on the basis of our joint work and the work…
Excerpt: Shadow Places
15.03.2021
Excerpt: Shadow Places15.03.2021
…‘4’33″’ would be a blank, but maybe slightly creased or marked, piece of white paper: maybe Piero Manzoni’s ‘Achrome’, 1958; or Robert Ryman’s ‘Ledger’, 1982.) There are many dimensions to…
Charles Stanley Peach: Pioneer in Power
08.02.2022
Charles Stanley Peach: Pioneer in Power08.02.2022
…year trying to solve its mysteries), such as that now in the collection of Robert Simon Fine Art in New York (another version also in the RIBA Collection), or on…
The Rural Homes of Marcelo Ferraz and Francisco Fanucci
13.12.2021
The Rural Homes of Marcelo Ferraz and Francisco Fanucci13.12.2021
…and Di Cavalcanti; the literature of Raul Bopp, Oswald de Andrade and the same Mário de Andrade; the architecture of Lúcio Costa; and in the landscaping of Roberto Burle Marx….
Pan Scoll Zoom 19: Pier Vittorio Aureli and Maria S. Giudici
19.01.2022
Pan Scoll Zoom 19: Pier Vittorio Aureli and Maria S. Giudici19.01.2022
– Pier Vittorio Aureli, Fabrizio Gallanti and Maria S. Giudici
…is indeed a serious problem. The art historian Roberto Longhi used to say that if you want to be an art historian you have to be able to paint, draw,…
Survey: John Goldicutt, Temple of Vespasian
25.08.2021
Survey: John Goldicutt, Temple of Vespasian25.08.2021
…decoration restored. New surveys were therefore required. As Robert Adam explained in a 1755 letter to his brother from Rome, the way to do it was to make all the…
Insignificance 3: Mourning Work
09.06.2021
Insignificance 3: Mourning Work09.06.2021
…Ebhardt, took over his father’s office. Professor Robert Jan van Pelt: I had a look at the drawings, and they appear typical for the tens of thousands of barracks that…
Singing Songs of Piccadilly: Review
16.02.2021
Singing Songs of Piccadilly: Review16.02.2021
– Editors
…would it cost, Sir Robert, to close the Park to the public?’ Walpole – ‘May it please your Majesty, but Three Crowns – your own, your husband’s and your son’s’…
Trees Make A Plan
07.10.2020
Trees Make A Plan07.10.2020
…Rykwert with Neil Leach and Robert Tavernor (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1988), 9, 25. An early Italian edition of Alberti’s De re aedificatoria uses the word pianta several times, particularly when the discussion concerns dimensions. See Leon Battista…
Take One: Architects on Drawing
23.02.2021
Take One: Architects on Drawing23.02.2021
– Editors
Robert Lorimer (1865–1929), sketch for a draughting table, c.1897. Pencil and blue crayon on black-edged writing paper, 125 × 205 mm. DMC 3277.3r. Take One is a collaboration between Drawing…
Re-presenting the Rococo
24.02.2021
Re-presenting the Rococo24.02.2021
…the reader to understand only the most basic information about the architectural skeleton. St Michael is better served photographically than most of these churches as a result of Robert Stalla’s thorough 1989 monograph with fifteen colour…
Thomas Chippendale and Ornament
13.01.2021
Thomas Chippendale and Ornament13.01.2021
…a shipwreck. The 1770s saw this ebullient asymmetry subside, with shallower relief and simpler forms characterising Chippendale’s neoclassical collaborations with Robert Adam. And yet it is Chippendale’s beginnings that resonate…
Pan Scroll Zoom 5: Andrés Jaque
16.12.2020
Pan Scroll Zoom 5: Andrés Jaque16.12.2020
– Fabrizio Gallanti and Andrés Jaque
…a predominantly Puerto Rican population were destroyed and a large number of these citizens ended up deported, as Robert Moses stated, ‘where the rail ends,’ in Rockaway Beach, on land…
Architecture and Geology
07.02.2017
Architecture and Geology07.02.2017
Map of North-West Europe, showing urbanisation overlaid on clay, gravel, sand and coal deposits. Clay: brown; gravel: red-brown; sand: beige; coal: dark grey. Witherford Watson Mann Architects/Labo S, University of…
Paolo Portoghesi: The Field Theory
09.11.2020
Paolo Portoghesi: The Field Theory09.11.2020
…delle macchine alle macchine inutili (Milan: Edizioni Medusa, 2015), 32. Mario Carpo, The Alphabet and the Algorithm (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011). Roberto Bottazzi, Digital Architecture beyond Computers (London: Bloomsbury,…
The (Im)possible Palimpsest
10.04.2025
The (Im)possible Palimpsest10.04.2025
…dell’Istituto di Storia dell’Architettura, no. 15 (Rome: 1956). Manfredo Tafuri, Sphere and the Labyrinth: Avant-Gardes and Architecture from Piranesi to the 1970’s, trans. by Pellegrino d’Acierno and Robert Connolly (London,…
Richard J. Neutra: Visitor Center at Gettysburg National Park
22.08.2016
Richard J. Neutra: Visitor Center at Gettysburg National Park22.08.2016
– Nicholas Olsberg
…expand visitor and interpretive centres in the national parks by engaging distinguished modern architects to design them, Richard Neutra, then in partnership with Robert Alexander, was invited to develop a…
memorial & monument DMC projection (axonometric isometric) presentation