Construct
13 March 2023
Construct13 March 2023
…Louis Kahn’s FDR Four Freedoms State Park—Rem Koolhaas conceived the Welfare Palace Hotel (included in the appendix of Delirious New York). Further north, a competition was launched for a large…
fala atelier: Seriously Playful
6 May 2021
fala atelier: Seriously Playful6 May 2021
…White, Porto, 2020, © fala atelier My initial reactions to the compositions were of pure delight. The compositions, formulated by Lera, push us to see more than what is simply…
Drawing, Movement and Medium: Michael Webb in conversation with Mark Dorrian, Episode 2
21 January 2019
Drawing, Movement and Medium: Michael Webb in conversation with Mark Dorrian, Episode 221 January 2019
– Mark Dorrian and Michael Webb
…a building – that’s what I was fascinated by. Because it comes from a … – may I say this without…? – … it comes from a childhood memory of going…
After the Revolution: Dugourc in Spain
16 September 2022
After the Revolution: Dugourc in Spain16 September 2022
…Madrid in 1808 by J. Démost. Dugourg architecte du Roi Joseph Napoléon’. A sort of memory palace, the composition combines many of the motifs associated with the goût étrusque style…
Architecture at the Edge
13 January 2021
Architecture at the Edge13 January 2021
– Craig Moller and Marco Moro
…composition doesn’t derive from the hay barn, and it’s even less inspired by Judd’s sculpture. I guess it comes from something else that caught my attention as a student. What…
Jan Tschichold and El Lissitzky: Foto-Auge (Photo-eye)
29 June 2022
Jan Tschichold and El Lissitzky: Foto-Auge (Photo-eye)29 June 2022
…Constructor’. Included within were seventy-six photographs and composite works by many of the artist-designers associated with the New Typography, including Herbert Bayer, Max Burchartz, Heartfield, Hans Leistikow, Moholy-Nagy, Piet Zwart,…
Trees Push Back
3 November 2020
Trees Push Back3 November 2020
…KCET, January 30, 2015, https://www.kcet.org/shows/lost-la/elysian-parks-incredible-moving-mountain-of-1937. On the house in relation to Neutra’s life and career as a whole, see Thomas S. Hines, Richard Neutra and the Search for Modern Architecture:…
Giuseppe Terragni’s Primordial Architecture
6 May 2024
Giuseppe Terragni’s Primordial Architecture6 May 2024
…Courtesy of Archivio Terragni Como. Courtesy of Archivio Terragni Como. Courtesy of Archivio Terragni Como. There is no hint in the bozzetto of the abstraction for which Giuseppe Terragni would…
Charles Stanley Peach: Pioneer in Power
8 February 2022
Charles Stanley Peach: Pioneer in Power8 February 2022
…and Crompton, and soon became the preferred architect for the numerous companies setting up electricity supply systems around Britain, completing around seventy power infrastructure buildings during his career. In 1904,…
The Rural Homes of Marcelo Ferraz and Francisco Fanucci
13 December 2021
The Rural Homes of Marcelo Ferraz and Francisco Fanucci13 December 2021
…Bardi and crew, in the Anhangabaú Valley contest of 1981. ‘As ancient tropical trees’, the columns fulfil a fundamental task: ‘to give the iron/steel the ingenuous and asymmetrical freedom of…
Stone Adversaries – Ruskin’s Rocks, Hejduk’s Diamonds
24 October 2016
Stone Adversaries – Ruskin’s Rocks, Hejduk’s Diamonds24 October 2016
…painter rotated a square canvas 45° while maintaining the horizontal-vertical orientation of the composition; and possibly from Van Doesburg’s Contra-compositions, where (perhaps to spite his former comrade) the design was also…
A Civic Utopia Exhibition
8 October 2016
A Civic Utopia Exhibition8 October 2016
…Combes, an architect from Bordeaux trained in Parisian academic circles, submitted this competition design for a large square on the river Garonne to serve as a monumental entrance to replace…
Just Begin: The Convent Sainte-Marie-de-la-Tourette
28 July 2020
Just Begin: The Convent Sainte-Marie-de-la-Tourette28 July 2020
– Stan Allen and José Oubrerie
…communication between the wings are present, although in somewhat anemic form. They intersect in the exact centre, and the lateral arms are inclined downwards to meet the passageway to the…
Frank Lloyd Wright, House for Edith Carlson, 1939, Part I
21 October 2021
Frank Lloyd Wright, House for Edith Carlson, 1939, Part I21 October 2021
…As a librarian Edith had the inclination and the resources to research a subject thoroughly. Frank Lloyd Wright inspired her and she had no compunction in writing a peremptory letter…
Goldfinger—Planning Your Neighbourhood
14 October 2024
Goldfinger—Planning Your Neighbourhood14 October 2024
…dwellings should come in different forms depending on the size of a family and the needs of a community. The rest of the display—panels eleven through twenty—focussed on the reconstruction…
Hexenhaus (2021) – Review
27 June 2022
Hexenhaus (2021) – Review27 June 2022
…can see between things. To compile a book about such a complex house, evolving as it has over many years and through many different conversations, and authors, requires considerable editorial…
Drawing Exercises: Creativity
12 July 2023
Drawing Exercises: Creativity12 July 2023
– Matt Page and Fernando Poeiras
…make a copy. Compare the copied drawing with the original. C Freehand – make two copies of a drawing, one a freehand sketch and the other from slow and careful…
Freestanding: Sigurd Lewerentz
20 June 2018
Freestanding: Sigurd Lewerentz20 June 2018
…to the political and cultural changes of his long career, thus revealing the potential for a deeper commentary. Freestanding is an experiment, testing out how contemporary practitioners can engage with and respond…
Two Early Paintings with OMA
25 January 2021
Two Early Paintings with OMA25 January 2021
…used oil paints, a more sensitive and timid material, for gentle transparency, and I painted the shadows to complement the composition. My shadows rarely follow the rules of reality, mostly…
Retreat and Commemoration: Heath’s Court, 1878–82 – Part 3
10 October 2024
Retreat and Commemoration: Heath’s Court, 1878–82 – Part 310 October 2024
…to be published by Lund Humphries in October 2024. Contemporary photograph of the Entry Court of William Butterfield’s Heath’s Court. Copyright James Morris. William Butterfield (1814–1900), Ground floor plan, annotated…
E. S. Prior’s Architectural Modelling
2 August 2017
E. S. Prior’s Architectural Modelling2 August 2017
…precedence.’ [4] Perhaps slightly more complimentary about Blomfield’s model than The Building News, describing it as ‘an example of the highly finished work of the professional modeller’, complete inside and out ‘with…
Assemble: Collective Authorship
18 November 2017
Assemble: Collective Authorship18 November 2017
– Giles Smith and Adam Willis
…cills from cutting and shaping a coping piece. These standard components are combined with a few bespoke elements – in this model the plaster mouldings and stainless steel clips –…
The Iterative Power of Architecture’s Absence
7 April 2022
The Iterative Power of Architecture’s Absence7 April 2022
…from any significant architectonic communication. Neither the buildings’ materiality, nor their facade treatments are explained. This introduction of a new scale combined with an immaterial (or, impossible) architecture echoes an…
Pan Scroll Zoom 11: Architecten Jan De Vylder Inge Vinck
19 April 2021
Pan Scroll Zoom 11: Architecten Jan De Vylder Inge Vinck19 April 2021
– Fabrizio Gallanti, Inge Vinck and Jan De Vylder
…the materials and their properties, is radically different from using the computer. With the computer the real tension is towards perfecting the final output, while when one does things by…
Pan Scroll Zoom (series)