Walter Pichler: Mystery and Mysticism
19 February 2021
Walter Pichler: Mystery and Mysticism19 February 2021
Walter Pichler (1936–2012), sketches for the Underground City, 1960–1964. 215 × 279 mm. DMC 2327.32r. Walter Pichler’s sketches for the utopian city projects he developed with Hans Hollein in the…
Dessiner pour Bâtir
13 December 2017
Dessiner pour Bâtir13 December 2017
Louis Le Vau (1612–1670), Château de Meudon, c.1656–1657. Pencil, pen, ink and wash on watermarked laid paper, 267 × 700 mm. DMC 2652.b. 13 December 2017 – 12 March 2018, Archives Nationales…
Hugh Ferriss
4 October 2018
Hugh Ferriss4 October 2018
Hugh Ferriss (1889–1962), aerial perspective, buildings in the Modeling Project, 1924. Conté crayon on board, 318 × 813 mm. © MoMA Collections. In 1916 a series of laws came into…
Lütjens Padmanabhan Architekten: Sketch modelling
9 February 2017
Lütjens Padmanabhan Architekten: Sketch modelling9 February 2017
– Oliver Lütjens and Thomas Padmanabhan
Lütjens Padmanabhan Architekten, Model of House Binningen II, Binningen, Switzerland, 2014. Foam board and coloured paper. © Lütjens Padmanabhan Architekten. Hard lead pencils are unforgiving and require concentration, precision and…
Two ideas of the House
9 May 2017
Two ideas of the House9 May 2017
…term, Autumn 1975. One was Le Corbusier’s drawing of the interior of the mass production Artisans’ Dwellings project, included in Vers Une Architecture (Editions Cres Paris, 1923). The other is the painting…
BOLLES+WILSON: Sketching-Over Albania
27 May 2021
BOLLES+WILSON: Sketching-Over Albania27 May 2021
…from the sketch+note technique (figs. 11–14). Fig. 11: plan of the City Library, Korça. Fig. 12: reception and entrance to the City Library. Fig. 13: facade, City Library. Fig. 14:…
Álvaro Siza: Drawn Closer
11 June 2020
Álvaro Siza: Drawn Closer11 June 2020
…× 210 mm. DMC 2503. Álvaro Siza (1933), early sketches for Quinta da Malagueira, Évora, 1977. Pen and ink, 295 × 210 mm. DMC 2503. Álvaro Siza (1933), early sketches…
Urban Form
17 September 2024
Urban Form17 September 2024
…Idea: Urban Readings and Interventions as Experiment and Ideology—with David Madden, Director of the LSE Cities Programme: Thursday, 3rd October 2024, 3–5pm: LSE, Vera Anstey Room, Old Building, Houghton Street. The…
The Architect and the Matador
8 February 2021
The Architect and the Matador8 February 2021
Eugène Viollet-le-Duc (1814–1879), Sketch of bullfight, 1872. DMC 3106.4. Eugène Viollet-le-Duc (1814–1879), Detail of width of pier and arch, c.1849. DMC 3106.5r. On one sheet, a matador; on the other,…
Future Scenarios, Part II
31 May 2016
Future Scenarios, Part II31 May 2016
– Niall Hobhouse and Nicholas Olsberg
…anchor. Charles Stanislas Leveillé (1772–1833), Capriccio of Three Men Within a Gothic Ruin, c.1805. Black ink, watercolour and gouache on laid paper, 385 × 307 mm. DMC 1738. Desprez’s ancient…
Gothic Put to Use: The Viollet-le-Duc Album
6 October 2023
Gothic Put to Use: The Viollet-le-Duc Album6 October 2023
…Viollet-le-Duc, Architecture and the Historical Imagination: Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (Ashgate, 2014), and co-editor of Gothic Revival Worldwide. A.W.N. Pugin’s Global Influence (Leuven University Press, 2017), The Companions to the History of…
Gabriel Pierre Martin Dumont
7 January 2018
Gabriel Pierre Martin Dumont7 January 2018
– Editors
……’, 1768. Gabriel Pierre Martin Dumont, Plan from ‘Details of the most interesting part of the Basilica of St Peter’s in Rome, drawn on site …’, 1768. Having studied under…
presentation garden DMC plan