Stan Allen
14 September 2021
Stan Allen14 September 2021
…as architect, educator and writer. He has taught at Harvard, Columbia and Princeton, and served as Dean of the School of Architecture at Princeton from 2002 – 2012. His practice…
Alternative Histories: De Smet Vermeulen architecten on Bruce Goff
14 February 2019
Alternative Histories: De Smet Vermeulen architecten on Bruce Goff14 February 2019
De Smet Vermeulen architecten, Bruce Goff’s elevation of the Cox House, 2018. Cardboard, 700 × 630 × 150 mm. Bruce Goff (1904–1982), elevation, Julius Cox House, Oklahoma, 1949. Pencil on…
Trevor Dannatt: St Mary’s Grove — Gap and Sign
13 June 2023
Trevor Dannatt: St Mary’s Grove — Gap and Sign13 June 2023
…today—meant this distinctive tondo was cause of much passing critical comment, from ‘pretentious, moi?’ to ‘wanker!’. Nor had Trevor considered how his brick slot, this almost Lacanian caesura, would provide a…
Alternative Histories: Philip Christou on Le Corbusier
21 March 2019
Alternative Histories: Philip Christou on Le Corbusier21 March 2019
Florian Beigel Architects, Le Corbusier’s design for the ‘Open Hand’ monument, 2018. Brick, 1243 × 420 × 600 mm. Le Corbusier (1887–1965), Open Hand Monument, Bhakra Nangal Dam, Chandigarh, 1956….
Grunt Group: Unrolling the Netherfield Scroll
28 August 2018
Grunt Group: Unrolling the Netherfield Scroll28 August 2018
…for a low-density, social housing estate in Milton Keynes. The following video is a brief selection of highlights from the 30-minute presentation at Shatwell by Cross, Dixon and Gold. https://vimeo.com/287126814…
Grandorge’s Pavilion
21 July 2019
Grandorge’s Pavilion21 July 2019
https://vimeo.com/282816711 The timber pavilion shown in the film is being transported to its third incarnation, and from inside another shed to its second locale in Shatwell farmyard, where it will…
Superstudio: Another Mirror Image
17 February 2021
Superstudio: Another Mirror Image17 February 2021
…dystopian paradise depicted. 9999 (Giorgio Birelli, Carlo Caldini, Fabrizio Fiumi, Paolo Galli), Venezia, 1971. Photocollage. Archivio 9999. Later, in 1982, with Wheatfield – A Confrontation: Battery Park artist Agnes Denes…
Hello Iwona
27 January 2021
Hello Iwona27 January 2021
…all. This friendly ‘Hello!!’ is from someone called Iwona, urging me to ‘treat yourself to a clean house – you deserve [sic].’ There’s nothing linking the advertisement to Gowan’s scribbled…
In the Archive: New and Found 2
12 January 2022
In the Archive: New and Found 212 January 2022
– Editors
…Architectural Notebook of Thomas Hardy, which documents Hardy’s parallel and lesser-known career as an architect. [1] The snippets above show his drawings of a wooden gate, a page of moulding…
Alternative Histories: Hayatsu Architects on Charles-Dominique-Joseph Eisen
6 February 2019
Alternative Histories: Hayatsu Architects on Charles-Dominique-Joseph Eisen6 February 2019
Hayatsu Architects, Charles-Dominique-Joseph Eisen’s frontispiece with design for the primitive hut, 2018. Brass, 170 × 115 × 300 mm. Charles-Dominique-Joseph Eisen (1720–1778), Frontispiece, Marc-Antoine Laugier’s Essai sur l’architecture, c.1754. Pen…
Ange-Jacques Gabriel
22 February 2017
Ange-Jacques Gabriel22 February 2017
Ange-Jacques Gabriel (1698–1782), plan, front and side elevations, Design for a building for Maria Theresa Rafaela of Spain (Madame la Dauphine), c.1745. Black ink, black and coloured washes on paper,…
Behind the Lines 4
28 March 2018
Behind the Lines 428 March 2018
– Philippa Lewis
…– Bird’s eye view (in part) showing the appearance the central avenue would present to the eye, c.1825. Ink, pencil and wash on paper, 185 × 462 mm. DMC 1678.3….
topographic/cartographic presentation housing urban form behind the lines (series) creative writing DMC