Design Starts: Loughborough School of Architecture at Shatwell Farm
3 May 2022
Design Starts: Loughborough School of Architecture at Shatwell Farm3 May 2022
…Charles Percier (1764–1838), perspective, projet d’un Muséum Idéal, 1796. Pencil, pen, ink, and wash, 457 × 584 mm. DMC 3291. Nyewuna Amadi’s response to Percier’s drawing. Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959),…
Robert Bray: Six Designs for a Playboy Penthouse Pad
12 May 2016
Robert Bray: Six Designs for a Playboy Penthouse Pad12 May 2016
…a terrace; others house sauna, shower and lavatory.’, featured in Playboy Magazine, January 1970. Gouache on board, image 450 × 450 mm. DMC 2640.3. As the research project and exhibition Playboy…
Gathered Moments: Asplund’s Villa Snellman
28 September 2023
Gathered Moments: Asplund’s Villa Snellman28 September 2023
…570 × 648 mm. 1694.2. Excerpted from Andrew Carr, ‘Cathedrals on the light of a butterfly’s wings: the momentary architecture of Virginia Woolf’, Arq: Architectural Research Quarterly, 27(1) (2023). doi:10.1017/S1359135523000088….
Ludwig Wittgenstein (and Gustav III of Sweden), designing gardens
15 February 2024
Ludwig Wittgenstein (and Gustav III of Sweden), designing gardens15 February 2024
…Cambridge on this letter here. Another Amateur Garderner—King Gustav III of Sweden’s sketch for Project of Parnassus, Drottningholm, 1784, on ‘normal letter paper'[1]—recently on display in the exhibition Trädgården (The…
A Lung for the City (1984)
27 November 2015
A Lung for the City (1984)27 November 2015
Cedric Price (1934–2003), Competition entry for the Parc de la Villette, Paris, 1982–1983. Ithograph on paper with painted mylar overlay, 350 × 465 mm. DMC 1438. The following has been…
Invisible Architecture – Blurring Boundaries
19 January 2017
Invisible Architecture – Blurring Boundaries19 January 2017
Adolfo Natalini (1941–2020), Collage, Continuous Monument Sul Lago 1969/2015, 1969–2015. Photo-collage with pen and ink on wove paper; pen & ink on trace; pen & ink paper cut-out , 345…
From Diderot to Tokyo: Mechanical, Subjective and Digital Time
23 June 2021
From Diderot to Tokyo: Mechanical, Subjective and Digital Time23 June 2021
…Tokyo, 1993. Courtesy of Bolles+Wilson. Bolles+Wilson, plans, Suzuki House, Tokyo, 1993. Courtesy of Bolles+Wilson. First published in A Handful of Productive Paradigms (BOLLES+WILSON, 2009). Note We recently spoke to the…
Florian Beigel & Kisa Kawakami
19 January 2018
Florian Beigel & Kisa Kawakami19 January 2018
– Florian Beigel and Philip Christou
…design of the Yokohama Port Terminal Competition. The design team included: Florian Beigel, Suresh A’Raj, Ada Yvars Bravo, Philip Christou, Rex Henry, Kisa Kawakami, with advice from Martin Manning of Ove…
Diplomatics and Instrumentality of the Drawing / William Butterfield
21 August 2023
Diplomatics and Instrumentality of the Drawing / William Butterfield21 August 2023
…on 27 and 28 April 2023. More about the symposium, and other films and written papers, can be found here. https://youtu.be/hQvgkY-DAa8 In this film, Nicholas Olsberg discusses William Butterfield’s alterations of…
Foster + Partners: CLEVELAND CLINIC HEALTH EDUCATION CAMPUS
26 July 2018
Foster + Partners: CLEVELAND CLINIC HEALTH EDUCATION CAMPUS26 July 2018
…glance the complex inner workings that are otherwise hidden behind the building’s finished surfaces. This drawing was one of the architectural coordination drawings presented in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2017, curated by Farshid Moussavi. …
In the Archive: OMA, Neutelings, Hejduk, Gowan
1 March 2020
In the Archive: OMA, Neutelings, Hejduk, Gowan1 March 2020
– Richard Hall and Emma Rutherford
…drawers—with little knowledge of their contents—our interests, enthusiasms and points-of-reference provide a comfortable way in; the beginnings of a conversation. In our case, OMA became the point of departure for…
The Birds’ Morning Hymn (1929)
10 July 2020
The Birds’ Morning Hymn (1929)10 July 2020
– Robert Lorimer
…Sir Robert Lorimer (London: Country Life: 1931), 3–4. Robert Lorimer (1864–1929), panel design with honeysuckle, birds, fruit and flowers; possibly for a pelmet, c.1891. Pencil and coloured crayons on wove…
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