Alternative Histories: Edelaar Mosayebi Inderbitzin Architekten on Alvar Aalto
29 July 2019
Alternative Histories: Edelaar Mosayebi Inderbitzin Architekten on Alvar Aalto29 July 2019
Edelaar Mosayebi Inderbitzin Architekten, Alvar Aalto’s elevation of an administrative and cultural centre for the city of Jyväskylä, 2018. Paper, paste, 515 × 290 × 250 mm. Alvar Aalto (1898–1976),…
Ghost Parking Lot
10 March 2023
Ghost Parking Lot10 March 2023
…a tearful ceremony the car was laid to rest, complete with a glove-compartment time capsule filled with the young war hero’s medals. James Wines (1932–), Ghost Parking Lot, Hamden Mall,…
In the Archive: Petit, Lebas, Fontaine, Le Corbusier and Kolář
4 October 2022
In the Archive: Petit, Lebas, Fontaine, Le Corbusier and Kolář4 October 2022
…1052.2.21), Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine (DMC 1853) and Jiří Kolář (DMC 1489r). Lebas’ nineteenth century studies of Rome, contained in an eighty-three-page…
Grounded: Plans & Planning
29 April 2020
Grounded: Plans & Planning29 April 2020
– Richard Hall and Niall Hobhouse
…345 mm. DMC 2947.1. Le Corbusier (1887–1965), Sketch (numbered ‘–3’) for the Governor’s Palace, Chandigarh, India, Entrance, 1953. Pen, pencil and coloured pencil on paper, torn from a sketchbook in…
Álvaro Siza: Sense Making
22 September 2017
Álvaro Siza: Sense Making22 September 2017
…× 210 mm. DMC 2618. Álvaro Siza (1933), page from the Royal Academy Columns sketchbook, 2013. Pen and ink on paper, 295 × 210 mm. DMC 2618.4. In 2015 three…
Narrative Architecture
10 March 2017
Narrative Architecture10 March 2017
Nigel Coates, Caffè Bongo, Tokyo, 1988. Graphite, acrylic and oil pastel on paper, 420 × 590 mm. © Nigel Coates. Executed after it opened, this drawing captures the intended vibrancy…
Architecture as an Instruction-Based Art
13 June 2017
Architecture as an Instruction-Based Art13 June 2017
…such as pipes, conduits, expansion joints, ducts, electrical wiring and fixtures, as well as doors, windows, stairs, walls and roofs, relate to each other, and determine the part each will…
Oscar Niemeyer’s Cathedral in Brasília
30 November 2022
Oscar Niemeyer’s Cathedral in Brasília30 November 2022
…Pesadelo’, in Brasília: Antologia Crítica (São Paulo: Cosac Naify, 2012), p.200. Shelagh Suzanne Nation, The Background, Architectural Philosophy and Work of Hellmut Wilhelm Ernst Stauch (University of Pretoria, 1985), p.107….
Philip Webb
23 December 2016
Philip Webb23 December 2016
…the two wings (a-a) to fall back. The alternate leafage (B) to have its three leaves (b-b-b) kept most forward: The two leaves (c-e) intermediate and the horns (d-d) farthest…
Where function ends: the Architecture of Sir Edwin Lutyens
14 July 2019
Where function ends: the Architecture of Sir Edwin Lutyens14 July 2019
…Lutyens (1869–1944), Stable blocks, Imperial Delhi, 1918. Pencil, pen and ink on linen, 775 × 1230 mm. DMC 1578. Edwin Lutyens (1869–1944), Sketch, Possibly Cathedral Church of the Redemption, New…
The Conservative (1941)
6 July 2020
The Conservative (1941)6 July 2020
…credit all the winter through. ‘The Conservative’ (1941), excerpted from Graham Greene: Collected Essays (London: The Bodley Head, 1969), 359–361. Notes Campden: xxxiv Engravings after Pen Drawings, by F. L. Griggs. R.A….
Geography of Hope: Bruce Goff
17 February 2023
Geography of Hope: Bruce Goff17 February 2023
– Nicholas Olsberg
…a Greek theatre or Mayan ziggurat. Bruce Goff (1904–1982), Dewlen House, Amarillo, Texas, 1956. Scheme 1, no. 5, coloured brownline print, side elevations. DMC 2953.5. From the centre of the…
landscape land DMC