Trees Push Back
3 November 2020
Trees Push Back3 November 2020
…M. Gunn, The Impact of Geology on the United States: A Reference Guide to Benefits and Hazards (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001); Grant Heiken, Robert H. Fakundiny, and John F….
Palladio’s Lines
15 October 2020
Palladio’s Lines15 October 2020
…various types of building, in which his lines are both the mould and the material. Robert Tavernor has posited that Palladio’s illustrations are almost anatomical, and regards their line quality…
Lauretta Vinciarelli: Homogeneous and Non-Homogeneous Grids
11 March 2021
Lauretta Vinciarelli: Homogeneous and Non-Homogeneous Grids11 March 2021
…of Judd and Robert Morris (1931–2018), to the existential literature of Samuel Beckett, describing it as an endless repetition devoid of any underlying logic or endpoint: ‘To get inside the…
Hans Poelzig: Der Golem
11 March 2021
Hans Poelzig: Der Golem11 March 2021
…of built form. Click here to watch Der Golem (1920) Robert Wightman is a young practitioner in Dublin who is guest lecturing at the School of Architecture at the University…
The Decline of Architectural Drawing (1859)
11 May 2020
The Decline of Architectural Drawing (1859)11 May 2020
Henry Roberts (1803–1876), Fishmongers’ Hall, 1838. Pen, ink, watercolour and bodycolour on thick wove paper, 505 × 747 mm. DMC 2161. The Royal Academy’s 1859 summer exhibition, combined with a…
‘Then There Was War’: John Hejduk’s Silent Witnesses as Nuclear Criticism
19 October 2022
‘Then There Was War’: John Hejduk’s Silent Witnesses as Nuclear Criticism19 October 2022
…Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 2015), pp.171–177; p.171. Roberta Smith, ‘On Kawara, Artist Who Found Elegance in Every Day, Dies at 81’, The New York Times, July 15 (2014). Accessed 20 June…
DMJ – Borromini’s Smudge
15 November 2022
DMJ – Borromini’s Smudge15 November 2022
This text, published alongside Bernhard Siegert’s article ‘From Landscape to Mapscape: Robert Smithson’s Maps’ marks the launch of the first and second issues of DMJournal–Architecture and Representation. Over the coming…
Fronts and Faces
7 October 2022
Fronts and Faces7 October 2022
…and take these to the extreme to tackle frontality. They are much less accurate. They make use of ideas that were refused by clients. They recall Robert Venturi and Denise…
Charles Stanley Peach: Pioneer in Power
8 February 2022
Charles Stanley Peach: Pioneer in Power8 February 2022
…year trying to solve its mysteries), such as that now in the collection of Robert Simon Fine Art in New York (another version also in the RIBA Collection), or on…
Alberto Pérez-Gómez: Architecture as Drawing
28 July 2022
Alberto Pérez-Gómez: Architecture as Drawing28 July 2022
– Mark Dorrian and Alberto Pérez-Gómez
…geometry which allow for a reduction of three-dimensional reality into a system of coordinates and their manipulation independently from intuition, from R. G. Robertson’s Descriptive Geometry (by courtesy of Sir…
Trees Move In
22 October 2020
Trees Move In22 October 2020
– Sylvia Lavin
…University Press, 1978). In response Email to the Drawing Matter Editors from Robert Barnes, May 2021 Although Eisen worked hard to mediate the difference between timber and trees exposed in…
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