WORKSHOP: A Shed at Shatwell Farm (deadline PASSED)
2 February 2021
WORKSHOP: A Shed at Shatwell Farm (deadline PASSED)2 February 2021
…ecosystem, a community of interacting organisms, introducing new elements into Gowan’s architecture like rainwater, animals, plants, soil. The workshop will be an opportunity to integrate natural elements and living things…
Freddie Phillipson ‘The Ulysses Project’ β Review
18 July 2022
Freddie Phillipson ‘The Ulysses Project’ β Review18 July 2022
β Peter Carl
…image to suggest urban life in general; and the second register comprises detailed explorations of critical settings, such as the Freemason’s Journal building, the school, Bloom’s house, etc., where furniture…
The Iconography of Desolation
17 February 2020
The Iconography of Desolation17 February 2020
β Robert Smithson
…Tad Swule for the Times, ‘It is known that the Administration wishes to complete the tests as rapidly as possible.’ Applause. A collection is taken up for the War Against Mouth-Rot….
R for Representation
27 September 2021
R for Representation27 September 2021
β Ralf Liptau
…comes to questions of representation – for example, in comparison to sketches and drawings? The main characteristic is obvious: a model presents its ‘content’ in three dimensions. It is an…
Netherfield Scroll One
28 August 2018
Netherfield Scroll One28 August 2018
β Chris Cross, Jeremy Dixon and Edward Jones
…computer. Our low key drawing style also anticipated computer graphics. The long drawing overall plan does not show the planting ideas that were developed. These are shown with other developments on…
Quantum Collecting: A Few Principles and Mechanisms for the Acquisition of Architectural Drawings
6 November 2023
Quantum Collecting: A Few Principles and Mechanisms for the Acquisition of Architectural Drawings6 November 2023
β Niall Hobhouse and Matt Page
…presentation or construction drawings. Download the full text here.Download A version of this text was first presented by Niall Hobhouse at the 2021 edition of the Lucerne Talks, the biennial…
Materia 3: Red Oxide
30 September 2022
Materia 3: Red Oxide30 September 2022
β Gordon Shrigley
…intentioned, may have come to blind us to the common value of the simple art of architecture, which as of late has come by and by, to be bypassed by…
Yacht Club Path
2 August 2018
Yacht Club Path2 August 2018
β Alberto Ponis
…has the combination of geometric and informal lines. What Italo Calvino calls the crystal and the flame – the straight line and the free one – the combination of these…
DMJ β Asphalt Tales and the Ends of History
3 March 2023
DMJ β Asphalt Tales and the Ends of History3 March 2023
…99. Sabrina Tanovic, Designing Memory. The Architecture of Commemoration in Europe 1914 to the Present (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), 51. Download the full article as a printable PDFDownload DMJournal–Architecture…
The Language of Architecture: Peter MΓ€rkliβs system of proportion
15 June 2021
The Language of Architecture: Peter MΓ€rkliβs system of proportion15 June 2021
β Stacey Lewis
…significance during the eighteenth century when it became a matter of individual sensibility and in this respect, the architect acquired complete freedom; an attitude to which most architects operate today….
DMJ β Borrominiβs Smudge
15 November 2022
DMJ β Borrominiβs Smudge15 November 2022
β Jonathan Foote
…Giorgio Vasari. It has since become commonplace to analyse Borromini’s plan of San Carlino, for example, by extracting a rigid framework of lines, arcs and circles to discover the underlying…
Grotto-Heavens: Rockeries, Dreamscapes and the Chinese Garden
20 January 2023
Grotto-Heavens: Rockeries, Dreamscapes and the Chinese Garden20 January 2023
β Ethan Loo
…open and in constant transformation. Download the full article as a printable PDFDownload DMJournal–Architecture and Representation No. 1: The Geological Imagination Edited by Mark Dorrian and Kurt Forster ISSN 2753-5010…
Ila BΓͺka & Louise Lemoine on the Moriyama House
28 February 2023
Ila BΓͺka & Louise Lemoine on the Moriyama House28 February 2023
β What is a House For and BΓͺka & Lemoine
…of openness, which in our culture would be associated with innocence—too much is lost through our own social conditioning. But we should be careful not to forget too much. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Egr2BAdXZA4…
W. R. Lethaby: The Builder’s Art and the Craftsman
24 October 2022
W. R. Lethaby: The Builder’s Art and the Craftsman24 October 2022
β Hugh Strange
…later with the introduction of obligatory examinations to qualify for Associateship of the RIBA in 1882. Following an unsuccessful passage through Parliament in 1889, a Bill advocating formal registration was…
Pan Scroll Zoom 4: Pezo von Ellrichshausen
18 November 2020
Pan Scroll Zoom 4: Pezo von Ellrichshausen18 November 2020
β Sofia von Ellrichshausen, Fabrizio Gallanti and Mauricio Pezo
…creativity while eroding the preconceptions of formal composition. The starting point is rather arbitrary like any commission one might receive in a professional practice or any constraint imposed by the…
Materia 5: Timber
18 April 2023
Materia 5: Timber18 April 2023
β Gordon Shrigley
…at what we understand as ‘style’. Or to put it another way: the complex sense of dynamic equilibrium that we associate with a recognisable configuration of identical lines upon and…
Open Letters: Harvard GSD
2 December 2022
Open Letters: Harvard GSD2 December 2022
β Paul Mosley
…campus’ is that it was simply that – a wall – unadorned, proportionate, and absolute. During the 2020 BLM protests, when I learned that it’s likely Beverly Loraine Greene helped…
Raffaello. Nato architetto (2023) β Review
30 October 2023
Raffaello. Nato architetto (2023) β Review30 October 2023
β Dario Donetti
…Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, explored the project by means of computer-aided modelling, i.e., through a video responding to the spatial complexity of the scheme. This approach was responsive to…
Connor Street: Made by Many Hands
3 November 2023
Connor Street: Made by Many Hands3 November 2023
β Kieran Hawkins
…hempcrete in a new external wall. Photo by David Grandorge. Comparative sketches of initial strategies. Usually, we begin a design with sketch plans to test the relationships of layout options…
Drawing Powers: Introduction
2 November 2021
Drawing Powers: Introduction2 November 2021
β Fernando Poeiras
…examples from the Drawing Matter Collection. You can download all parts in this series here.Download There is an enormous difference between seeing a thing without a pencil in your hand…
Heinz Isler Model
2 November 2022
Heinz Isler Model2 November 2022
β John Chilton and Paul Shepherd
…basis for a recent research project of mine to develop efficient concrete floors using computational design. By combining digital form-finding with robotic fabrication, my team and I managed to develop…
DMC concept & diagram