Craving Primal Architecture
17 August 2021
Craving Primal Architecture17 August 2021
β Rory Chisholm
…Primitive Future (Tokyo: INAX-Shuppan, 2008). Carl Sagan, Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean), 1980. Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Sense and Non-Sense, (Evanston: Northwester University Press; 1964, Reprint edition)….
Brunswick Centre
5 December 2016
Brunswick Centre5 December 2016
β Peter Myers
…rendering of the civic inclusiveness of the whole assembly: here was the possibility of an intriguing drawing of an only-just-forty-years-old Patrick Hodgkinson’s radically new urban ‘Type Specimen’(and so far, far beyond either Sant’ Elia or…
Trees Make A Plan
7 October 2020
Trees Make A Plan7 October 2020
β Sylvia Lavin
…On the relationship of orthography to the territorial survey, see Anthony Gerbino, ‘Mastering the Landscape: Geometric Survey in Sixteenth-Century France,’ The Art Bulletin 100, no. 4 (2018): 7–33. On anachronism, see Alexander Nagel and Christopher S. Wood, Anachronic Renaissance (New…
The Ulysses Project: Architecture and the city through James Joyceβs Dublin: Introduction
8 June 2022
The Ulysses Project: Architecture and the city through James Joyceβs Dublin: Introduction8 June 2022
…postscript: Trieste-Zurich-Paris 1914-1921. Perhaps this meant that the fabric of the city was simply a neutral backdrop – the projection screen for a brilliant mind – or perhaps it’s more…
Erik Gunnar Asplund at Drawing Matter
2 April 2024
Erik Gunnar Asplund at Drawing Matter2 April 2024
β Editors and Nicholas Olsberg
…plans, Villa Snellman, Djursholm, Sweden, 1917. Black ink on blue linen, 570 × 648 mm. DMC 1694.1. Erik Gunnar Asplund (1885–1940), first floor plans, roof design, Villa Snellman, Djursholm, Sweden,…
Guy DebordβAn Art of War
29 November 2023
Guy DebordβAn Art of War29 November 2023
β Laurence Le Bras and Emmanuel Guy
…no. 14, 30 November 1954. Text reprinted in Oeuvres, p. 171. Guy Debord, ‘Théorie de la dérive’, Les Levres nues, no. 9, November 1956. Text reprinted in Oeuvres, p. 251. Ibid., p. 257. Guy Debord, In girum imus…
Halsey Ricardo
22 June 2019
Halsey Ricardo22 June 2019
β Nicholas Olsberg
…a picture gallery for Constantine Alexander Ionides, Hove, 1891. RIBA Collections. Richard Norman Shaw (1831–1912), Cragside, Rothbury, Northumberland, 1870. RIBA Collections. George Edmund Street (1824–1881), Contract drawing for alterations to…
The ‘indispensable ingredients of sublimity’: Smirke and Papworth’s Designs for the Wellington Testimonial
20 November 2023
The ‘indispensable ingredients of sublimity’: Smirke and Papworth’s Designs for the Wellington Testimonial20 November 2023
β Colum O'Riordan
…Wilkins (1778–1839), David Hamilton (1768–1843), Sir Robert Smirke (1780-1867), George Papworth (1781–1855), John Bowden (d. 1822) and Dr. Edward Hill (1741–1830). Detail of NLI PD AD 1925 showing Papworth’s obelisk…
Materia 3: Red Oxide
30 September 2022
Materia 3: Red Oxide30 September 2022
β Gordon Shrigley
…Press, 2017), p. 96. In 2017 English Heritage commissioned conservators Crick-Smith, to research the original colour of the existing cast-iron elements of Iron Bridge. Their research revealed that ‘The dark…
Claude Parent at Drawing Matter
12 September 2024
Claude Parent at Drawing Matter12 September 2024
β Editors and ChloΓ© Parent
…DMC 3830.3. Habitoit – Habitas, 1966. Pencil on paper, 210 × 270 mm. DMC 3830.4. Unknown theatre project, 1970. Ink on thin paper, 210 × 270 mm. DMC 3830.47. Unknown…
Behind the Lines 10
19 June 2019
Behind the Lines 1019 June 2019
β Philippa Lewis
…of the £1000 All British House competition, The Builder, 1932. Rose and Abram, ‘third premiated design’, £1000 All British House, The Builder, 1932. When Samuel Hardy turned over the page…
plan competition presentation exhibition behind the lines (series) creative writing DMC