Marco Frascari
20 October 2018
Marco Frascari20 October 2018
https://vimeo.com/293133948 Marco Frascari, The Campanone, February 6, 2008. Marco Frascari, The Campanone, March 8, 2008. Architectural theorist and architect Marco Frascari defined the brouillon as a drawing meant to be recopied, times…
SUPA Architects: Naked Plans
6 June 2020
SUPA Architects: Naked Plans6 June 2020
– Christian Schweitzer and Ryul Song
…SUPA Architects, Naked Plan House P Drawing, page 71-107, 2015. Digital drawing. Courtesy SUPA Architects. SUPA Architects, Naked Plan House P Drawing, page 74, 2015. Digital drawing. Courtesy SUPA Architects….
Casswell Bank Architects: The Shed Project
18 September 2016
Casswell Bank Architects: The Shed Project18 September 2016
– Alex Bank and Sam Casswell
Casswell Bank Architects, The Garden Rooms (‘The Shed Project’ Academy Drawing commissioned by Hauser & Wirth), 2015. Print on Hanji paper, 950 × 700 mm. © Casswell Bank Architects. The…
Caruso St John Architects: Cultural and Tourist Centre
18 January 2017
Caruso St John Architects: Cultural and Tourist Centre18 January 2017
Caruso St John, Cultural and Tourist Centre, Ascona, Switzerland, 2004. Giclée print on Hahnemühle 350gsm Matt Fine Art paper, 210 × 168 mm. Caruso St John Architects. We have been…
Patrick Gwynne: Colour by Numbers
7 August 2023
Patrick Gwynne: Colour by Numbers7 August 2023
…‘grey and yellow’, colour combinations of the harmonious use of Oswald’s ‘neutral scale’ with principal hues. Neil Bingham’s new book Patrick Gwynne (Twentieth Century Society/Liverpool University Press, 2023) is available now. Find it here….
Fontaine: Model for a Music Room
4 October 2016
Fontaine: Model for a Music Room4 October 2016
Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine (1762–1853), Drawing model for a Music Room, c.1803. Pen, ink and watercolour on paper, 120 × 185 × 144 mm. DMC 2081. A fresh alternative to the intellectual…
Workshop: On Siza’s March ’77 Sketchbook
22 June 2022
Workshop: On Siza’s March ’77 Sketchbook22 June 2022
https://vimeo.com/722879260 This audio recording documents a workshop on Álvaro Siza’s Malagueira sketchbook delivered by Manuel Montenegro to Masters students from the School of Engineering and Architecture, Fribourg, and their tutors…
Paul Robbrecht
2 November 2016
Paul Robbrecht2 November 2016
…art for the once-every-five-years exhibition known as Documenta. Paul Robbrecht (1950), Aue Paviljoenen: project B, Kassel, Germany, 1992. Ink and watercolour on paper, 297 × 405 mm. DMC 2731.7. It…
Some Thoughts on Sheds
7 October 2016
Some Thoughts on Sheds7 October 2016
…most popular ‘national’ paintings (Andrew Wyeth’s Christina’s World and Grant Wood’s American Gothic); the fisherman’s shed (or ‘shack’ in American usage) at Rockport is known as ‘motif number one’ – for ‘the most…
Drawing Out, Drawing In: Cartographies for ‘Out of the Sea’
24 March 2022
Drawing Out, Drawing In: Cartographies for ‘Out of the Sea’24 March 2022
…faces, my heart, brief as photos (London: Bloomsbury, 2005), p.26. 2. Manuel de Solà-Morales, ‘The Culture of Description,’ Perspecta, vol. 25 (1989), p.18. 3. Ibid., p.18. 4. For more on…
Leicester Engineering building: Two Architects (1964)
26 April 2021
Leicester Engineering building: Two Architects (1964)26 April 2021
https://vimeo.com/501762192/2ffd673127 Ron Parks, “Two Architects,” 1966. Digitised by Drawing Matter from the original 16mm cine film. DMC 2800.3. Filmed in 1964, Ron Parks’ documentary on the newly completed Engineering Department…
On a handrail
30 November 2020
On a handrail30 November 2020
– Jon Lopez
…Sketchbook, Handrails, 1991. Pencil in sketchbook. DMC 2897.13.7 Tony Fretton (1945), Lisson Gallery Sketchbook, Handrails, 1991. Pencil in sketchbook. DMC 2897.13.11 Tony Fretton (1945), Lisson Gallery Sketchbook, Handrails, 1991. Pencil…
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