Alternative Histories: dePaor on Hans Poelzig
9 February 2019
Alternative Histories: dePaor on Hans Poelzig9 February 2019
dePaor, Hans Poelzig’s sketch for the Grosses Schauspielhaus, 2018. One 210 × 305 mm sheet of 300gsm watercolour paper, one paperclip, 60 × 60 × 220 mm. Hans Poelzig (1869–1936),…
Alternative Histories: Point Supreme Architects on Adolfo Natalini
21 March 2019
Alternative Histories: Point Supreme Architects on Adolfo Natalini21 March 2019
Point Supreme Architects, Adolfo Natalini’s elevation with people and birds, 2018. Marble, wood, brass, 200 × 200 × 200 mm. Adolfo Natalini (1941–2020), Piccolo Tempio della Ragione from Sketchbook 10,…
Alternative Histories: ONO Architectuur on James Gowan
15 July 2019
Alternative Histories: ONO Architectuur on James Gowan15 July 2019
ONO architectuur, James Gowan’s elevation, 2018. Aluminium, grey paint (lacquer: RAL 7035), 80 × 80 × 130 mm. James Gowan (1923–2015), elevation, University of Leicester, Engineering Building, 1959–1963. Pencil on…
Alternative Histories: EM2N on Alexander Brodsky
8 July 2019
Alternative Histories: EM2N on Alexander Brodsky8 July 2019
EM2N, Alexander Brodsky’s three plans, 2018. Polyester cube, light base, 185 × 177 × 275 mm. Alexander Brodsky (1955), Three Plans, 2016. Pencil on tracing paper, 485 × 320 mm….
Opportunism
2 June 2022
Opportunism2 June 2022
– Richard Hall and Emma Rutherford
…‘The Sparkling Metropolis’, Guggenheim, New York (1978). See also various discussions on the exhibition in: Christophe van Gerrewey (Ed.), OMA/Rem Koolhaas: A Critical Reader, (Basel: Birkhäuser, 2019), pp.26-61. See related reading….
Accademia Bridge Proposals: Venice Biennale 1985
28 April 2023
Accademia Bridge Proposals: Venice Biennale 198528 April 2023
– Editors
…in the 1930s. Wilson and Deleu’s projects join two imposing drawings—each about 2 x 1.5m—by Dario Passi for the same project, one of which now hangs in Drawing Matter’s office. …
Behind the Lines 1
22 September 2017
Behind the Lines 122 September 2017
…Well, that’s ruined it, he mutters to himself – still if that’s what it takes… At 9 Bemersyde Drive a male voice shouts out, ‘Who’s cut up my bloomin’ magazine?’…
Christmas Reading List 2020
22 December 2020
Christmas Reading List 202022 December 2020
– Editors
…2.6.20 Stirling at Stuttgart: Review View / Up Views By John Tuomey, published 15.6.20 Soane: Energy and Frustration By Ptolemy Dean, published 24.6.20 Just Begin: The Convent Sainte-Marie-de-la-Tourette By Stan…
On William Kent (1771)
19 May 2020
On William Kent (1771)19 May 2020
William Kent (1685–1748), Sketch view of Windsor Castle, Windsor, England, 1740. Pen and black ink with wash on laid paper, 201 × 324 mm. DMC 1676. Here is Walpole’s famous…
Gavin Stamp: Interwar, British Architecture 1919-1939
8 July 2024
Gavin Stamp: Interwar, British Architecture 1919-19398 July 2024
– Otto Saumarez Smith
…One of Stamp’s longest-running conservation battles, for Giles Gilbert Scott’s Battersea Power Station (described by Summerson as ‘Gavin Stamp’s billiard table’), has finally come to fruition with its reuse; but…
urban form DMC sketch theoretical & imaginary