Room at the Top?: Kate Macintosh, Denise Scott Brown and the kingmaker-critic
7 March 2022
Room at the Top?: Kate Macintosh, Denise Scott Brown and the kingmaker-critic7 March 2022
…delightfully sarcastic letter: Kate Macintosh (1937), Letter, Dawson’s Heights, Southwark, London, 1973. AJ Journal Archive (1929-2005); May 9, 1973, 19; Art & Architecture Archive pg. 1093. All subsequent publications of…
The Ruined Temple and Oberrealta Chapel
14 April 2022
The Ruined Temple and Oberrealta Chapel14 April 2022
…Swiss Alps. This text was submitted to the General Archive category of the Drawing Matter Writing Prize 2021. Notes John Ruskin, The Seven Lamps of Architecture, 2 ed. (New York City:…
The Evolving Role of Drawing
29 April 2022
The Evolving Role of Drawing29 April 2022
…of drums. It took Neutra and his brilliant colleagues at Taliesin all summer to build this essentially analytic structural archive. Before anyone bewails what digital rendering has done to undermine…
Peter Wilson: Ponte dell’Accademia
26 April 2023
Peter Wilson: Ponte dell’Accademia26 April 2023
In the years prior to the commencement of his major built works, Bridgebuilding No.4 Ponte dell’Accademia holds a critical position within the formative projects of the architect Peter Wilson. The…
Workshop: On Siza’s March ’77 Sketchbook
22 June 2022
Workshop: On Siza’s March ’77 Sketchbook22 June 2022
…ever since – of which there are now over 700 This session was recorded live in the Drawing Matter archive on 5 June 2022. Edited for Drawing Matter by Amy…
Alberto Ponis, The London Years
14 December 2023
Alberto Ponis, The London Years14 December 2023
…1962-67. DMC 3507.28. Financial Times, 6 Feb. 1963, p. 18. From Financial Times Historical Archive, Accessed 8 Aug. 2023. The sketchbook details Ponis’s time in London, where he moved after…
Begin again. Fail Better: Pichler and Hollein
29 May 2024
Begin again. Fail Better: Pichler and Hollein29 May 2024
…the satisfaction a conclusion can bring. Notes ‘Hans Ulrich Obrist in Conversation with Hans Hollein’, E-Flux Journal, 66 (2015), <https://www.e-flux.com/journal/66/60777/in-conversation-with-hans-hollein/> [accessed 3 May 2024]. SCI-Arc Media Archive, Raimund Abraham…
Sydney’s Infill Facades
5 July 2024
Sydney’s Infill Facades5 July 2024
…as the street-level slope falls, creating the familiar and local Sydney rustication. Commonwealth St (9-25) (James Hardie) (01/01/1962 – 31/12/1962), [A-00593275]. City of Sydney Archives. 9-25 Commonwealth Street, Elevation 9-25…
Banham in Buffalo
13 May 2024
Banham in Buffalo13 May 2024
Reyner Banham (1922–1988), ‘Field notes’ on the Larkin Warehouse, Seneca Street, Buffalo, c.1977. Courtesy of the University at Buffalo University Archives. [Our] main emphasis in this course has been on…
Peter Wilson in the Empire of Signs
22 May 2024
Peter Wilson in the Empire of Signs22 May 2024
…to the Kronprinzenbrücke Competition, Berlin (1991). Courtesy Peter Wilson. (Fig. 9) Punch Sofa (1987). Courtesy Peter Wilson. (Fig. 10) Peter Wilson, Paradise Bridge, Amsterdam (1986), Screenprint. Alvin Boyarsky Archive. Here…
Masterplanning the University of London
27 March 2024
Masterplanning the University of London27 March 2024
…acquired for the University’s archive, the plan is decidedly old-fashioned, its style entirely in keeping with the classical porticos found on both the British Museum to the south and UCL’s…
Stirling & Gowan: The Isle of Wight House
21 July 2021
Stirling & Gowan: The Isle of Wight House21 July 2021
– James Gowan, J. M. Richards, Laurent Stalder, James Stirling and Ellis Woodman
…relating to the project, and are grateful for their collaboration; it turned out that Stirling and Gowan had each retained in their personal archives the same rather limited documentation of…
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