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Objects That Meet
15.08.2022
Objects That Meet15.08.2022
…particularly in the eyes of connoisseurs. Lifted out of this spectrum and off the floor, placed on the imaginary marble slab and put under dissection – under reduction to non-reducible…
The Project of Independence: Architectures of Decolonization in South Asia, 1947-1985 (2022) – Review
10.11.2022
The Project of Independence: Architectures of Decolonization in South Asia, 1947-1985 (2022) – Review10.11.2022
…David Almeida. MoMA has done its part by employing its own perception of display-worthy artefacts of modern architecture and expanding its geographical scope in order to participate in the writing…
W. R. Lethaby: Philip Webb and His Work
03.02.2023
W. R. Lethaby: Philip Webb and His Work03.02.2023
…William Lethaby’s great hero; he considered his life and work the model for an architect. Webb was a generation older than Lethaby, and the two men most likely first met…
Material Reform, Building for a Post-Carbon Future (2023) – Review
23.06.2023
Material Reform, Building for a Post-Carbon Future (2023) – Review23.06.2023
…and labour economies behind materials. Alienation, a key concept of Marxism and originally defined by Karl Marx as alienation from the product and process of labour as well as from…
Relics of Electronic Hallucinations
11.07.2024
Relics of Electronic Hallucinations11.07.2024
…the prowess of early electronic computers—initially developed for the Manhattan Project, the T-3 lab, working under the auspices of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission—successfully simulated and visualised the complex behaviour…
Curtains
28.03.2025
Curtains28.03.2025
– Petra Blaisse and Sophie Wehtje
…’emancipated presence—an actor—within the architectural realm’ at the time? Could you say something about how this idea is played out in the NDT? I wonder if the specific type, a stage…
The Destruction of the City of Homs
28.11.2016
The Destruction of the City of Homs28.11.2016
…the conquering armies to move on to further slaughter. This was my thinking behind the triptych, which could be augmented on every side as it doesn’t have a beginning or…
Francesco Milizia on Maderno, Posi and Jonson
07.11.2019
Francesco Milizia on Maderno, Posi and Jonson07.11.2019
…of displeasure would imperceptibly be exited towards the presumptuous Maderno. It is easy to perceive whence this grand defect arises, when we consider the disproportion between the two lateral aisles…
Netherfield Scroll One
28.08.2018
Netherfield Scroll One28.08.2018
– Chris Cross, Jeremy Dixon and Edward Jones
…as a group to Milton Keynes by Derek Walker, then city Architect. Derek enthusiastically supported the emergence of our design and particularly in the form of the long drawing. When…
Staging Brancusi
15.06.2020
Staging Brancusi15.06.2020
– Sarah Handelman and Asli Çiçek
…about the kinds of stages that scenography asks you as an architect to consider. In the context of this show, there is the stage of Brancusi’s re-enacted atelier that for…
Name(r)s of the Animals and Drawers
24.03.2025
Name(r)s of the Animals and Drawers24.03.2025
…Derrida, discusses the anxiety of patriarchal genealogy in relation to giving proper names, or, as called by Derrida, ‘the first violence of language.’ ‘The giving of a proper name is…
Sir John Soane’s Museum: Bound Legacy
09.02.2021
Sir John Soane’s Museum: Bound Legacy09.02.2021
…plan, the reader will be able to obtain an accurate idea of the forms and arrangement of the ground floor…’ Having volunteered at Sir John Soane’s Museum for a number…
Cartographies of the Imagination
04.06.2021
Cartographies of the Imagination04.06.2021
– Kirsty Badenoch and Sayan Skandarajah
…Chinese whispers that anticipates a new and timeless collaborative world. Peter Wilson, Eurolandschaft – A Derive Peter Wilson, Eurolandschaft – A Derive, 1998. Mixed media, 182 × 242 mm. DMC…
Hans Poelzig: Decorating the Empty Centre
01.06.2021
Hans Poelzig: Decorating the Empty Centre01.06.2021
…be satisfying fodder for the architect; he has an inner urge to conceive and erect buildings in which real people come and go, creations that will last, that belong not…
Hélène Binet: The Outsider
19.05.2022
Hélène Binet: The Outsider19.05.2022
…and role. They completely shape our activities and for me as a photographer, they give me a palette to work with. The outsider, the rebel light, doesn’t follow the rules…
Trevor Dannatt’s Riyadh Mosque: A Study in Sacred Space and Cultural Juxtaposition
23.06.2025
Trevor Dannatt’s Riyadh Mosque: A Study in Sacred Space and Cultural Juxtaposition23.06.2025
…the broader urban framework—one that unfolds through movement and inhabitation rather than as a fixed compositional tableau. This strategy aligns with Dannatt’s broader conviction that architecture should ‘create ambience beyond…
Josef Hoffmann: Placeholder Text
18.02.2025
Josef Hoffmann: Placeholder Text18.02.2025
…is an appropriately Werkbund bold sans-serif, yet in this drawing it has no meaning—the words are complete nonsense. It is a placeholder text. In another version of the scheme, the…
Luc Deleu & T.O.P. OFFICE: Future Plans, 1970–2020 (2021) – Review
07.07.2021
Luc Deleu & T.O.P. OFFICE: Future Plans, 1970–2020 (2021) – Review07.07.2021
…than 44 different authors. This constellation of opinions leaves the reader with a fragmented view of the oeuvre, which is in itself multiple and wide-reaching. These collective endeavours are not…
The Values of Profiles (1951)
08.01.2021
The Values of Profiles (1951)08.01.2021
…very well have taken as the noblest ancestry for their works at least certain pieces of cornice which carry famous signatures. Neither should one object to a figurative derivation of…
The Anatomy of the Architectural Book: Magical Moves
06.06.2022
The Anatomy of the Architectural Book: Magical Moves06.06.2022
…thousand-year-old base: ‘It seemed as if the earth shook, and the scaffold let out a great noise as all its timbers tightened under the weight.’ [5] The book aimed to convey…
Insignificance 3: Mourning Work
09.06.2021
Insignificance 3: Mourning Work09.06.2021
…Ebhardt, took over his father’s office. Professor Robert Jan van Pelt: I had a look at the drawings, and they appear typical for the tens of thousands of barracks that…
Disinformation: Closed Circuit
30.06.2021
Disinformation: Closed Circuit30.06.2021
…August 2021. Find full details, here. Notes Ivan Chtcheglov, ‘Formulary for a New Urbanism’, Internationale Situationniste 1, October 1953. Friedrich von Schelling, Philosophie der Kunst, 1802. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cylinder Rudolf Arnheim, Radio,…
Tom de Paor: ‘i see Earth’, Building and Ground 1991–2021 – Review
04.03.2022
Tom de Paor: ‘i see Earth’, Building and Ground 1991–2021 – Review04.03.2022
– Andrew Clancy
…the measure of the earth, and the measure of measure itself. Latent here is architecture’s own history – constantly walking this line between its autonomies and its fundamental interconnection with…
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