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Peter Wilson in the Empire of Signs
22 May 2024
Peter Wilson in the Empire of Signs22 May 2024
…and stimulates. It is the regenerative water in which Sigfried Giedion placed hope in Mechanization Takes Command (1948) and also the non-technologised liquid that Ivan Illich would write of in his Bachelardian…
Syon House and the Afterlife of Architectural Drawing
22 April 2022
Syon House and the Afterlife of Architectural Drawing22 April 2022
…of the developed surface by making contact with the world beyond the highly controlled decorative scheme of the architect would disrupt the order of the drawing and therefore appear to…
Dance Dance Revolution
30 December 2018
Dance Dance Revolution30 December 2018
…Chausée d’Antin, where he would cover the house of his lover and future wife, Mademoiselle Anne-Victoire Dervieux, in arabesques. In 1785, Dervieux had asked Bélanger to update the lavish residence…
Owen Luder: Practice at Work
3 January 2023
Owen Luder: Practice at Work3 January 2023
…say, £500,000 in order to keep afloat and it becomes obvious, as the OP partners agree, that the right way of running a practice is of cardinal importance. The right…
Architecture in Archives: The Collection of the Akademie der Künste (2016) – Review
10 February 2023
Architecture in Archives: The Collection of the Akademie der Künste (2016) – Review10 February 2023
Archives, particularly architecture archives, are having a moment. Writers of postcolonial histories increasingly wrangle with their neatly preserved and selected records. Predominantly, documentary evidence under archival care formed the basis…
Alexander Brodsky
15 October 2016
Alexander Brodsky15 October 2016
Alexander Brodsky, Untitled, 2014. Unfired clay, 840 × 1750 mm. Courtesy the artist and Betts Project. There is someone behind Alexander Brodsky’s unfired clay facades. It might be a housekeeper…
The changing metropolis 1815–1900
27 November 2013
The changing metropolis 1815–190027 November 2013
– Niall Hobhouse and Nicholas Olsberg
…of its built works, and from which that broader visual geography derives. We begin as the Napoleonic era ends, and the first modern waves of massive urbanisation in the western…
DMJ – The Stereoautograph
6 December 2023
DMJ – The Stereoautograph6 December 2023
…Zeiss Archive in 2004, the Technical University of Hanover had to remove part of its roof in order to lift it out by crane. In the era of GPS and…
Trees Make A Plan
7 October 2020
Trees Make A Plan7 October 2020
…bring specimens close to the observer and to move into the field in order to study the lives of plants al vivo. This double vantage point structures sixteenth-century herbaria, in which…
Analoge Architektur: Fire Station Project
8 December 2021
Analoge Architektur: Fire Station Project8 December 2021
…sensual. Daniel Studer with Analoge Architektur, preliminary interior studies, Fire Station Project, c.1986-7. Daniel Studer with Analoge Architektur, exterior study, Fire Station Project, c.1986-7. Notes Miroslav Sik, Analoge Architektur for…
Re-presenting the Rococo
24 February 2021
Re-presenting the Rococo24 February 2021
…Michael is a key example of Fischer’s work and of the wider German rococo movement and there is no shortage of written and visual information available, at least in terms…
Learning from the tortoise
9 August 2019
Learning from the tortoise9 August 2019
– William Firebrace
…it arrives sooner than the hare – or according to the even older paradox of Zeno it always arrives before the mighty runner Achilles. Slowness is usually seen as a…
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