CP138 Gordon Matta-Clark: Readings of the Archive (2020) – Review
7 May 2022
CP138 Gordon Matta-Clark: Readings of the Archive (2020) – Review7 May 2022
…mother’s letters to the artist’s father, the painter Roberto Matta Echauren, and her subsequent correspondence with Isamu Noguchi. This woman – an artist named variously Anne or Anna, Clark, or…
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
…work to Robert Venturi: ‘I watched as he was manufactured into an architectural guru before my eyes and to some extent, on the basis of our joint work and the work…
The Routledge Companion to Architectural Drawings and Models (2021) – Review
24 November 2022
The Routledge Companion to Architectural Drawings and Models (2021) – Review24 November 2022
…with the disassembly of Robert Venturi’s desk. He faced the critical task of deciding what to and what not to keep. His description of what was on the desk prompts…
Geography of Hope: Bruce Goff
17 February 2023
Geography of Hope: Bruce Goff17 February 2023
…land art that would appear a generation later, including Robert Smithson’s Amarillo spiral bank, on a site close by; and perhaps we can see between the grounded, commanding posture of…
Louis-Hippolyte Lebas at Drawing Matter
27 May 2024
Louis-Hippolyte Lebas at Drawing Matter27 May 2024
– Editors and Nicholas Olsberg
…others, Jean-Nicolas Huyot (1780–1840), François Debret (1777–1850), Charles Robert Cockerell (1788–1863) and Louis-Hippolyte Lebas (1782–1867). Similar albums compiled by Hurtault can be found in the Bibliothèque Nationale, France. Louis-Hippolyte Lebas…
Shed for Carolyn
26 January 2023
Shed for Carolyn26 January 2023
…for Carolyn was a project to rehabilitate a small plot of concreted land at the end of Hilary and Robert’s – my parents – garden. They moved to Carolyn, a…
Aldo Rossi: ‘Shards’ and Smooth Surfaces for an Architecture of Longue Durée
3 April 2023
Aldo Rossi: ‘Shards’ and Smooth Surfaces for an Architecture of Longue Durée3 April 2023
…vita. Relazione, 1974 (Fondazione Aldo Rossi, Milan). On these issues, see Roberto Gargiani, Razionalismo emozionale per l’identità democratica nazionale 1945-1966 (Milan: Skira Editore, 2020), pp.29-33. Op. cit., ‘The Architecture and…
DMJ 1 – The Geological Imagination
28 April 2023
DMJ 1 – The Geological Imagination28 April 2023
– Mark Dorrian and Kurt Forster
…Bernard Siegert returns us to the artist Robert Smithson, whose 1969 Asphalt Rundown we have already encountered in Nicholas Boyarsky’s contribution. Siegert examines Smithson’s map constructions, relating them to his…
Instagram, Indifference, and Postcritique in US Architectural Discourse
5 July 2023
Instagram, Indifference, and Postcritique in US Architectural Discourse5 July 2023
…digitising rare archival content, including lowbrow and kitsch artefacts. The forms of taste that facilitate Kovacs’s acquisitions is highly connoisseurial, and in the tradition of Robert Venturi, the low-taste artefacts…
Portals: The Visionary Architecture of Paul Goesch (2023) – Review
29 September 2023
Portals: The Visionary Architecture of Paul Goesch (2023) – Review29 September 2023
…many subjects. Robert Wiesenberger and Raphael Koenig, Portals: The Visionary Architecture of Paul Goesch (2023) is published by Yale University Press. Copies of the book can be purchased here. Stan…
Simon Fraser University
1 February 2024
Simon Fraser University1 February 2024
…first place and the runners-up were Rhone and Iredale (William R. Rhone and W. Randle Iredale, second place); Zoltan Kiss (third); Robert F. Harrison (fourth); and Duncan S. McNab and…
The Evolving Role of Drawing
29 April 2022
The Evolving Role of Drawing29 April 2022
– Nicholas Olsberg
…studies that could have been Hubert Robert’s nearly 200 years before. We think of Wright talking then of his draughtsman Jack Howe as ‘the pencil in my hand’, of Will…
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