Charles de Wailly
10 June 2016
Charles de Wailly10 June 2016
Charles De Wailly (1730–1798), section through the Interior of Salon, 1771. Pen, ink and wash on paper, 490 × 460 mm. The high level of ornamental detail and the conspicuously…
Sigurd Lewerentz: Punctum. seeing the detail
14 February 2022
Sigurd Lewerentz: Punctum. seeing the detail14 February 2022
β Mikael Bergquist
…are very different. Still, they are Sweden’s two foremost modernist villas, each in its own special way. 6. Stairwell in Eneborg’s workers’ housing, Helsingborg, 1911–1918. Photo: SEIER+SEIER (Wikimedia Commons) The workers’ housing in…
Letter to the Editors: What I see in drawings today…
5 July 2021
Letter to the Editors: What I see in drawings today…5 July 2021
β Andrea Leonardi
…today don’t perceive that difference. They do. They design for the world beautiful ‘objects’, gigantic glass boxes, or, as one of them had the guts to do, even absurdly silly…
Survey: Piazza Grande, Gubbio, Perugia
18 August 2021
Survey: Piazza Grande, Gubbio, Perugia18 August 2021
β Biba Dow
Biba Dow, Piazza Grande, Gubbio, 2012. Watercolour on paper, 138 × 276 mm. Courtesy of the architect. This painting was made in the early evening in the main square of…
Infinite Patterns in I. M. Peiβs Furniture Diagrams
12 January 2022
Infinite Patterns in I. M. Peiβs Furniture Diagrams12 January 2022
…truck to Columbus. I.M. Pei & Partners, plaza level plan diagram, c.1966. Courtesy of Columbus Indiana Architectural Archives. I.M. Pei & Partners, lower level plan diagram, c.1966. Courtesy of Columbus…
Edifice
19 August 2022
Edifice19 August 2022
β Philippa Lewis
…ornament, late sixteenth century, Florence. Sgraffito decoration by George Frampton on house for J.D.Sedding, Birchington-on-Sea, Kent, 1882. Incised plasterwork, second half nineteenth century, Barcelona. Campello Querini, Venice. Thirteenth or fourteenth…
Essex Coastal Cornice: Ex-Mould
11 January 2022
Essex Coastal Cornice: Ex-Mould11 January 2022
β Charles Holland
Ordinary Architecture (Charles Holland and Elly Ward), Essex Coast Cornice, 2016. CAD drawing. © Ordinary Architecture. The cover of early editions of John Summerson’s book The Classical Language of Architecture…
Florian Beigel Architects: Stage House
12 October 2017
Florian Beigel Architects: Stage House12 October 2017
β Florian Beigel and Philip Christou
…within the ‘Stage House’, a small shed that will be built next to the existing slender and very elegant pre-cast concrete framed roof canopy, the ‘Portico’ at the south end…
Louis Kahn: Notes on a Scrap of Paper
30 April 2020
Louis Kahn: Notes on a Scrap of Paper30 April 2020
β Brian Carter
Louis Kahn (1901–1974), design for a new building for the Tribune Review Publishing Company, 1958. Ink on paper. Courtesy of the Design Archive of Special Collections, University of Buffalo. This…
Alternative Histories: Charles Holland Architects on John Lautner
8 July 2019
Alternative Histories: Charles Holland Architects on John Lautner8 July 2019
Charles Holland Architects, John Lautner’s ground floor plan of a garden and semi-circular house for the artist Edgar Ewing, 2018. Rocks, origami paper, plastic, 400 × 200 × 200 mm….
Alternative Histories: Studio Thys Vermeulen on Sergison Bates
9 March 2019
Alternative Histories: Studio Thys Vermeulen on Sergison Bates9 March 2019
Studio Thys Vermeulen, Jonathan Sergison’s elevation of the Tower House, 2018. Stained plywood, 225 × 225 × 250 mm. Jonathan Sergison (1964), The Tower House, Nutley, 2011–2017. Pencil on trace,…
The Meaning of Lines
11 January 2021
The Meaning of Lines11 January 2021
β Laura Bonell and Daniel LΓ³pez-DΓ²riga
Charles Barry (1795-1860), Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812-1852), Houses of Parliament, North wing, 1840. Black ink and brown wash on tracing paper mounted on (modern) backing sheet, 570 × 750…
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