Period: c20th
Álvaro Siza – An ‘Amoral’ Architect
27 March 2023
Álvaro Siza – An ‘Amoral’ Architect27 March 2023
The fact that Álvaro Siza did not write about his work or about architecture is a conscious gesture, which goes beyond the mere neutrality of city walls. What is important in Siza is not the end result or the work, hence his lack of comment. His manner, his alibis, his… Read More
Richard Neutra’s Corona Avenue School
22 March 2023
Richard Neutra’s Corona Avenue School22 March 2023
This project scrapbook traces the publication and exhibition history of Richard Neutra’s experimental Corona Avenue School, built in 1935 after the Los Angeles earthquake of 1933. The material for this scrapbook has been compiled by Nicholas Olsberg; his earlier text on the school for Drawing Matter can be read here.
Nancy Goldring: Drawings and Foto-Projections
17 March 2023
Nancy Goldring: Drawings and Foto-Projections17 March 2023
– Leann Davis Alspaugh and Nancy Goldring
The following interview is reproduced from the publication Distillations: Nancy Goldring, Drawings and Foto-Projections, 1971–2021, published by ORO Editions. The interview was conducted by Leann Davis Alspaugh for The Hedgehog Review. The Hedgehog Review: In the 2014 summer issue of The Hedgehog Review, we ran two of your works ‘The… Read More
Construct
13 March 2023
Construct13 March 2023
In 1975, OMA (the Office for Metropolitan Architecture) produced two projects for Roosevelt Island (formerly Welfare Island), in New York’s East River, between Manhattan and Queens. The thin sliver of land—historically treated as ‘a storehouse for “undesirables”’ [1]—was undergoing a process of redevelopment under the New York State Urban Development… Read More
Protected: Collection News: Binazzi and UFO, Burton, Gounod, Siza, Visconti and more
13 March 2023
Protected: Collection News: Binazzi and UFO, Burton, Gounod, Siza, Visconti and more13 March 2023
– Editors
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
Ghost Parking Lot
10 March 2023
Ghost Parking Lot10 March 2023
SITE, an architecture and environmental art group, was founded in 1970 for the purpose of exploring new ways to bring a heightened level of communication and psychological content to buildings, interiors, and public spaces. Originally organised to research, assemble, and publish international documentation on other artists and architects of similar… Read More
DMJ – Asphalt Tales and the Ends of History
3 March 2023
DMJ – Asphalt Tales and the Ends of History3 March 2023
This paper explores how asphalt became a medium for architects and artists from the late 1950s to the 1970s to raise and articulate questions about memory, oblivion, communication and the environment. It questions to what extent T.J. Demos’ recent assertion that experimental visual culture is embedded ‘within social engagements and… Read More
DMJ – Shallow Cuts: the geological sectioning of Newcastle, NSW
3 March 2023
DMJ – Shallow Cuts: the geological sectioning of Newcastle, NSW3 March 2023
This paper charts the emergence of the drawn section as a mode of documenting geological time and physical space. This is specifically mapped in the Antipodean context of colonisation, where vital resources underneath the ground were mediated with strategic ambitions above. The relatively small period in the history of the… Read More
Geography of Hope: Hans Hollein and John Hejduk
1 March 2023
Geography of Hope: Hans Hollein and John Hejduk1 March 2023
This is the final of four extracts taken from an article first published in issue 40 on nonsite.org, dedicated to ‘New Views on Modern Architecture at Mid-Century’. Extrusion: Hollein in the Southwest The Austrian architect Hans Hollein, for many years a leading figure in the international avant-garde, was a student at… Read More
MJ Long’s Doll House
31 March 2023
MJ Long’s Doll House31 March 2023
– Elena Palacios Carral
In 2018, I met the architect MJ Long at her home. Located in a building designed and constructed in the 1930s by Thomas Tait, it doubled as Long’s studio. It was formerly the home and studio of the sculptor Sir William Dick Reid; MJ Long and her husband Sandy (Colin… Read More
sketch projection (axonometric isometric) competition furniture & object design domestic interior