Period: c20th
James Stirling, and the Industrialization of Architecture?
26 April 2024
James Stirling, and the Industrialization of Architecture?26 April 2024
James Stirling’s presentation drawing from 1957 to a faculty of engineers might seem strangely familiar to contemporary architects. A section of a box, showing the structure, services, and how people might dwell inside—it almost anticipates the prefabricated modular construction architects are now being asked to design. Only a few years… Read More
Protected: John Hejduk’s Farm Library
25 April 2024
Protected: John Hejduk’s Farm Library25 April 2024
– Mehrshad Atashi and Lida Badafareh
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A Bath for Immortality
24 April 2024
A Bath for Immortality24 April 2024
It is 1971 and the city is Graz. ‘If we look at the city as a set of artefacts that can be modified over time, homogeneous and isotropic, correlated to the physical reality of the landscape and the territory, and at the same time if we refuse to take part… Read More
Protected: Banham in Buffalo
23 April 2024
Protected: Banham in Buffalo23 April 2024
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Hans Hollein at Drawing Matter
23 April 2024
Hans Hollein at Drawing Matter23 April 2024
– Editors and Nicholas Olsberg
The Austrian architect Hans Hollein (1934–2014) studied under Clemens Holzmeister at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, and then at the Illinois Institute of Technology and the College of Environmental Design at the University of California Berkeley. With the sculptor and designer Walter Pichler he introduced a body of… Read More
OMA: London—Foreplay
19 April 2024
OMA: London—Foreplay19 April 2024
This is the first post, in a series of six, titled OMA CONVERSATIONS. The series is the result of a collaboration between Drawing Matter and architect Richard Hall who, over the past two years, has conducted twenty-three in-depth conversations with key collaborators working with OMA during its formative years. Drawing… Read More
Mies van der Rohe: Clarity as the Aim
17 April 2024
Mies van der Rohe: Clarity as the Aim17 April 2024
Mies’s work is an exemplary embodiment of the idea of architectural abstraction. His buildings are free of all the ‘figurative’ ingredients that characterise traditional architecture. They are made up of materials or constructive elements given cohesion and structure by a series of visual devices. But, although his language is so… Read More
Design Drawings Damage Atlas (2023)
15 April 2024
Design Drawings Damage Atlas (2023)15 April 2024
Snap, crackle, pop. Oh, that horrible sound of unravelling a roll of architectural drawings on old dried-up tracing paper from the nineteenth century. Slowly unfurling the brown brittle sheet, it cracks and shatters, little bits drop off in flakes, littering the table and floor like confetti. The experience feels like… Read More
Protected: O.M. Ungers: Drawing a metaphor
12 April 2024
Protected: O.M. Ungers: Drawing a metaphor12 April 2024
– Diogo Lopes and Fanny Noël
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Protected: Peter Wilson in the Empire of Signs
12 April 2024
Protected: Peter Wilson in the Empire of Signs12 April 2024
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Protected: Hermann Czech: Ungefähre Hauptrichtung (Approximate main direction)
24 April 2024
Protected: Hermann Czech: Ungefähre Hauptrichtung (Approximate main direction)24 April 2024
– Mikael Bergquist
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