Period: c21st
Drawing Walmer Yard
04.10.2016
Drawing Walmer Yard04.10.2016
The following text is excerpted from the exhibition essay in Drawing Walmer Yard. Piano Nobile, Publications No. XLII 2016. ©Piano Nobile and Peter Salter. Walmer Yard consists of four houses designed by Peter Salter and developed by Crispin Kelly, London W11. … The plan becomes the major generator of form. Geometry, reciprocal… Read More
Malagueira and Évora, Portugal
19.09.2016
Malagueira and Évora, Portugal19.09.2016
– Cathy Hawley and Hugh Strange
School of Architecture and Landscape, Kingston University This year we have been examining the relationship between the ancient Roman, medieval and baroque city of Évora and the adjacent Malagueira public housing development – some 1100 low-rise units designed by Álvaro Siza from 1977 onwards in the aftermath of the revolution… Read More
High Ground
19.09.2016
High Ground19.09.2016
– Colette Sheddick and Pierre d'Avoine
School of Architecture and Landscape, Kingston University We have researched the Derwent Valley World Heritage Site (DVWHS) over the last three years. This year we investigated the impact of infrastructure on community and landscape. Transport networks and sites of extraction have scarred the English landscape over millennia. The pragmatics of… Read More
Beyond Object-ness, a Good House
19.09.2016
Beyond Object-ness, a Good House19.09.2016
– Florian Beigel and Philip Christou
The Sir John Cass Faculty of Art, Architecture and Design, London Metropolitan University In the design research we do in practice and in our discussions with students, we are continuously working with ideas of space. We are not interested in form following function. Firstly it should be a good room,… Read More
Casswell Bank Architects: The Shed Project
18.09.2016
Casswell Bank Architects: The Shed Project18.09.2016
– Alex Bank and Sam Casswell
The Garden Rooms academy drawing by Casswell Bank Architect’s is a depiction of the relationship between the new shed, the Maltings buildings and its gardens located at the western edge of Bruton. The drawing extends beyond the adjacent road connecting the town with the countryside and the river Brue that… Read More
The Stones of John Ruskin
01.08.2016
The Stones of John Ruskin01.08.2016
– Karen Eve Johnson, Nicholas Olsberg and John Ruskin
Ruminations on the collection of siliceous minerals What follows is a selection from the collection of minerals given to and arranged for St. David’s School, Reigate, by John Ruskin, who prepared a full printed Catalogue of the Collection of Siliceous Minerals, dated 1883. The collection is still largely intact. Stones… Read More
The Marriage of Reason and Squalor
01.08.2016
The Marriage of Reason and Squalor01.08.2016
The Marriage of Reason and Squalor is a set of drawings I’ve produced since 2001. They are an investigation into what, in the absence of a better definition, I’ve called ‘non-compositional architecture’. Since the very beginning, I’ve conceived of these drawings as something to be executed by the simplest of means,… Read More
The Birth of the Column
07.04.2016
The Birth of the Column07.04.2016
The following text is excepted from an interview with Kate Goodwin, in: Sensing Spaces, Architecture Reimagined, Royal Academy of Arts, 2014. All drawings are by Álvaro Siza, 2013–2014, for the design, placement and installation of three columns in precast yellow concrete, first in the courtyard of Burlington House and then in… Read More
This Was Tomorrow: Reinventing Architecture 1953–1978
13.03.2016
This Was Tomorrow: Reinventing Architecture 1953–197813.03.2016
– Markus Lähteenmäki, Manuel Montenegro and Nicholas Olsberg
This Was Tomorrow: Reinventing Architecture 1953–1978 is an exhibition about architectural imagination and the power, processes and poetics of creation and invention. It presents a series of twelve episodes – beginning in the 1950s – that look at the ferment of new ideas as architects began to reconceive space in response… Read More
Beevor Mull Architects: Pikpa Refugee Camp
13.10.2016
Beevor Mull Architects: Pikpa Refugee Camp13.10.2016
– Robert Mull
This is one of a series of interactive drawings made with refugees and volunteers at Pikpa Camp on Lesvos, Greece. The camp there supports vulnerable and bereaved refugees who have arrived by dinghy from Turkey; it provides medical support, counselling, clothes, food and legal advice. Our project envisions new external… Read More
concept & diagram social engagement DMC presentation