Tag: alternative histories (project)
Alternative Histories: Studio Thys Vermeulen on Sergison Bates
9 March 2019
Alternative Histories: Studio Thys Vermeulen on Sergison Bates9 March 2019
Folly The drawing we received was a pencil drawing showing a vertical elevation of Sergison Bates’s Tower House in Nutley. This proposal for a vertical country house, as explained by the architects, refers to the memory of an old water tower that stood on the same spot. Unlike the lightness… Read More
Alternative Histories: Rloaluarnad on Mario Sironi
7 March 2019
Alternative Histories: Rloaluarnad on Mario Sironi7 March 2019
The model is a theatre within a city block. A small volkshuis, a fun palace – a public interior with the shed as its inspirator. Meeting wall to wall with its neighbours, the theatre is a black box within the city block; to the rear is a light, interchangeable structure, clad… Read More
Alternative Histories: Descloux Engelschall on Louis-François Trouard
28 February 2019
Alternative Histories: Descloux Engelschall on Louis-François Trouard28 February 2019
the duplicity becomes entity.the backside becomes frontside.the theatrical becomes ordinary.the disguise becomes a dress.the barracks become dwellings.the chimera becomes concrete.the rock becomes textile.the drapes become stone.the boulder becomes the domino.the domino becomes history.the tent remains. – Descloux Engelschall, 2018
Alternative Histories: Schneider Türtscher on Álvaro Siza
28 February 2019
Alternative Histories: Schneider Türtscher on Álvaro Siza28 February 2019
Accumulation – arranged, adjusted, rearranged and painted / grey cardboard, corrugated cardboard, spruce sticks, pencil, glue, acrylic paint white, acrylic paint red, clear lacquer / 20 x 22.8 x 14.3 cm. – Claudio Schneider, Michaela Türtscher
Alternative Histories: East Architecture on Otto Wagner
28 February 2019
Alternative Histories: East Architecture on Otto Wagner28 February 2019
Otto Wagner’s self-initiated design for the Capuchin Church and Imperial Crypt in Vienna reveals a powerful civic pride and belief in the role of architecture to improve lives. His monument was more than a symbol of mass and space; its claddings and dressings were dramatically intended for social effect. The… Read More
Alternative Histories: Taka Architects on Peter Märkli
28 February 2019
Alternative Histories: Taka Architects on Peter Märkli28 February 2019
Peter Märkli’s sketch of the plan for Haus Kuehnis seems to describe a compact building with a different front and back and interior rooms made specific through spatial divisions, decoration and architectural order. We know Markli’s house – with its stout singular form and enigmatic approach to order and decoration… Read More
Alternative Histories: Ryan W Kennihan Architects on John Nash
24 February 2019
Alternative Histories: Ryan W Kennihan Architects on John Nash24 February 2019
1. The architecture of John Nash (1752-1835) may be said to oscillate between two distinct approaches depending on location. On the one hand, he creates an architecture in the city that is ordered, symmetrical, proportioned and rational (see Park Crescent, Hanover Terrace or the garden front of Buckingham Palace), on… Read More
Alternative Histories: Stephen Bates on Henry Thomas Cadbury-Brown
22 February 2019
Alternative Histories: Stephen Bates on Henry Thomas Cadbury-Brown22 February 2019
Reading Jim Cadbury-Brown’s transcript of ‘Ideas of Disorder’ delivered at the Architectural Association in 1959, it is clear just how far he had moved from his functionalist modern movement origins towards a more expressive and instinctive idea of what architecture could be and mean. The drawing of a first scheme… Read More
Alternative Histories: 31/44 Architects on William Butterfield
22 February 2019
Alternative Histories: 31/44 Architects on William Butterfield22 February 2019
Dear Sir William, Thank you for forwarding your drawing concerning the proposed alterations to Heath Court, Otter-St-Mary. It is indeed an exciting project. We heard rumour that (y)our client is actually the wealthiest family in Britain. We understand that came with a certain expectation of what their home would be… Read More
Alternative Histories: Carmody Groarke on Haus-Rücker-Co
22 February 2019
Alternative Histories: Carmody Groarke on Haus-Rücker-Co22 February 2019
Ashtray Our interest in Haus-Rücker-Co’s drawing lies less in the technological implications that created the artificial environment and focusses instead on the spatial tension created between Mies van der Rohe’s Haus Lange and the heart-shaped bubble that surrounds it. The drawing removes reference to the context, within and outside the… Read More
Alternative Histories: Conen Sigl Architekten on Giuseppe Chiantarelli
16 February 2019
Alternative Histories: Conen Sigl Architekten on Giuseppe Chiantarelli16 February 2019
Pompeiian Mausoleum for Extinct Animals (Associations about a mural painting of the Casa Pseudourbana in Pompeii) The painted structure on the plaster makes the wall appear as filigree and light – crumbled plaster shows the massive masonry behind, the actual construction of the wall. With a little bit of paint,… Read More