Tag: alternative histories (project)
Alternative Histories: Christ & Gantenbein on Louis Kahn
16 February 2019
Alternative Histories: Christ & Gantenbein on Louis Kahn16 February 2019
Louis Kahn’s drawing is a floor plan, a typical plan. It is characterised by the stark expression of the poché. The coal-coloured stains lend the drawing the quality of a painting. Their roughness contrasts with the minuscule dots suggesting the mullions of the facade. It’s a sketch on paper, not on… Read More
Alternative Histories: Mikael Bergquist on Peter Märkli
14 February 2019
Alternative Histories: Mikael Bergquist on Peter Märkli14 February 2019
Peter Märkli’s drawing of the House in Sargans has an intriguing combination of a rigorous proportional grid and a sketch-like drawing showing the garden elevation of the house. The actual house was designed in 1983 for the architect’s sister. It was built in situ, in cast concrete. The concrete has… Read More
Alternative Histories: De Smet Vermeulen architecten on Bruce Goff
14 February 2019
Alternative Histories: De Smet Vermeulen architecten on Bruce Goff14 February 2019
GOFFTOWN Walls cannot just be surfaces. They are mass. Wouldn’t you agree? Sure! But… this much? Can you afford the space? And why layering them twice? First the bricks, and then the ten-brick blocks It is important that all wall heights are related. The steps must be easy to count.… Read More
Alternative Histories: Marie-José Van Hee on Hans Hollein
14 February 2019
Alternative Histories: Marie-José Van Hee on Hans Hollein14 February 2019
The construction and layering in Hans Hollein’s drawing reminds me of the Aqueduc Romain de Barbegal in France, which I visited some summers ago. This structure can be found in Hollein’s drawing of the city; for me, it represents a landscape, rather than an urban context. The drawing comprises three layers.… Read More
Alternative Histories: Hans van der Heijden on Josef Hoffmann
14 February 2019
Alternative Histories: Hans van der Heijden on Josef Hoffmann14 February 2019
When I received a tiny sketch of a cottage by the Viennese architect Josef Hoffmann (1870-1956), I found the drawing at the same time intriguing and awkward. Hoffmann’s drawing suggests an expressive roof to the cottage, an attractive theme to me. It is ‘a little house with a big scale’.… Read More
Alternative Histories: Clancy Moore Architects on Joseph Paxton
14 February 2019
Alternative Histories: Clancy Moore Architects on Joseph Paxton14 February 2019
‘Every element of its construction speaks for itself alone.’ So wrote Gottfried Semper of the Caribbean hut he had seen in the Crystal Palace, and which he used to describe the four elements of architecture. Paxton’s patent drawings and text describe a fragment of the roof that sheltered Semper, the… Read More
Alternative Histories: Caruso St John & Siw Thomas on Hans Poelzig
13 February 2019
Alternative Histories: Caruso St John & Siw Thomas on Hans Poelzig13 February 2019
The charcoal lines of Poelzig’s sketches imply a volume and material surface that is close to the quality of his buildings. Our model attempts to engage with this fusion of formal energy and material alchemy. – Caruso St John
Alternative Histories: dePaor on Hans Poelzig
9 February 2019
Alternative Histories: dePaor on Hans Poelzig9 February 2019
The drawing is thinking, the same mark used over and over, up and down, hurdling scales quickly, the pulled edge of the sheet mimics the line. There is one idea — on the right, closer up — a study after or rehearsal for the three-quarter view bleached out from the… Read More
Alternative Histories: Hayatsu Architects on Charles-Dominique-Joseph Eisen
6 February 2019
Alternative Histories: Hayatsu Architects on Charles-Dominique-Joseph Eisen6 February 2019
Architecture evolves through material transformations, copying one from another, much like how Greek temples adopted using stone instead of wood. Casting is an act of copying. Bronze is an ancient material used by humankind dating back to the mid-4th millennium BC. It is a ductile alloy which does not corrode… Read More
Alternative Histories: Gustav Appell Arkitektkontor on Erik Gunnar Asplund
6 February 2019
Alternative Histories: Gustav Appell Arkitektkontor on Erik Gunnar Asplund6 February 2019
The model examines and highlights the way in which Asplund worked with interior space. Often the interior and exterior of his buildings show striking dissimilarities. His ability to hide unexpected spaces within unassuming volumes has always inspired us. This beautiful plan drawing of Villa Snellman speaks of this, we think,… Read More
Alternative Histories: Witherford Watson Mann on Cedric Price
4 February 2019
Alternative Histories: Witherford Watson Mann on Cedric Price4 February 2019
—–Original Message—–From: William MannSent: 17 January 2019 19:22To: cedric@cpa.org Cc: Stephen Witherford; William Mann; Philippa BattyeSubject: Bathat Dear Cedric, We tried to reach you by phone but gather you are still in East Grinstead. So we are sending some drawings instead, hope you are able to open the files ok. There are… Read More
Alternative Histories: baukuh on John Hejduk
4 February 2019
Alternative Histories: baukuh on John Hejduk4 February 2019
John Hejduk’s take on Corbusian purism liberates the very same forms from the kind of gravitas there at their inception, in the 1920s. Once pregnant forms – conceived and refined during extensive morning painting sessions – they become in Hejduk’s production, as light as the effort to draw them using a felt… Read More