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Alternative Histories: Dyvik Kahlen Architects on Tony Fretton
29 July 2019
Alternative Histories: Dyvik Kahlen Architects on Tony Fretton29 July 2019
A Ruin The sketch is finished and unfinished at the same time, it’s precise and equally ambiguous. In a way architecture should be the same, somewhere between a ruin and a loved space. A ruin understood as a spatial sequence that follows it’s own internal logic, void of an immediate… Read More
Alternative Histories: OMMX on Adolfo Natalini
27 July 2019
Alternative Histories: OMMX on Adolfo Natalini27 July 2019
Alternative Histories: Happel Cornelisse Verhoeven Architecten on Ernest Born
15 July 2019
Alternative Histories: Happel Cornelisse Verhoeven Architecten on Ernest Born15 July 2019
Treasure Island is an artificial island in the San Francisco Bay and was built in 1937 for the ‘Golden Gate International Exposition’, a World’s Fair on the occasion of the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge. Architect Ernest Born designed various buildings for the fair including the ‘Main Portal’, a… Read More
Alternative Histories: Murmuur Architecten on Álvaro Siza
8 July 2019
Alternative Histories: Murmuur Architecten on Álvaro Siza8 July 2019
We appreciate Siza’s gesture to connect the balustrades to a kind of coat rack or washing wire in front of the windows on the first floor. The panache of the pencil stripe on the sketch is brought to life in the fine red line of the balustrade. He strings the… Read More
Alternative Histories: EM2N on Alexander Brodsky
8 July 2019
Alternative Histories: EM2N on Alexander Brodsky8 July 2019
We were fascinated by Alexander Brodsky tentative sketches. Laying line over line, searching for the right position and proportions, he produces drawings that look like an x-ray of a three-dimensional object with multiple layers of lines and surfaces producing a fuzzy depth of space. We interpreted our role similar to… Read More
Alternative Histories: 2A+P/A on Aldo Rossi
8 July 2019
Alternative Histories: 2A+P/A on Aldo Rossi8 July 2019
Starting from the analysis of a drawing by Rossi, made for the competition project on the student house in Trieste in 1974 – with the curious title “La vita Calda (The warm life)” – we begun to investigate a series of recurring elements in Rossi’s architecture, especially in his first… Read More
Alternative Histories: Charles Holland Architects on John Lautner
8 July 2019
Alternative Histories: Charles Holland Architects on John Lautner8 July 2019
Strawberry Gothic Forever draws on a number of architectural fantasies. Primarily, it can be seen as an anglicised version of Lautner’s house for Edgar Ewing, a circular structure intended for the Los Angeles hills but now embedded in the chalk face of the North Downs. But it also contains other… Read More
Alternative Histories: Stephen Taylor Architects on Robbrecht and Daem
1 July 2019
Alternative Histories: Stephen Taylor Architects on Robbrecht and Daem1 July 2019
Our proposal reimagines the Aue Pavilions project by Robbrecht en Daem through an extreme exaggeration and distortion of the original work’s spatial ideas. The ensemble of carriage-like volumes are reimagined as a continuous sinusoidal form which opens up to the park, raised on stumpy pilotis. Instead of a series of… Read More
On Cornices, Part I
17 June 2019
On Cornices, Part I17 June 2019
In 1806, the civil servant Karl Tilebein and his wife were looking for an architect to design their new country house in Züllchow, Pomerania. They contacted the young Prussian architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel, who, having recently returned from a two-year grand tour of Italy, was back in Berlin eking out… Read More
Alternative Histories: fala atelier on Louis Kahn
14 June 2019
Alternative Histories: fala atelier on Louis Kahn14 June 2019
Supreme efficiency. For the cost of one millimetre of pencil lead, a few careful shapes define the volume, its load-bearing structure, the metrics of the facades and the distinction between services and open areas. We thought five pillars would be enough, and that the rhythm of the elevations would benefit… Read More
Alternative Histories: Havana architectuur on Michael Webb
18 April 2019
Alternative Histories: Havana architectuur on Michael Webb18 April 2019
When asked to design a model based on one of Michael Webb’s illustrious drawings of the Sin Centre project for Leicester Square (London 1961) we immediately thought about our project for a 500 cars garage (in collaboration with L.U.S.T. architecten) at the edge of the town of Ghent, which is… Read More
Alternative Histories: BeL on Walter Pichler
15 April 2019
Alternative Histories: BeL on Walter Pichler15 April 2019
The selected drawing – a light-hearted but somewhat nervous sketch bearing the title Sketch for Underground City – belongs to an early body of work by Walter Pichler. Working on abstract, hypothetical cities and buildings, Pichler questions the relationship of oppositional systems: positive and negative space, the designed and found object, movement… Read More
Alternative Histories: Smith and Taylor Architects on Erik Gunnar Asplund
10 April 2019
Alternative Histories: Smith and Taylor Architects on Erik Gunnar Asplund10 April 2019
Erik Gunnar Asplund’s 1921 drawing of the gable elevation of Karl Johan School presents a composed, formal, broadly classical and definitely Scandinavian façade. The potential symmetry of the façade is undermined by its off-centre presentation on the sheet, and by its constructed context: the profile of the hipped-roofed building on the left,… Read More
Alternative Histories: General Architecture on Emil Hoppe
21 March 2019
Alternative Histories: General Architecture on Emil Hoppe21 March 2019
Task We look upon the drawing of Emil Hoppe as a first draft of a building. The draft has travelled through time and it Is now our task to continue the work from our position. Continuation must be understood as something in between mere acceptance and rejection. For this task… Read More
Alternative Histories: Traumnovelle on Michael Gold
21 March 2019
Alternative Histories: Traumnovelle on Michael Gold21 March 2019
The Atom People The sublime despair of not belonging to our own planet’s ecosystems After the apocalypse, the overheated planet Earth is uninhabitable. Humankind creates a new underground city thanks to a machine producing infinite energy. People of this utopian city vow to learn from the errors of the past… Read More
Alternative Histories: Philip Christou on Le Corbusier
21 March 2019
Alternative Histories: Philip Christou on Le Corbusier21 March 2019
When asked to participate in ‘Alternative Histories’, I was pleased to be offered the large, elegant drawing by Le Corbusier of his proposal for the Bhakra Dam near Chandigarh, India. I remember seeing this drawing with Florian Beigel years ago in the Drawing Matter archive, and again in an important… Read More
Alternative Histories: Flores i Prats Architects on Alberto Ponis
20 March 2019
Alternative Histories: Flores i Prats Architects on Alberto Ponis20 March 2019
We have reflected directly on Alberto Ponis’s drawing without separating ourselves from it, looking for clues about where we could enter with the scissors and fold out the paper with our hands, making the house and the landscape that we saw drawn appear at the same time. We took the… Read More
Behind the Lines 10
19 June 2019
Behind the Lines 1019 June 2019
– Philippa Lewis
It was undoubtedly the doing of that ancient buffer Lutyens, Samuel Hardy reflected sourly, as he stared at the pages of the September 1932 issue of The Builder and saw an illustration of the winning entry. It showed Mr Edward H Banks of ‘Villa Desiré’, Downlands Road, Purley, Surrey’s awful concoction of… Read More
plan competition presentation exhibition behind the lines (series) creative writing DMC