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Alternative Histories: Caruso St John & Siw Thomas on Hans Poelzig
13.02.2019
Alternative Histories: Caruso St John & Siw Thomas on Hans Poelzig13.02.2019
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
09.02.2019
Alternative Histories: dePaor on Hans Poelzig09.02.2019
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
06.02.2019
Alternative Histories: Hayatsu Architects on Charles-Dominique-Joseph Eisen06.02.2019
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
06.02.2019
Alternative Histories: Gustav Appell Arkitektkontor on Erik Gunnar Asplund06.02.2019
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
04.02.2019
Alternative Histories: Witherford Watson Mann on Cedric Price04.02.2019
—–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
04.02.2019
Alternative Histories: baukuh on John Hejduk04.02.2019
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
Alternative Histories: Bosshard, Tavor, van der Ploeg and Vihervaara on Bohdan Lachert
03.02.2019
Alternative Histories: Bosshard, Tavor, van der Ploeg and Vihervaara on Bohdan Lachert03.02.2019
Bohdan Lachert’s 1937 sketch is a simple and elegant signage study for a post office in Stanislawów. Compared with Lachert’s more dynamic, constructivist compositions, this façade has a restrained, typographic character – the combination of the signage and ribbon windows is reminiscent of a bullet-point list. For this model, we extended… Read More
Alternative Histories: Bovenbouw Architectuur on James Gowan
01.02.2019
Alternative Histories: Bovenbouw Architectuur on James Gowan01.02.2019
We had great fun elaborating on the cumulative aspect of James Gowan’s sketch. Gowan drew a procession of different structural features – a conga line of architectural fragments. We reinterpreted the idea on a vertical rather than horizontal axis. The conga line was turned into a tower-like stack. We embraced… Read More
Alternative Histories: De Vylder Vinck Taillieu on Michael Graves
31.01.2019
Alternative Histories: De Vylder Vinck Taillieu on Michael Graves31.01.2019
Jan de Vylder records that as a child Michael Graves was given a set of painted building blocks by his uncle. The set was made of wooden offcuts found around the yard where the young architect grew up; they remained with him throughout his career. From: Jan De Vylder Sent:… Read More
Alternative Histories: Hugh Strange Architects on Carlo Scarpa
31.01.2019
Alternative Histories: Hugh Strange Architects on Carlo Scarpa31.01.2019
Approximately A1-landscape in size, Carlo Scarpa’s drawing shows a series of studies of an unbuilt theatre project from 1970. A coloured, elevational sketch suggesting a masonry wall cut with slot-like or nearly-rounded apertures, inset with a lighter, framed structure, dominates the drawing. Our eyes are drawn to the details: a… Read More
Drawing, Movement and Medium: Mark Dorrian in Conversation with Michael Webb, Episode 3
21.01.2019
Drawing, Movement and Medium: Mark Dorrian in Conversation with Michael Webb, Episode 321.01.2019
– Mark Dorrian and Michael Webb
The third episode of Michael Webb’s conversation with Mark Dorrian resumes with the fate of the Sin Centre model. The piece is published to mark the entry of the first part of a new model of the Sin Centre into the Drawing Matter collection. The conversation took place on Wednesday,… Read More
Drawing, Movement and Medium: Michael Webb in Conversation with Mark Dorrian, Episode 2
21.01.2019
Drawing, Movement and Medium: Michael Webb in Conversation with Mark Dorrian, Episode 221.01.2019
– Mark Dorrian and Michael Webb
Mark Dorrian: I’ve loaded some images – Michael, by the way, doesn’t know what’s coming up. After showing this, the drawing of the building, I thought it would be useful to show a couple of slides about the context in which this project then appeared. The Furniture Manufacturers Building is… Read More
Alternative Histories: Max Otto Zitzelsberger on Louis Tullius Joachim Visconti
17.01.2019
Alternative Histories: Max Otto Zitzelsberger on Louis Tullius Joachim Visconti17.01.2019
Building upon Building Building upon buildings, drawing upon drawings, thinking upon thoughts. If this architectural drawing of Visconti has ever been realised, I do not know. In the end I am only interested in his architectural vision. Construction boards bear ideas and visions, before these become reality. They tell stories… Read More
Alternative Histories: Robbrecht en Daem Architecten on Le Corbusier
12.01.2019
Alternative Histories: Robbrecht en Daem Architecten on Le Corbusier12.01.2019
A Rain of Light It is our true belief that light is particles of dust. When light is driven through impurities it intensifies, and we assign it a mineral quality. We feel empowered by the ‘photon theory of light’ by Albert Einstein. – Robbrecht en Daem Architecten, January 2019
Alternative Histories: Jonathan Sergison on Carlos Diniz
12.01.2019
Alternative Histories: Jonathan Sergison on Carlos Diniz12.01.2019
Carlos Diniz’s drawing for Hillrise Apartments represents of another architect’s work. Who this may have been remains unclear. Interpreting the work of others is a common aspect of developing architectural ideas; our many collaborators add to projects through their drawings and models, constantly adjusting arrangements and proportions. On other occasions,… Read More
Alternative Histories: GAFPA on Superstudio
12.01.2019
Alternative Histories: GAFPA on Superstudio12.01.2019
We received a sketch made by Superstudio, the Italian architecture firm renowned for its conceptual architecture works.In the famous 1966 exhibition ‘Super Architecture’ the squared grid is used in a variety of scales from the simplest objects of furniture, such as a table, to an urban landscape.Through a series of… Read More
Alternative Histories: Olivier Goethal On Paul Rudolph
06.01.2019
Alternative Histories: Olivier Goethal On Paul Rudolph06.01.2019
YOU CLOSE, YOU OPENYOU OPEN, YOU CLOSE model 1/20 & object 1/1.1952–2018. a reinterpretation of paul rudolph’s flaphouse. like a tiny temple, lifted from its surrounding. 400-800THz …a narrow window makes our observed reality.in gradient with colours of visible light. while reflecting the given context onto its surface,its structure expresses… Read More
Dance Dance Revolution
30.12.2018
Dance Dance Revolution30.12.2018
In 1788, the art theorist and critic Quatremère de Quincy devoted a long entry of the Encyclopédie méthodique to the arabesque, ‘forms of ornament that are often the most capricious, fantastical, and imaginary, whether in sculpture or painting, that architecture employs in the decoration of walls, panels, door-frames, pilasters, friezes, and sometimes even… Read More
Superstudio: In Yesterday’s Tomorrow
23.12.2018
Superstudio: In Yesterday’s Tomorrow23.12.2018
‘Metamorphoses become frequent when a culture does not have sufficient courage to commit suicide (to eliminate itself) and has no clear alternatives to offer either‘ – Adolfo Natalini Following social and economic upheaval, there is often a retreat to the home. Traditionally, the ‘home’ is identified with a site of… Read More
Alternative Histories: Tony Fretton Architects on Erik Gunnar Asplund
19.12.2018
Alternative Histories: Tony Fretton Architects on Erik Gunnar Asplund19.12.2018
We recognise modernism as a continuing program to find architecture for the present time, and Asplund’s work as part of its history. Our project is a thought experiment on the central aspects of architecture’s modernism – social responsibility in combination with freedom to work with current sensibilities. It has proceeded… Read More
OMA’S Nederlands Dans Theater
15.12.2018
OMA’S Nederlands Dans Theater15.12.2018
Since you have asked about the two small sketches from Luce van Rooy Gallery attributed to Zaha: they are my drawings from the very early stages of the Nederlands Dans Theater project. The original site was not in The Hague but in Scheveningen, just down the road near the beach.… Read More
Behind the Lines 9
02.02.2019
Behind the Lines 902.02.2019
– Philippa Lewis
Cyril Ponsonby walked anxiously from where he was staying in Wilbury Road, Hove over to the Hotel Metropole on the Brighton sea front. It was 1907, a sunny day in early August. He was hot and bothered. Under his arm he held a sheaf of papers. He went through the… Read More
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