Tag: DMC
Boompjes I
22.02.2019
Boompjes I22.02.2019
In the 1980s, the city of Rotterdam asked OMA to study its high-rise building and to illustrate their findings in a planning proposal. The site, selected in consultation with the Rotterdam Planning Department, was situated on Maasboulevard, near the Maasbridge – an angle between the river and the lower city grid, a ‘hinge’… Read More
Roosevelt Island
17.02.2019
Roosevelt Island17.02.2019
The Roosevelt Island competition was sponsored by New York State Urban Development Corporation for the urbanisation of an island in the East River of Manhattan. The city grid served as a formal generator for the building types, adapted with controlling geometry to the proportions of the island’s topography. There are… Read More
Alternative Histories: Conen Sigl Architekten on Giuseppe Chiantarelli
16.02.2019
Alternative Histories: Conen Sigl Architekten on Giuseppe Chiantarelli16.02.2019
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
Alternative Histories: Christ & Gantenbein on Louis Kahn
16.02.2019
Alternative Histories: Christ & Gantenbein on Louis Kahn16.02.2019
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
Zaha Hadid: Azabu-Juban
16.02.2019
Zaha Hadid: Azabu-Juban16.02.2019
Zaha Hadid’s sketches during mid-1980s for projects often unknown and unbuilt mark a transitional period in her drawing and thinking, from the early work inspired by the programme briefs and axonometric drawing style of OMA. Often she sketches in plan, her line moving right to left, discernable through an initial… Read More
Alternative Histories: Mikael Bergquist on Peter Märkli
14.02.2019
Alternative Histories: Mikael Bergquist on Peter Märkli14.02.2019
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
14.02.2019
Alternative Histories: De Smet Vermeulen architecten on Bruce Goff14.02.2019
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
14.02.2019
Alternative Histories: Marie-José Van Hee on Hans Hollein14.02.2019
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
14.02.2019
Alternative Histories: Hans van der Heijden on Josef Hoffmann14.02.2019
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
14.02.2019
Alternative Histories: Clancy Moore Architects on Joseph Paxton14.02.2019
‘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
13.02.2019
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
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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