Tag: housing

Cedric Price: Bathat
08.08.2016

Cedric Price: Bathat08.08.2016

– Helen Mallinson

Swiftly drawn in soft orange-red crayon, four upright fingers sit astride a flying platform. We instantly recognise the volume and mass of Battersea Power Station; but the weight has vanished with the walls. The uplift is palpable: thin red pen lines inscribe the geometry of the stripped back steels, but… Read More

DMC housing industry & infrastructure projection (axonometric isometric) sketch urban form

Hans Hollein: Infinite Space
04.03.2016

Hans Hollein: Infinite Space04.03.2016

Between 1959 and 1964, the sculptor and designer Walter Pichler (1936–2012) and the architect Hans Hollein (1934–2014), working in dialogue, introduced a radically adventurous new plasticity to form, questioning the functional idea of architecture as shelter and its symbolic role as monument, as well as calling for the architect to… Read More

DMC housing interior landscape sketch survey urban form