Tag: landscape
Fernando Higueras: The Volcano, The Flower, and The Dromedary
9 May 2022
Fernando Higueras: The Volcano, The Flower, and The Dromedary9 May 2022
From eighteenth century primitive huts to the rise of barn living in the 1970s, buildings have served as the conceptual boundary between primordial formlessness and the organised world. But what if architecture begins with the very nature that it was invented to exclude? In 1971, the Madrilenian architect Fernando Higueras… Read More
Drawing Out, Drawing In: Cartographies for ‘Out of the Sea’
24 March 2022
Drawing Out, Drawing In: Cartographies for ‘Out of the Sea’24 March 2022
By Beth George
The provocation for this essay is Drawing Matter’s own: ‘we take the word “drawing” to be as much a verb as a noun…’ Drawing describes an act and a thing: both a process and the outcome of that process. There aren’t many English words like it, and many of them… Read More
Charles Jencks: Architect in the Jumping Universe
25 January 2022
Charles Jencks: Architect in the Jumping Universe25 January 2022
By Lily Jencks
Gardens have always been the location to contemplate and speculate on man’s place in nature. Gardens bring the macrocosm into the microcosm by the necessity of being a living place, connecting to the wider rhythms, ecological networks, or the even more abstract forces that create our world. When Charles and… Read More
The Rural Homes of Marcelo Ferraz and Francisco Fanucci
13 December 2021
The Rural Homes of Marcelo Ferraz and Francisco Fanucci13 December 2021
Where our sertão remainsEvery happy little houseStill neighbors a streamAnd still harbors its arbors Where our sertão remainsEvery happy little homeCooks on the coal cookerThe wood stove’s still blown[…] Where sertão remainsEvery little house is gladfor on the evenings we get our Hail-MaryAnd the pleasure of being alone ‘Casinha feliz’,… Read More
The Temple of Flora, Stourhead: a paradise revisited
9 December 2021
The Temple of Flora, Stourhead: a paradise revisited9 December 2021
By Dudley Dodd
In 1744 Henry Hoare employed Henry Flitcroft to design a temple for his magnificent Palladian gardens at Stourhead: The Temple of Flora, which was built by William Privett in 1744–5. Excerpted below is an account of the temple’s history taken from Dudley Dodd’s book, Stourhead: Henry Hoare’s Paradise Revisited (2021). Purchase… Read More
Alberto Ponis on Casa Scalesciani
27 October 2021
Alberto Ponis on Casa Scalesciani27 October 2021
The site chosen by Juan S., an Argentinian with a penchant for Italy, was almost alarmingly steep and sheer above the sea. Even the path leading to it was perilous, and trodden with bated breath. During our long conversations about where the house would be built, we were not so… Read More
Twelve Thousand Seven Hundred Forty-Two KM of Continuum
4 October 2021
Twelve Thousand Seven Hundred Forty-Two KM of Continuum4 October 2021
There is a handwritten phrase in red ink at the bottom of this sketch, which reads in Italian: ‘for the continuous monument (genesis)’. This drawing is from one of Adolfo Natalini’s sketchbooks and depicts a series of studies about the earth. In the same sketchbook, he drew multiple sequences of… Read More
Pan Scroll Zoom 16: Luis Callejas
28 July 2021
Pan Scroll Zoom 16: Luis Callejas28 July 2021
This is the sixteenth in a series of texts edited by Fabrizio Gallanti on the challenges in the new world of online architectural teaching and, particularly, on the changing role of drawings in presentations and reviews. Here, Luis Callejas (LCLA OFFICE) discusses his teaching studios at the Yale School of Architecture and the… Read More
Superstudio & Piranesi: Zeno is Immortal
24 May 2021
Superstudio & Piranesi: Zeno is Immortal24 May 2021
It’s 1777 in the Italian region of Salerno, a man is resting on a massive Doric column, watching his two cows from the ruin of a temple where the weeds grow. This building was, a long time ago, considered as the house of Juno, goddess of fertility and the vital… Read More
Nobuo Sekine: Phase of Nothingness
27 April 2021
Nobuo Sekine: Phase of Nothingness27 April 2021
By Editors
With thanks to Nicholas Olsberg for sending us this tribute to Sekine written on the first anniversary of the artist’s death (linked here).
Balzac architecte (1856)
9 April 2021
Balzac architecte (1856)9 April 2021
By Leon Gozlan
No drawing, nor stone in the ground, remains of the dream house near Paris which the young novelist was never able to complete. By the time Balzac resold the whole property in 1840, with debts of 100,000 francs, it had collapsed back into the landscape, together with the terraced plantations… Read More
The Ruined Temple and Oberrealta Chapel
14 April 2022
The Ruined Temple and Oberrealta Chapel14 April 2022
By Zachary Torres
The plans of the Ruined Temple and Oberrealta Chapel were drawn nearly two hundred years apart, and yet they both speak to the Ruskian timelessness of the ruin. The temple and chapel are representative of their respective ages, with the former alluding to Romanticism’s longing for a pastoral past free… Read More
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