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The Values of Profiles (1951)
8 January 2021
The Values of Profiles (1951)8 January 2021
Provoked by the assertion of rational architecture, the beginnings of modern non-figurative art coincide in time with the exclusion from the world of living forms of cornices and profiles, the most evidently ‘abstract’ elements of ancient architecture. At least two reasons may be relevant to this singular phenomenon: one is… Read More
All back to front: D’Aviler’s Cours D’Architecture
9 November 2020
All back to front: D’Aviler’s Cours D’Architecture9 November 2020
In Louis de Boulogne’s drawing, now in the Drawing Matter collection, Architecture appears as a young woman. She sits leaning on an altar with a Corinthian capital at her feet, compasses in one hand and a portrait of Vignola in the other. Behind her are the ruins of Rome. It… Read More
Palladio’s Lines
15 October 2020
Palladio’s Lines15 October 2020
By Sezin Sarıca
Andrea Palladio’s Il Quattro Libri dell’architettura (Venice, 1570) is a seminal document in the history and theory of architecture. The treatise projects the knowledge of both architectural form and its image. The formation of this knowledge is documented within Palladio’s work textually and visually. The work conveys both the formation… Read More
Trees Make A Plan
7 October 2020
Trees Make A Plan7 October 2020
By Sylvia Lavin
In 1546, Antonio da Sangallo the Younger died of malaria while working in Umbria about 100 kilometres north of Rome. Unlike Claude Perrault, who in 1688 also contracted a fatal infection as part of his work – the source of his malady is said to have been a camel he… Read More
Writing Prize 2020: Figures of War
29 September 2020
Writing Prize 2020: Figures of War29 September 2020
Niccolò Machiavelli concludes his treatise on the art of war (Dell’Arte della Guerra, 1521) with a series of diagrammatic ‘figures’ illustrating the arrangements of troops known as ordinanze. Rather than using human silhouettes, the ordinanza links alphabetical signs to specific roles and positions of the soldiers, reducing the army to… Read More
The wobbly line: Asplund, Johansson and the influence of Tessenow in Sweden 1915–1925
27 July 2020
The wobbly line: Asplund, Johansson and the influence of Tessenow in Sweden 1915–192527 July 2020
By Jan Rydén
There is a drawing in a 1923 issue of the Swedish trade journal Byggmästaren (The Master-Builder). It is part of a presentation of a new three-storey house by the architect Cyrillus Johansson. To illustrate his text the architect has included photos and a drawing of the front elevation and a plan of… Read More
The Conservative (1941)
6 July 2020
The Conservative (1941)6 July 2020
All along the wide stony high street of Chipping Campden one is aware of stopped clocks. Time has been strenuously and persistently defied – almost successfully. Even the public telephone box – after a short struggle with the Post Office – has been allowed to wear the protective colouring of… Read More
Thomas Henry Wyatt’s Brook House
12 June 2020
Thomas Henry Wyatt’s Brook House12 June 2020
By Andrew Jones
There is no building that tells the social and aesthetic story of Park Lane better than Brook House. From its beginnings as a scrappy country lane (‘Tyburn Lane’) in the eighteenth century, Park Lane rose to become the millionaires’ row of the Victorian and Edwardian eras and went on in… Read More
Ink on his Hands: Montano’s Visceral Roman Architectures
18 May 2020
Ink on his Hands: Montano’s Visceral Roman Architectures18 May 2020
When he sat down to make the drawings that form this eight-page album of Roman buildings, Giovanni Battista Montano began by embossing lines onto the sheet with a stylus, straightedge and compass. Using natural black chalk, he then lightly sketched the principal parts and main particularities of the selected edifices.… Read More
Colin Rowe: Piazza Augusto Imperatore (1995)
5 March 2020
Colin Rowe: Piazza Augusto Imperatore (1995)5 March 2020
By Colin Rowe
– Colin Rowe, 1995. Excerpted from Colin Rowe, As I Was Saying: Recollections and Miscellaneous Essays, ed. Alexander Caragonne (London: MIT Press, 1996).
Summerson: The Little House
4 March 2020
Summerson: The Little House4 March 2020
– John Summerson, ‘Heavenly Mansions: An Interpretation of Gothic,’ in Heavenly Mansions, and other Essays on Architecture (New York: W. W. Norton, 1963), 1-3.
Trees Move In
22 October 2020
Trees Move In22 October 2020
By Sylvia Lavin
The following text is the second of a series of four essays on trees in architectural drawings by Sylvia Lavin. The essays were first published in Log 49 (Summer 2020). Drawing Matter would like to thank the author and the journal’s editors for allowing us to reproduce the essays on… Read More
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