Tag: theoretical & imaginary
Protected: ‘Then There Was War’: John Hejduk’s Silent Witnesses as Nuclear Criticism
6 September 2022
Protected: ‘Then There Was War’: John Hejduk’s Silent Witnesses as Nuclear Criticism6 September 2022
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The Ulysses Project: Architecture and the city through James Joyce’s Dublin: Part II
17 June 2022
The Ulysses Project: Architecture and the city through James Joyce’s Dublin: Part II17 June 2022
This is part two of two posts pairing Freddie Phillipsons’s drawings from The Ulysses Project with excerpts from James Joyce’s landmark novel. The drawings are on display at the Irish Architectural Archive, Dublin, until 19 August 2022. The exhibition is part of Ulysses100, an international programme of events celebrating 100 years… Read More
The Ulysses Project: Architecture and the city through James Joyce’s Dublin: Part I
16 June 2022
The Ulysses Project: Architecture and the city through James Joyce’s Dublin: Part I16 June 2022
This is part one of two posts pairing Freddie Phillipsons’s drawings from The Ulysses Project with excerpts from James Joyce’s landmark novel. The drawings are on display at the Irish Architectural Archive, Dublin, until 19 August 2022. The exhibition is part of Ulysses100, an international programme of events celebrating 100 years… Read More
The Ulysses Project: Architecture and the city through James Joyce’s Dublin: Introduction
8 June 2022
The Ulysses Project: Architecture and the city through James Joyce’s Dublin: Introduction8 June 2022
This text introduces The Ulysses Project by architect Freddie Phillipson, his exploration of the relationship between the buildings of Dublin and James Joyce’s landmark novel. The drawings are on display at the Irish Architectural Archive, Dublin, from 17 June – 19 August 2022. The exhibition is part of Ulysses100, an international… Read More
The Evolving Role of Drawing
29 April 2022
The Evolving Role of Drawing29 April 2022
This text was first published in The Architectural Review in 2013. Carlo Scarpa, in a famously infamous gesture, opened all his courses in design at the University of Venice by demonstrating the art of sharpening a pencil. That was the precise point, he claimed, from which all architecture proceeds. And… Read More
The Iterative Power of Architecture’s Absence
7 April 2022
The Iterative Power of Architecture’s Absence7 April 2022
In 1991, the Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron prepared a submission with the artist Remy Zaugg for the Berlin Morgen (‘Berlin Tomorrow’) exhibition organised by the Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Frankfurt, Germany. By surrounding Berlin’s Tiergarten with four new buildings, they proposed to restructure the park – then perceived as… Read More
Wood & Harrison: A Film About a City
21 March 2022
Wood & Harrison: A Film About a City21 March 2022
– Paul Harrison and John Wood
We are not architects. I mean, if you insist, we could probably knock something up, but we are not that good at maths, and not really that great with materials. ‘Wood and Harrison – Architects. You’ll be knocked out by our buildings’. But we have always been interested in architecture.… Read More
Entering the Imperial Palace
16 March 2022
Entering the Imperial Palace16 March 2022
‘What a subject for John Martin!’ exclaimed a passer-by, as the hungry flames flickered up York Minster. Maybe they had in mind his apocalyptic painting The Fall of Nineveh, exhibited that same year at the Western Exchange on Old Bond Street and reproduced widely as a mezzotint print. Unbeknown to… Read More
Postmodern Australia: Robert Pearce’s Drawings for Edmond and Corrigan
1 February 2022
Postmodern Australia: Robert Pearce’s Drawings for Edmond and Corrigan1 February 2022
Writing in Cities of Hope (1993), the historian Conrad Hamann relates that, on mentioning to Robert Venturi the name of the Australian postmodernist architect Peter Corrigan, the first words from Venturi’s mouth were ‘Oh God! Corrigan!’. Yet it must be made clear that to Corrigan, and to his wife and… Read More
Charles Jencks: Architect in the Jumping Universe
25 January 2022
Charles Jencks: Architect in the Jumping Universe25 January 2022
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
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
Aldo Rossi: Dieses Ist Lange Her/ora Questo e Perduto
9 September 2022
Aldo Rossi: Dieses Ist Lange Her/ora Questo e Perduto9 September 2022
– Jaime Tillería Durango
Looking at This was a long time ago/now this is lost, as well as other drawings in Rossi’s unofficial collection of l’architettura assassinata, brings to mind the image of a feast. The scenes are funereal indeed, but they hold a festive aura, as if a celebration had just taken place… Read More
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