Writer: Brian Carter
What does a drawing sound like?
20 July 2023
What does a drawing sound like?20 July 2023
Drawings in Mechanization Takes Command almost clank. Designs for a threshing machine in the 1770s, plans for a Mechanical Reaper submitted to the British Patent Office in 1811, and Cyrus McCormick’s subsequent design for the American farmer, all included iron wheels, heavy plate, and flailing chains. Those drawings selected by… Read More
Louis Kahn: Notes on a Scrap of Paper
30 April 2020
Louis Kahn: Notes on a Scrap of Paper30 April 2020
This scrap of paper, perhaps scooped up from the floor or a waste basket in Louis Kahn’s studio on Chestnut Street in Philadelphia, shows a single sketch – spidery lines outlining a modest block and strange openings. Beginning drawing in 1958 Kahn searched for a design of a new building… Read More
Hybrid Studio
23 July 2020
Hybrid Studio23 July 2020
– Brian Carter
Describing how architects work, Liz Diller noted that in her office ‘we draw, we look in each other’s eyes, we argue, we throw things around the room, we make models and break them apart, and somehow stuff gets made.’ However, things suddenly changed in March 2020. It became ‘very sanitized…… Read More
social engagement Teaching (project) sketch projection (axonometric isometric) transport