DMJ 1 – The Geological Imagination

i. Editors’ Introduction

02 Asphalt Tales and the Ends of History
— Nicholas Boyarsky

24 Ernest Born’s marble mural

26 Shallow Cuts: the Geological Sectioning of Newcastle, NSW
— Michael Chapman

50 J.M. Gandy on the sources of architecture

52 ‘All the varieties of Nature’s works under ground’: the Geological Imagination of Alexander Pope
— Yue Zhuang

72 Grandville on the mineral origin of forms

74 The Sound of Magma: Geographies of Infrasound, Vibrating Bodies, and Representing the Earth
— Adam Bobbette

98 Louis Visconti on the stone for Napoleon’s tomb

100 From Hearths to Volcanoes: the Armenian glkhatun
— Guillaume Othenin-Girard

134 A temple to Abraham Gottlob Werner,
and John Kay’s portrait of James Hutton

136 Grotto-Heavens: Rockeries, Dreamscapes and the Chinese Garden
— Ethan Loo

166 Niall Hobhouse on early travellers to Petra

170 Dialogues between Architecture and Granite in Punta Sardegna
— Alberto Ponis

190 Martin Bressani on Viollet-le-Duc and Mont Blanc

194 From Landscape to Mapscape:
Robert Smithson’s Maps
— Bernhard Siegert

214 Nicholas Olsberg on William Butterfield’s Babbacombe floor

218 Ian Boyd Whyte on Bruno Taut’s alpine visions

01, 23, 49, 71, 91, 133, 65, 189, 213 Ruskin Rock Collection

Author biographies

Publisher
Drawing Matter Trust

Editor-in-Chief
Mark Dorrian

Guest Editor
Kurt Forster

Editorial Assistants
Paddi Alice Benson, Sophie Wehtje

Drawing Matter
Matt Page, Jackie Brooks, Rosie McAllister, Craig Stevens, Rebecca Reading
Copy Editing, Elisabeth Ingles

Advisory Committee
Stan Allen, Brian Carter, Paul Carter, Maarten Delbeke, Mark Dorrian, Paul Emmons, Kurt Forster, Anthony Geraghty, Niall Hobhouse, Olivia Horsfall Turner, Tim Ingold, Deanna Petherbridge, Peter Wilson.

Peer Review Statement
Long-form articles submitted to DMJournal are subject to a double-bind peer review process, involving two readers. Accepted articles are subsequently developed for publication in close dialogue with the editors.

Design
Cartlidge Levene

No. 1: The Geological Imagination
Spring 2023
© The Authors and DMJournal, 2023.

The Editors would like to thank
Konogan Beaufay; Katrin Bellinger; Ian Cartlidge, Simon Young, and Ellen Jonsson (Cartlidge Levene); Maristella Casciato (Getty Research Institute); Irina Davidovici; David De Long; Helen Dorey and Sue Palmer (Sir John Soane’s Museum); Lisa Le Feuvre (Holt/Smithson Foundation); Laurence King; Sylvia Lavin; Kendra Matchett; Rosa Nussbaum (Studio Christopher Victor); Janet Parks; Jane Yeoman; AnnaRita Zalaffi; and the anonymous peer-reviewers of the articles submitted for this issue.