Category: drawing histories
Jungmann: L’art tue
19 January 2017
Jungmann: L’art tue19 January 2017
L’ART TUE [Art Kills] L’ART TUE was the the name of a poster project, most likely between 1975 and 1976. It followed the theoretical and literary Groupe Utopie [Utopia Group] adventure and their publications between 1966 and 1969, and after the Aerolande development work which lasted until 1975. However, it came… Read More
Caruso St John Architects
18 January 2017
Caruso St John Architects18 January 2017
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Jessie Brennan
4 January 2017
Jessie Brennan4 January 2017
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Forty: Philip Webb
23 December 2016
Forty: Philip Webb23 December 2016
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Gowan: a rather beautiful coherence
12 December 2016
Gowan: a rather beautiful coherence12 December 2016
James Gowan’s Section through house with mechanical services is a presentation drawing made as part of his scheme for ninety-eight council dwellings in East Hanningfield, Essex, completed in 1978. What we might call the ‘image’ of the East Hanningfield scheme is given by the large round windows which mark the façades… Read More
Peter Myers
5 December 2016
Peter Myers5 December 2016
It is a truism that aggressive building contractors treat architectural drawings with contempt; McAlpine’s were no exception and it being my temporary responsibility in 1969 to negotiate a procedure of actually constructing the visible fair faced in-situ concrete of this vast structure, I arrived at The Brunswick’s site office ready for a… Read More
Deanna Petherbridge
28 November 2016
Deanna Petherbridge28 November 2016
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Marie–José Van Hee: Black Drawings
23 November 2016
Marie–José Van Hee: Black Drawings23 November 2016
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Peter Wilson: A Public Convenience Remembered
18 November 2016
Peter Wilson: A Public Convenience Remembered18 November 2016
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Charles Percier
18 November 2016
Charles Percier18 November 2016
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Charles Barry: Travel Sketching
11 November 2016
Charles Barry: Travel Sketching11 November 2016
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The Black Drawings of Marie-José Van Hee
9 November 2016
The Black Drawings of Marie-José Van Hee9 November 2016
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Paul Robbrecht
2 November 2016
Paul Robbrecht2 November 2016
Watercolour is not the traditional medium one associates with architectural plans, particularly those that are realised in built form. I believe this is what caught my eye while searching for a drawing by Walter Pichler and instead discovered a portfolio of drawings by Paul Robbrecht. Aue Paviljoenen project B depicts… Read More
The Double or Panoramic Structure of the Perspective
24 October 2016
The Double or Panoramic Structure of the Perspective24 October 2016
What is compelling about the sketches of Mies van der Rohe is their reliance on a pictorial composition that actively distorts perspectival conventions. This type of distortion is evident consistently across his more finished presentations drawings as well as his sketches. In using perspective as his main visualising tool Mies… Read More
Auerbach: Stone Adversaries – Ruskin’s Rocks, Hejduk’s Diamonds
24 October 2016
Auerbach: Stone Adversaries – Ruskin’s Rocks, Hejduk’s Diamonds24 October 2016
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Alexander Brodsky
15 October 2016
Alexander Brodsky15 October 2016
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Cedric Price: Bathat
8 August 2016
Cedric Price: Bathat8 August 2016
Swiftly drawn in soft orange-red crayon, four upright fingers sit astride a flying platform. We instantly recognise the volume and mass of Battersea Power Station; but the weight has vanished with the walls. The uplift is palpable: thin red pen lines inscribe the geometry of the stripped back steels, but… Read More
Michael Graves
7 August 2016
Michael Graves7 August 2016
When they were made and for a long while afterwards the drawings of Michael Graves were influential for a generation of American, Canadian and British architecture students who coveted their fine papers, delicate colouring techniques and characterful hand-drawn lines in pencil and ink. These all seemed so appropriate to the… Read More
Alexander Pope: ‘et sibi’
1 August 2016
Alexander Pope: ‘et sibi’1 August 2016
The great poet carefully instructs Francis Bird on the memorial tablet for his father – also Alexander Pope – to be placed in the north gallery of St Mary’s, Twickenham. Pope asks the sculptor to record his own respect for his father, to leave a space for his mother’s name… Read More
Pier Vittorio Aureli
1 August 2016
Pier Vittorio Aureli1 August 2016
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Jean-Baptiste Lassus
1 August 2016
Jean-Baptiste Lassus1 August 2016
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Mies van der Rohe: Neue Stadt
22 July 2016
Mies van der Rohe: Neue Stadt22 July 2016
In the photographs most often reproduced of the Glass Skyscraper by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the tower stands in the middle of a clay model of an old city. The model acts as a presentation of an imagined reality, of what it might be when built. The beacon of… Read More
Friedensreich Hundertwasser
15 July 2016
Friedensreich Hundertwasser15 July 2016
Hauteurs de Macchu-Picchu, or the Heights of Macchu Picchu is a poem by Pablo Neruda written in 1945 that embraces a visit he made to the site in Peru, and includes within it a critique of modern life. The mountainous location is echoed in the form of this pile of… Read More
Thomas: Aitchison / Prendergast
30 December 2016
Thomas: Aitchison / Prendergast30 December 2016
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