DMJ 1 – the Geological Imagination—Contents
Editors’ Introduction
Ruskin Rock Collection
Asphalt Tales and the Ends of History
— Nicholas Boyarsky
Ernest Born’s marble mural
Shallow Cuts: the Geological Sectioning of Newcastle, NSW
— Michael Chapman
J.M. Gandy on the sources of architecture
‘All the varieties of Nature’s works under ground’: the Geological Imagination of Alexander Pope
— Yue Zhuang
Grandville on the mineral origin of forms
The Sound of Magma: Geographies of Infrasound, Vibrating Bodies, and Representing the Earth
— Adam Bobbette
Louis Visconti on the stone for Napoleon’s tomb
From Hearths to Volcanoes: the Armenian glkhatun
— Guillaume Othenin-Girard
A temple to Abraham Gottlob Werner,
and John Kay’s portrait of James Hutton
Grotto-Heavens: Rockeries, Dreamscapes and the Chinese Garden
— Ethan Loo
Niall Hobhouse on early travellers to Petra
Dialogues between Architecture and Granite in Punta Sardegna
— Alberto Ponis
Martin Bressani on Viollet-le-Duc and Mont Blanc
From Landscape to Mapscape:
Robert Smithson’s Maps
— Bernhard Siegert
Author biographies
DMJournal—Architecture and Representation
Drawing Matter Trust (Reg. Charity 264878), 8 Smart’s Place, London, WC2B 5LW.
DMJournal in collaboration with the Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (ESALA), Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh.
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.
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