Medium: collage
Architecten De Vylder Vinck Taillieu
7 September 2017
Architecten De Vylder Vinck Taillieu7 September 2017
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Elizabeth Hatz
18 April 2017
Elizabeth Hatz18 April 2017
Permanence – drawing as adjuration (incantation) If architecture, like art, is a way of asking forgiveness for being mortal (consider the Egyptians or Etruscans), making something last long after the last sigh of its author and searching for a form of permanence, transcending the most ephemeral moment, then the architectural… Read More
Perry Kulper
14 February 2017
Perry Kulper14 February 2017
‘Spatial Blooms’ and Digital Expectations Within the currently dominant visual culture, architectural drawing is persistently called to compete with a wide range of digital modes of visualisation, as well as fabrication, that tend towards simulation rather than representation. Is architectural drawing rendered redundant in this proliferation of digital renderings? And,… Read More
Dorrian: Michael Webb
1 February 2017
Dorrian: Michael Webb1 February 2017
In his drawings for the Sin Centre, Michael Webb constantly returns to the parts of the project that are to do with movement – the undulant mechanical escalators and the complex vehicle system through which cars enter and flow through the building on ramps that loop around, cross over and… Read More
Catrina Beevor
25 January 2017
Catrina Beevor25 January 2017
These drawings from 1987 formed part of NATØ’s Heathrow Airport project, exhibited in The British Edge show at the ICA Boston, USA, in the same year. The proposal (in the first drawing) shows an Arrivals landscape spectacularised by indoctrination booths: cricket, the NHS, weather, accents… In the middle distance (depicted… Read More
Black Airground
23 December 2016
Black Airground23 December 2016
For Black Airground the artists – Jeffrey Shaw, Theo Botschuijver and Sean Wellesley-Miller – positioned three black military surplus parachutes in a row on the floor of the gallery in the Oxford Museum of Art, entirely filling the exhibition space. Weighted around their rims with sand, these parachutes were continuously inflated with… Read More
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
Seven Farmyards
22 April 2016
Seven Farmyards22 April 2016
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Michael Webb: Sin Centre
5 December 2015
Michael Webb: Sin Centre5 December 2015
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Walter Pichler
16 October 2015
Walter Pichler16 October 2015
Architecture … is a brutal matter … it crushes those who cannot stand it. Quoted from a manuscript statement, c. 1962
Walter Pichler: 20 Sketches from the Archives 1961–63
13 October 2015
Walter Pichler: 20 Sketches from the Archives 1961–6313 October 2015
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Work on Paper: Future Scenarios, Part III
3 June 2013
Work on Paper: Future Scenarios, Part III3 June 2013
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Landscape situations
21 January 2011
Landscape situations21 January 2011
– Niall Hobhouse and Nicholas Olsberg
Setting it out: making the landscape For Horace Walpole, William Kent was born with a genius to strike out a great system from the twilight of imperfect essays. “He leaped the fence, and saw that all nature was a garden.” With apparent innocence, the sketch Landscape in Wimbledon proposes only… Read More
Zünd-Up
27 May 2017
Zünd-Up27 May 2017
– Erik Wegerhoff
Collage was a favourite medium of Pop artists, since it inherited from its forerunners the quality of enabling chance meetings, and allowed artists to assemble images from the by then endless reservoir of commercial culture. This collage from the series Erotische Architektur (Erotic Architecture), dated 1969 and signed by the Viennese activist and architecture group Zünd-Up, can… Read More
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