Period: c20th
Buckminster Fuller
2 October 2015
Buckminster Fuller2 October 2015
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Buckminster Fuller
1 October 2015
Buckminster Fuller1 October 2015
Slenderness, Lightness, and Strength.
Ugo la Pietra
11 September 2015
Ugo la Pietra11 September 2015
Isolation or participation? The immersions were allusions to two contrary attitudes ever present in the deportment of so many in this era: a readiness to join the currents of social change or a determination to isolate oneself, waiting for what might be next.
Preamble to a New World
4 September 2015
Preamble to a New World4 September 2015
– Constant
Stones speak. Towns speak. Ruins and skylines: the story of the people. From ‘Preamble to a New World,’ New Babylon, 1963.
Constant’s New Babylon
3 September 2015
Constant’s New Babylon3 September 2015
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Paul Rudolph
28 August 2015
Paul Rudolph28 August 2015
I try to find a graphic means of indicating what’s happening to the space. Space can move quickly or slowly. It can twist and turn. Space extends the dynamics of any building, because if the thrusting and counter-thrusting of the spaces aren’t balanced, then people feel unstable, the building doesn’t… Read More
John Lautner
28 August 2015
John Lautner28 August 2015
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History & Origins
21 August 2015
History & Origins21 August 2015
And these old drawings […] now have their own history, an almost enforced form of composition. And yet I wonder at the fact that they are the origin or germ of these new architectural works, which others could regard as more professional. In actual fact, invention and imagination have deeper… Read More
Erik Gunnar Asplund
14 August 2015
Erik Gunnar Asplund14 August 2015
Erik Gunnar Asplund’s son Ingemar told me that their father would pick him and his brother Hans up on Sundays to take them to the summer house. (He was then living with a woman other than their mother.) Father would make a little conversation as they made their way to… Read More
Le Corbusier
1 August 2015
Le Corbusier1 August 2015
I should like to give you the hatred of rendering … Architecture is in space, in extent, in depth, in height: it is volumes and circulation. Architecture is made inside one’s head. The sheet of paper is useful only to fix the design, to transmit to one’s client and one’s… Read More
Five Boxes
10 June 2015
Five Boxes10 June 2015
Line drawing — drawing without shading, cross-hatching or chiaroscuro — permits and conveys the most precise sense of accuracy of any kind of drawing. The facts are laid bare, nothing can be fudged or obscured. Leonardo used line drawing for his studies of everything from flying machines to the human… Read More
Wagnerschule
1 June 2015
Wagnerschule1 June 2015
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Robert Bray
27 May 2015
Robert Bray27 May 2015
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Jacques Couëlle
8 January 2015
Jacques Couëlle8 January 2015
Call it ‘Potomania’ — plants and flowers above all … a column of water cascading freely on to a little pond … the column a staff both shining and singing. — Jacques Couëlle
Work on Paper: The changing metropolis 1940s–1980s
29 November 2013
Work on Paper: The changing metropolis 1940s–1980s29 November 2013
– Niall Hobhouse and Nicholas Olsberg
Part III: Monumentalism and motion 1940s –1980s A night rendering, making cinematic use of the dynamics of movement to suggest modernity, appears in the émigré architect Vassilieve’s ideal Manhattan, his animated drawing technique demonstrating how the varied shelves and openings of a setback megablock scheme bring energy and momentum, light… Read More
Work on Paper: The changing metropolis 1900–1930s
26 November 2013
Work on Paper: The changing metropolis 1900–1930s26 November 2013
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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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Work on Paper: Future Scenarios, Part I
30 May 2013
Work on Paper: Future Scenarios, Part I30 May 2013
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Work on Paper, part IV: Displaced persons
3 October 2012
Work on Paper, part IV: Displaced persons3 October 2012
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Architectural anxiety
28 September 2011
Architectural anxiety28 September 2011
– Niall Hobhouse and Nicholas Olsberg
This instalment explores the rich pathologies of architectural anxiety: the nagging pressure of what architects know and admire, or have seen and rejected. Or of what it is in the work of other architects, and in their own past practice, which they are driven always to acknowledge in the buildings… Read More
Simplification
6 May 2011
Simplification6 May 2011
– Niall Hobhouse and Nicholas Olsberg
The first of these short excursions into work on paper looked at how drawings were used to place built forms in their settings. Grounded in traditions of illustration, they were spacious, suggestive and pictorial. Architects draw to many purposes. In Part II, on Simplification, we turn from the arts of… Read More
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
Haus-Rücker-Co.
9 October 2015
Haus-Rücker-Co.9 October 2015
This art collective – we might call them the ‘house thief company’ or ‘house drawing company’– took its name from a pun on the verb ‘to draw’ and an old slang word for ‘thief’. Their projects during this period involved interventions in which a house or building would be ‘stolen’… Read More
concept & diagram domestic exhibition projection (axonometric isometric) publication sketch