Tag: domestic
The Lost Art of Drawing
4 November 2015
The Lost Art of Drawing4 November 2015
I personally like to draw on translucent … tracing paper, which allows me to layer one drawing on top of another, building on what I’ve drawn before, and again, creating a personal, emotional connection with the work. With both of these types of drawings [the referential sketch and the preparatory… Read More
Battleground
2 November 2015
Battleground2 November 2015
To some extent this is the battleground of the British architectural avant-garde; the incompatibilities of graphics and architecture, the freedom that the former allows and the restrictions that the latter asserts. In recent years, the graphics have got smoother whilst the dialectic has remained largely unresolved. A conclusive project is… Read More
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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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
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.
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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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
Wagnerschule
1 June 2015
Wagnerschule1 June 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: Future Scenarios, Part I
30 May 2013
Work on Paper: Future Scenarios, Part I30 May 2013
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Dismantled Sketchbook
1 November 2015
Dismantled Sketchbook1 November 2015
– James Gowan
To some extent this is the battle-ground of the British architectural avant-garde; the incompatibilities of graphics and architecture, the freedom that the former allows and the restrictions that the latter asserts. In recent years, the graphics have got smoother whilst the dialectic has remained largely unresolved. A conclusive project is… Read More
domestic plan projection (axonometric isometric) section sketch theoretical & imaginary