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Ange-Jacques Gabriel
22 February 2017
Ange-Jacques Gabriel22 February 2017
On occasion, an architectural drawing can serve as the surviving witness of a moving and complex historical event. Here, on a mutilated sheet of paper drawn in the middle of eighteenth century in the office of the most important architect of his day, we have the only record of a building on the… Read More
Stalder: Projected Sections
15 January 2017
Stalder: Projected Sections15 January 2017
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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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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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A Civic Utopia Exhibition
8 October 2016
A Civic Utopia Exhibition8 October 2016
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Fontaine
1 August 2016
Fontaine1 August 2016
Architectural historians have focused on the history of drawing as one of project design tools. By applying the methods of art history, one can trace colour as a key player in the long history of rivalry and exchange between European traditions in architectural drawing and practice. While Italian Renaissance drawings… Read More
Rem Koolhaas: EuroDisney
29 January 2016
Rem Koolhaas: EuroDisney29 January 2016
Looking up toward a glass ceiling, the drawing shows the atrium of this luxury hotel – a ‘bridge’, which was to connect an island to a park creating a sequence of flowing, layered landscapes both inside and outside. Using sinuous forms, rising to a view of the sky, Koolhaas turns… Read More
A Lung for the City
27 November 2015
A Lung for the City27 November 2015
A lung for the city. A 24-hour workshop where all can extend their knowledge and delight in learning. From its start and throughout its construction and development, all must be welcomed to observe its continuous growth and change. No area should be hidden and no hour inappropriate. The opportunity to… Read More
Three Projects
12 November 2015
Three Projects12 November 2015
I believe in the density of the sparse. The Diamond Thesis is both creative and analytical. It implies new points of view in architectural space. It delineates with clarity the frontal facet of isometric projection in the two-dimensional space of the picture plane of the drawings. The realisation that works… Read More
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
Dismantled Sketchbook
1 November 2015
Dismantled Sketchbook1 November 2015
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
Pier Vittorio Aureli
15 October 2015
Pier Vittorio Aureli15 October 2015
The Marriage of Reason and Squalor is a set of drawings I’ve produced since 2001. They are an investigation into what, in the absence of a better definition, I’ve called ‘non-compositional architecture’. Since the very beginning, I’ve conceived of these drawings as something to be executed by the simplest of means,… 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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John Lautner
28 August 2015
John Lautner28 August 2015
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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 1815–1900
27 November 2013
Work on Paper: The changing metropolis 1815–190027 November 2013
– Niall Hobhouse and Nicholas Olsberg
Part I: Shifting scales and structures The transformation of the modern metropolis is not so much about expanding urban mats and changing topographic patterns as about how architects responded, structure by structure and type by type, to the shifting scales, capacities and ways of working that the city demanded of… Read More
Work on Paper: Future Scenarios, Part III
3 June 2013
Work on Paper: Future Scenarios, Part III3 June 2013
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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
Ellis: James Gowan
2 March 2017
Ellis: James Gowan2 March 2017
– Ellis Woodman
While typically, the architect employs the sketchbook as a raft by which to navigate the relentless flow of day-to-day practice, those that James Gowan assembled, across the course of his long professional life, served as a more elevated and leisurely mode of transport. Questions that he was addressing in the… Read More
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