Tag: presentation

Lähteenmäki: Superstudio

Lähteenmäki: Superstudio

Markus Lähteenmäki

It is distinctive that in Superstudio’s practice, the search for the means of manifestation was as rigorous as the research itself. The first major work where Superstudio seems to have found the pace it was to follow was Un Viaggio nelle Regioni della Ragione. This project, first appearing in 1966 and… Read More

Catrina Beevor

Catrina Beevor

Catrina Beevor

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

Pier Leone Ghezzi

Pier Leone Ghezzi

Rachel Hapoienu

This drawing by the Roman artist Ghezzi depicts an unusual funerary monument, commissioned by the Sacchetti family for their beloved donkey called ‘Grillo’ (Cricket). According to the extensive inscription, this clever and loyal animal regularly carried baskets all alone from central Rome to the Sacchetti’s Villa Pigneto, ten kilometres away.… Read More

Olsberg: Gordon Matta-Clark

Olsberg: Gordon Matta-Clark

Nicholas Olsberg

During a poetry reading at St Mark’s Church in the East Village of New York in 1973 Gordon Matta-Clark announced that he would draw on a roll of butcher paper an account of the history of architecture with a single long stroke of the pen. At the conclusion he would… Read More

Jungmann: L’art tue

Jungmann: L’art tue

Jean-Paul Jungmann

L’ART TUE [Art Kills] L’ART TUE was the the name of a poster project, most likely between 1975 and 1976. It followed the theoretical and literary Groupe Utopie [Utopia Group] adventure and their publications between 1966 and 1969, and after the Aerolande development work which lasted until 1975. However, it came… Read More

Stalder: Projected Sections

Stalder: Projected Sections

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Thomas: Aitchison / Prendergast

Thomas: Aitchison / Prendergast

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Forty: Philip Webb

Forty: Philip Webb

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Gowan: a rather beautiful coherence

Gowan: a rather beautiful coherence

Charles Rice

James Gowan’s Section through house with mechanical services is a presentation drawing made as part of his scheme for ninety-eight council dwellings in East Hanningfield, Essex, completed in 1978. What we might call the ‘image’ of the East Hanningfield scheme is given by the large round windows which mark the façades… Read More

Charles Percier

Charles Percier

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Peter Wilson: A Public Convenience Remembered

Peter Wilson: A Public Convenience Remembered

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Louis Bricard

Louis Bricard

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Auerbach: Stone Adversaries – Ruskin’s Rocks, Hejduk’s Diamonds

Auerbach: Stone Adversaries – Ruskin’s Rocks, Hejduk’s Diamonds

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A Civic Utopia Exhibition

A Civic Utopia Exhibition

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Nicholas Olsberg: Some Thoughts on Sheds

Nicholas Olsberg: Some Thoughts on Sheds

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Fontaine

Fontaine

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Casswell Bank Architects

Casswell Bank Architects

Alex Bank and Sam Casswell

The Garden Rooms academy drawing by Casswell Bank Architect’s is a depiction of the relationship between the new shed, the Maltings buildings and its gardens located at the western edge of Bruton. The drawing extends beyond the adjacent road connecting the town with the countryside and the river Brue that… Read More

Barthélemy Enfantin

Barthélemy Enfantin

Helen Thomas

This strange, flat drawing in watercolour, ink and pencil comprises a sheet of studies thought to be made by French economist and political theorist Barthélemy Prosper Enfantin in 1849. It depicts ideas for the organisation of a military complex, a cité militaire, possibly with Algeria in mind as a location. Enfantin published… Read More

Richard J. Neutra: Visitor Center at Gettysburg National Park

Richard J. Neutra: Visitor Center at Gettysburg National Park

Nicholas Olsberg

In 1941, the US National Park Service acquired one of numerous versions of a 360-degree cyclorama, an in-the-round painting of the turning point in the great rebellion against the American union at Gettysburg in July 1863. First painted 20 years after the battle, the panels filled a drum 80 feet… Read More

Michael Graves

Michael Graves

Helen Thomas

When they were made and for a long while afterwards the drawings of Michael Graves were influential for a generation of American, Canadian and British architecture students who coveted their fine papers, delicate colouring techniques and characterful hand-drawn lines in pencil and ink. These all seemed so appropriate to the… Read More

Jean-Baptiste Lassus

Jean-Baptiste Lassus

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Fontaine

Fontaine

Basile Baudez

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

Friedensreich Hundertwasser

Friedensreich Hundertwasser

Helen Thomas

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