Tag: presentation
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
Pier Leone Ghezzi
20 January 2017
Pier Leone Ghezzi20 January 2017
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
19 January 2017
Olsberg: Gordon Matta-Clark19 January 2017
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
19 January 2017
Jungmann: L’art tue19 January 2017
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
15 January 2017
Stalder: Projected Sections15 January 2017
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Thomas: Aitchison / Prendergast
30 December 2016
Thomas: Aitchison / Prendergast30 December 2016
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Forty: Philip Webb
23 December 2016
Forty: Philip Webb23 December 2016
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Gowan: a rather beautiful coherence
12 December 2016
Gowan: a rather beautiful coherence12 December 2016
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
18 November 2016
Charles Percier18 November 2016
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Peter Wilson: A Public Convenience Remembered
18 November 2016
Peter Wilson: A Public Convenience Remembered18 November 2016
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Louis Bricard
8 November 2016
Louis Bricard8 November 2016
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Auerbach: Stone Adversaries – Ruskin’s Rocks, Hejduk’s Diamonds
24 October 2016
Auerbach: Stone Adversaries – Ruskin’s Rocks, Hejduk’s Diamonds24 October 2016
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A Civic Utopia Exhibition
8 October 2016
A Civic Utopia Exhibition8 October 2016
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Nicholas Olsberg: Some Thoughts on Sheds
7 October 2016
Nicholas Olsberg: Some Thoughts on Sheds7 October 2016
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Fontaine
4 October 2016
Fontaine4 October 2016
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Casswell Bank Architects
18 September 2016
Casswell Bank Architects18 September 2016
– 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
Richard J. Neutra: Visitor Center at Gettysburg National Park
22 August 2016
Richard J. Neutra: Visitor Center at Gettysburg National Park22 August 2016
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
7 August 2016
Michael Graves7 August 2016
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
1 August 2016
Jean-Baptiste Lassus1 August 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
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
Lähteenmäki: Superstudio
30 January 2017
Lähteenmäki: Superstudio30 January 2017
– 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
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