The Architectural Review's Folio

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Sun, 19 May 2013 11:30:21 +0100

Hiding Places, by Matthew Borrett

Sat, 18 May 2013 11:30:26 +0100

Hiding Places, by Matthew Borrett

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Fri, 17 May 2013 11:30:38 +0100

Inner mountain methane collector, by Eyal Landman

Thu, 16 May 2013 11:30:17 +0100

Inner mountain methane collector, by Eyal Landman

Perspective Drawing for Milton Keynes, Helmut Jacoby (1973)

Wed, 15 May 2013 11:30:44 +0100

Perspective Drawing for Milton Keynes, Helmut Jacoby (1973)

A Simple Heart, DOGMA Studio (2002-2010) ‘When...

Tue, 14 May 2013 17:19:35 +0100

A Simple Heart, DOGMA Studio (2002-2010)

‘When architectural form is reduced to its essential nature in this way, what it stages and makes visible is not itself but the life that unfolds within its limits’

Dominic Perrault, Inside the Prism Ink-jet on photographic...

Sat, 11 May 2013 11:30:19 +0100

Dominic Perrault, Inside the Prism

Ink-jet on photographic paper, 1999

Columbarium Habitabile, Alexander Brodsky & Ilya Utkin,...

Fri, 10 May 2013 11:30:00 +0100

Columbarium Habitabile, Alexander Brodsky & Ilya Utkin, 1990

‘The Museum of Disappearing Buildings’ features a pendulum wrecking ball looming in the upper third of its composition, threatening to destroy any unoccupied dwelling shelved on this enormous archive. All in the name of progress…

Antoine Laurent Thomas Vaudoyer, Sognio di Casa Cosmopolitana,...

Thu, 09 May 2013 11:30:26 +0100

Antoine Laurent Thomas Vaudoyer, Sognio di Casa Cosmopolitana, 1782

A small sketch study in pencil, ink and wash, dating from the elder Vaudoyer’s time at the French Academy in Rome, for his ‘maison d’un cosmopolite’: a vision of a domestic temple to universal knowledge that began to circulate widely in print and drawn form from 1785 and was ingrained in the architectural discourse for much of the early 19th century.

Vaudoyer’s was the best known and perhaps earliest of many late Enlightenment speculations on spherical dwellings and memorials that might capture an entire cosmos of natural science. Vaudoyer lays astronomical and astrological features on its outer surfaces, and organises the interior spaces to capture not just the range of human knowledge, but the varieties of mood, sense and feeling that mark our universal condition.

It is eerily prescient of today’s cosmopolitan and digital era in which we have access in the single space around us to that vast range of knowledge and ideas of which Vaudoyer was ‘dreaming’ and to the endless possibility of engaging our emotions with them.

Nicholas Olsberg

futureproofdesigns: St Pancras (Sectional Drawing) Alan...

Wed, 08 May 2013 11:30:31 +0100

futureproofdesigns:

St Pancras (Sectional Drawing)

Alan Dunlop

c. 2009

pencil on paper (hand generated image)

Lincoln Mercury Showroom (Glendale, California): exterior light...

Tue, 07 May 2013 11:30:46 +0100

Lincoln Mercury Showroom (Glendale, California): exterior light perspective, ca. 1948
Creator(s): John Lautner (1911 - 1994)

Medium: ink on paper

Dimensions: Sheet: 30.5 x 24.1 cm (12 x 9 1/2 in.)

euphues: Elevation detail of the Frederick C. Bogk House,...

Mon, 06 May 2013 11:30:32 +0100

euphues:

Elevation detail of the Frederick C. Bogk House, 1916-1917

[Graphite, watercolor, and ink on paper]

architectureofdoom: rosswolfe: Nikolai Krasil’nikov’s...

Sun, 05 May 2013 11:30:31 +0100

architectureofdoom:

rosswolfe:

Nikolai Krasil’nikov’s terrifying planar urbanism (1928):

The mathematicization of architectural projects (in which this work does not pretend to any degree of finality) must be based on a mass of scientific research into such factors as the psycho-physical effect on the human organism of light, heat-energy, the quality of air, of color, space and form, amongst many other factors.

The successes of the last decade in mathematical statistics and analysis must herald their even further development in the future, and all such progress will greatly assist the solution to our architectural tasks.

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Sat, 04 May 2013 11:30:32 +0100

Central California History Museum, Muse Archive, Cryptic Drawing

Fri, 03 May 2013 11:30:31 +0100

Central California History Museum, Muse Archive, Cryptic Drawing

Perry Kulper - Central California History Museum, Proto-Formal...

Thu, 02 May 2013 11:30:00 +0100

Perry Kulper - Central California History Museum, Proto-Formal Section

Soon, over 70 percent of the worlds growing population will...

Wed, 01 May 2013 12:59:02 +0100

Soon, over 70 percent of the worlds growing population will live in cities. Changes in climatic conditions, in manufacturing and agricultural production, the increasing strain on finite resources and the ever more complex supply chains necessary to supply our populations compel architects to reconsider the near future face of the urban environment, as diverse pressures make the increasing density of many cities an inevitability.

Projects on show cover a wide range of locations and programmes but share some common concerns: they all posit forms of symbiotic relation between systems, seeing architecture as an art of connection.

From a novel response to urban change in Tokyo to the establishment of autonomous manufacturing facilities and network nodes in the southern Sahara, all of the proposals arise out of individual responses to immanent issues: not empty form making, but rather considered design research positions.

ERGODICITY

Where: Mowlem Street Studios, Bethnal Green London
When: Thursday 2nd of May 2013 at 6pm
Price: Free

Rather charming set of drawings from a rail service during its...

Wed, 01 May 2013 11:30:24 +0100

Rather charming set of drawings from a rail service during its better years, on display at the National Rail Museum

Drawing for the unmistakeable Unité d’habitation, Le...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 11:30:30 +0100

Drawing for the unmistakeable Unité d’habitation, Le Corbusier, 1948

http://drawingsformanhattan.tumblr.com/ Drawings by Jeff...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 11:30:44 +0100

http://drawingsformanhattan.tumblr.com/

Drawings by Jeff Konigsberg