In February 1951, Le Corbusier went on his first trip to India. The Government of Punjab – the state that emerged in the northwest after the split of the British Raj – had tasked him with the urban planning of the new regional capital, Chandigarh. As
Nowadays drawing tends to be thought of as an artistic discipline of its own accord, but for a long time it was little more than a tool in the service of art, and it was in technology and science that drawings were considered useful and of value. The
Few texts reflect the partnership of architecture and columns than the above lyrics of the Spanish electronic-music duo Las Bistecs. Though vilified by modernity, columns are a fundamental part of history. And beyond their unavoidable structural func
After a catchy tune, the screen fades to black and on comes a familiar scene: Carrie writing her column by the window, Michael sipping coffee at a desk full of trinkets, Homer on his couch watching TV… All series build make-believe worlds with recurr
Founded by Filipe Paixão in 2014, Corpo Atelier combines architecture and plastic arts in suggestive compositions with which they explore the constructive anatomy of their projects. The structures emerge from photographic cut-outs of textures and mat
Despite the inevitable brevity of her career, Maria Antónia Leite Siza (Porto, 1940-1973) produced more than 3.000 drawings and paintings. Crippled women, disfigured bodies and, in sum, victims of misery and circumstance, filled her work in an exerci
Since 2013, Gabriele Corbo, Jacopo Costanzo, and Valeria Guerrisi lead WAR (Warehouse of Architecture and Research), a hybrid of mannerist architecture studio and contemporary innovation space with a peculiar vision of the creative process. Far from
The drawings of Peter Cook (Southend-on-Sea, 1936) still today bear testimony to those vibrant years of energetic optimism and technological arcadias represented in the iconic collages of Archigram. For Cook, paper is the best tool to express his che
From 6 to 8 October the Palais des Nations in Geneva was the venue of a meeting of ministers from states belonging to the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE). The member states agreed to endorse Regional Action Plan 2030, which seek
Ever since evolution gave the human being prehensile thumbs, humanity has left marks on the world. Many show its tendency to destroy, others its tendency to create. Humans leave marks in many ways, and drawing is one. Scratched on a cave wall, traced
Six months before dying in poverty, the visionary French architect Jean-Jacques Lequeu (1757-1826), after failing to find a buyer, donated hundreds of his drawings to the Bibliothèque nationale de France. His detailed works describe all sorts of them
Coffee table books have bad press, but these two volumes deserve attention. Drawing Architecture gathers almost 300 drawings, from a Sumerian sanctuary floor plan engraved over 4,000 years ago on the sculpture of the architect-king Gudea to H&deM’s E
Before the advent of AutoCAD and other drafting software, the engineering drawings were made on the sheet of papers using drawing boards. Many types of equipment were required to complete a given drawing such as drawing board, different grade pencils
Ever incisive when reflecting on the work of fellow architects and his own, Rafael Moneo knows full well that every architectural exhibition is a metonymy, referring to a truly important reality – buildings – through elements that represent them – ph
Already in its inaugural issue, back in June 1988, this magazine made room for commentary on architecture’s new digital tools, which were changing the way architects graphically represented the buildings that they imagined, and gradually even the act
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During the thirty years she worked in the Soviet Space Program, architect Galina Balashova (Moscow, 1931) managed to add beauty and harmony to the high-technology world of spacecrafts, laboratories, and survival equipments. After the launch in 1951 o
With an interdisciplinary approach, the independent publishing platform HipoTesis was set up in 2009 with the objective of creating a place, a network for the exchange of ideas, proposals, and reflections, establishing connections and promoting dialo
Rafael Moneo: A Theoretical Reflection from within the Profession is the first major retrospective on the oeuvre of the Navarrese architect.
Uncontrolled urbanism, the aesthetics of waste and the paradoxes of globalization are the target of the hilarious satires of Miguel Brieva, one of the fundamental authors of contemporary Spanish comics.
With the recent death of Moebius, comics has lost one of its most personal creators, the creator of a vast dreamlike world in which the architectural settings are as important as the heroes who inhabit them.
AV Proyectos 51 includes the drawings of Nigel Peake, extracted from the meticulous publications in which the Irish artist organizes his illustrations by theme. Peake’s images show his interest in architecture, career from which he graduated at Edinb
Giovanni-Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) signed all his books as ‘Venetian architect’, although he only carried out one building. The shortage of commissions in Rome in 1740 led him to replace the architect’s tools for the engraver’s burin, generating
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