Sketch model of intervention ideas
Posted 26 Nov 2015 17:01
Bollington 2015/16
Thumb mark as a remnant of the artisan process of brick making. As seen on Grand Designs.
Posted 26 Nov 2015 13:40
Herbert Bayer, Lonely Metropolitan (1932)
"Vision and tactile sense are fused in actual lived experience." - The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses, Juhani Pallasmaa
"Vision and tactile sense are fused in actual lived experience." - The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses, Juhani Pallasmaa
Posted 23 Nov 2015 22:22
Wrapping: Architects Team Up with Khmer Women to Build a Community Centre with Fabric and Concrete.
Posted 23 Nov 2015 16:51
“Adolf Loos radicalised Semper by postulating the first task of the architect is 'to hang the curtains of the room', that is, to decide what the atmosphere would be, and then afterwards he had to devise a structure that would keep all the curtains in place.” - Paul Vermeulen, Knitting Wrapping Weaving Pressing
Posted 23 Nov 2015 09:38
Atmosphere
- Swan Lake Rehersal, Opera de Paris (1930), Alfred Eisenstaedt
- Swan Lake Rehersal, Opera de Paris (1930), Alfred Eisenstaedt
Posted 23 Nov 2015 09:37
Exploring the boundary between Art and Design in Visual Culture.
- Fluxkit, George Maciunas (1965)
- Fluxkit, George Maciunas (1965)
Posted 23 Nov 2015 09:28
Part of my axo investigating thresholds in Bollington Market Place
Posted 22 Nov 2015 20:25
A lining of grand scale, enclosing the Bollington Market Place, contrasts with the domestic scale of the terraced house.
Posted 21 Nov 2015 08:49
"The series of walls at Edfu are detached linings. The outer linings enhance the enclosed inner spaces by making them seem protected and mysterious"
(Venturi, 1966)
(Venturi, 1966)
Posted 21 Nov 2015 08:46
Do Ho Suh's translucent fabric forms emphasize the discontinuity of space and time in contemporary life.
Posted 21 Nov 2015 08:30
Sketchy model showing the relationship of White Nancy to the green on the High Street.
Posted 18 Nov 2015 18:42
Delli Cafe closing down, openning in a week but in Maccesfield.. :( that's a loss!
Posted 18 Nov 2015 13:51
The High Line by James Corner- purchased after a great lecture this evening. "Landscape can create a new geology, new marks over time. Neat, tactile & poetic."
Posted 17 Nov 2015 23:50
"their (cities) friction-inducing density ignites imagination and creativity..."
Posted 17 Nov 2015 19:31
Waiting ready for the intimate immensity public space in the city lecture by James Corner
Posted 17 Nov 2015 17:51
Architect Nicholas Feldmeyer re-imagines existing buildings to create dramatic installations, such as this portico weave in London.
Posted 17 Nov 2015 09:15
Happy Mondays morning in the workshop, making a theatre box model of The Hacienda
Posted 16 Nov 2015 10:54
Abakan Rouge III, by Magdalena Abakanowicz, 1970–71 at Whitworth Art Gallery, part of the Art_Textile current exhibition.
Posted 12 Nov 2015 17:06
Nine Bridges Country Club / Shigeru Ban Architects
(Knitting Weaving Wrapping Pressing)
(Knitting Weaving Wrapping Pressing)
Posted 12 Nov 2015 16:58
House in the village of Tishkovo, Podmoskovie
Architects: Alexei Kozyr, Ilya Babak
The house is enclosed in the ‘basket-weave’ façade made of bent pine planks on a concrete frame
Architects: Alexei Kozyr, Ilya Babak
The house is enclosed in the ‘basket-weave’ façade made of bent pine planks on a concrete frame
Posted 7 Nov 2015 17:41
Incredible level of detail captured in this corridor. Made of polyester fabric and metal frame, part of the Going Public: International Art Collectors in Sheffield.
Posted 7 Nov 2015 16:36
Wielandstr. 18 12159 Berlin, 2011. by Korean Installation artist - Do Ho Suh. I can remember experiencing his red negative staircase in the Tate 3/4 years ago, and rediscovered part of his collection at Sheffield's millennium gallery today.
Posted 7 Nov 2015 16:30
Messing around with imagery for the Time + Context symposium poster. Looking a bit sci-fi at this stage, so might simplify...
Posted 6 Nov 2015 00:21
Bollington's picturesque townscape: projection, recession, closed vista, truncation
Posted 5 Nov 2015 23:22
Via Ascanio Sforza, Milan
Drawing the sequence of thresholds experienced from the public street to the private apartment
Drawing the sequence of thresholds experienced from the public street to the private apartment
Posted 5 Nov 2015 08:35
Madonnina (Duomo) and Prada (Fondazione Prada) in Material Dialogue (Gold)
Posted 4 Nov 2015 12:02
Contemporary fluting in Caruso St John's Nottingham Contemporary facade creating a textured and palpable depth.
Posted 4 Nov 2015 11:16
Adam Caruso - "...the market has once again embraced almost all forms of artistic production, and even architecture has emerged as a commodity in its own right, with brand name architects producing logo buildings. I wonder if architecture has the capacity to marshall energy, to imagine an environment that holds the emotions of a place and the significance of human endeavour."
Posted 3 Nov 2015 15:02
“…there is a geography of of place characterized by variety and meaning, and there is a placeless geography, a labyrinth of endless similarities…” (Relph 1976:140)
Posted 3 Nov 2015 02:03
“The Giacometti Variations” by John Baldessari ~ The elegant and well read - Fondazione Prada 22/10/15
Posted 1 Nov 2015 16:57
Quick study of metal cladding panel - Fondazione Prada, Milan 22/10/15
Posted 1 Nov 2015 16:52
Invited in for a cup of tea for creepily sketching outside Richard Murphy's house.
Posted 1 Nov 2015 16:42
Various buildings by Richard Murphy, Edinburgh Castle, and the National Museum of Scotland.
Posted 1 Nov 2015 16:35
Ramsay Macdonald by Jacob Epstein in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.
Posted 1 Nov 2015 16:30
