Below is a list of entries completed so far. Below that is a tentative list of topics for future entries. There is no specific order in which they will appear so if you’d like to see something sooner rather than later leave a comment and I’ll bump it up the list. You can find other blogs by the same author at lmd:vlugt:dml.
READINGS
Books
- Steen Eiler Rasmussen: Experiencing Architecture
- Manfredo Tafuri: Architecture and Utopia
- Adrian Forty: Words and Buildings
- Marshall Berman: All That Is Solid Melts Into Air
- Roland Barthes: Mythologies
Essays
- Walter Benjamin: The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
- Iain Borden: Stairway Architecture: Transformative Cycles in the Golden Lane
- Alejandro Zaera Polo: The Politics of the Envelope
- Richard Sennett: The Public Realm
- Robin Evans: Mies van der Rohe’s Paradoxical Symmetries
Quotes
- Michel de Certeau’s Everyday
- Reyner Banham and Technology
- Adrian Forty on Design
- Beatriz Colomina and the critic-architect
- Valle & Allen: Rules and Constraints
- Roger Connah on Relativism
- Michael Serres on Stones
- Lars Lerup on Architects & Education
- Andrew Cole and ‘Presentism’
- Yve-Alain Bois and Reyner Banham on drawing
PILLARS
Historians
Theorists
Architects & Artists
CONCEPTS
- Form and Formalism
- On Form: Under the Shadow of Postmodernism
- Architectural Thought or the Theoretical Object
- Thoughts on a critique of interdisciplinarity, subjectivity, & creativity
- Structuralism
PROJECTS
FUTURE ENTRIES
- Robin Kinross
- Henri Ciriani
- Herman Hertzberger
- Neave Brown
- Gerrit Rietveld
- LC van der Vlugt
- Piet Mondrian
- Richard Serra
- Glenn Gould
- Le Corbusier: Villa Savoye
- Chareau: Maison du Verre
- Brown: Alexandra Road
- LCC: Royal Festival Hall
- Prouve: Maison du Peuple
- The Everyday
The Sleep of Rigour 
Nice list. Seriously.
Thanks, I just need to find time to write the entries!
I came across this website while researching Architecten DVVT work. I have enjoyed your personal review of their work. What do you think about their raw (but crafted) use of materials? Many people find it hard to chew, but I believe the aesthetics are slowly shifting.
I like it. I think it’s honest. Or at least they do it in an honest way. The raw aesthetic can come off like a kind of fetish and be too self conscious, but I feel with dvvt it’s about saving cost to allow for more spatial and constructional inventiveness. They also seem to understand contrast very well. Sometimes it’s a wonderfully constructed metal window box added to an old house and other times old materials in a gut renovation. I don’t think it’s easy to do. They have a good eye for it.