All articles by Niall Hobhouse
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ReviewWork on Paper: The changing metropolis 1940s — 1980s
Part III in this selection of drawings that chronicle the design strategies that cities used to develop the urban landscape
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ReviewWork on Paper: The changing metropolis 1900 — 1930s
Part II in this selection of drawings that chronicle the design strategies that cities used to develop the urban landscape
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ReviewWork on Paper: The changing metropolis 1815 — 1900
This selection of drawings chronicles the design strategies that cities used to develop the urban landscape
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ReviewWork on Paper: Future Scenarios part III
The last in our new series on the role of drawing in architecture explores the urbanism of the future
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ReviewWork on Paper: Future Scenarios part II
The second in our latest series on the role of drawing in architecture looks at the building site and the ruin
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ReviewWork on Paper: Future Scenarios part I
The role of drawing in architecture: Historian Nicholas Olsberg and critic Niall Hobhouse look at the way architects have employed drawing to imagine realities far removed from their own
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ReviewWork on Paper, part IV: Displaced persons
This week BD resumes its series addressing the role of drawing in architecture by considering the role of the human figure in architectural representations.
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ReviewWork on paper, part III: Architectural anxiety
This essay is the third in a series on the drawing as itself the product of architectural practice
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ReviewWork on Paper, part II: Simplification
The second in a series examining the role of drawing in architecture.
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BlogsQuestions of representation in architecture
Reinier de Graaf failed to show but the conference was redeemed by clever commentaries from scholars with something real to say
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ReviewWork on Paper, part I: Landscape situations
The first in a new series examining the role of drawing in architecture.
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ReviewJames Stirling’s Notes from the Archive
Did James Stirling view drawing as more important than building?
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ReviewThe Museum of the Order of St John
This tiny London museum for the knights of St John puts bigger spaces to shame
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ReviewThe AA’s First Works exhibition takes us back to the future
A survey of early projects by stellar architects is the gospel according to the AA, says Niall Hobhouse
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Building StudyCultures successfully crossed at Oxford’s Ashmolean
Rick Mather’s reinvention of Oxford’s Ashmolean has written a dynamic new chapter in the history of museums
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Building StudyKim Wilkie gets down to earth
Landscape architect Kim Wilkie Associates’ monumental 7m excavation called Orpheus brings both historic continuity and unexpectedness to the grounds of Boughton House in Northamptonshire
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ReviewBarbican’s nature ramble
Radical Nature is too diffuse and backward-looking to give a coherent view of ‘eco’ art