THE LIMN

Art, Architecture, Words: A Repository

by Architectural Graduate Sophie Hamer.

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SKETCH LIFE

November 18, 2010 by Sophie Hamer

History of Masculinity, Marc Bauer.


November 18, 2010 /Sophie Hamer
body, drawing, pencil, space
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SERENADE #7

November 18, 2010 by Sophie Hamer



decca records via butitdoesfloat.com
November 18, 2010 /Sophie Hamer
music
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DIAGRAMMING A FOLD

November 18, 2010 by Sophie Hamer
Diagramming a Fold, Liz Jaff
November 18, 2010 /Sophie Hamer
drawing, fold
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CULTURE IN CONCRETE

November 18, 2010 by Sophie Hamer
Culture in Concrete: Art and the reimagination of the Los Angeles river as Civic Space
John C. Arroyo
MIT
November 18, 2010 /Sophie Hamer
Art, culture, river, thesis
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POSSIBILITY OF THE STAIRWAY

November 18, 2010 by Sophie Hamer
On the Architectural Possibilities of a Stairway (stariway)
via findingslav
November 18, 2010 /Sophie Hamer
architecture, bartlett, drawing, possible, student projects, thesis
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THE CHAIR & THE AUTHOR

November 14, 2010 by Sophie Hamer
Maholy-Nagy Chairs

The Author as Producer - Walter Benjamin - New Left review 1970

November 14, 2010 /Sophie Hamer
authorship, chair, photo, producer, reviews, walter benjamin
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IT'S CRITICAL

November 13, 2010 by Sophie Hamer
http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/critical-condition.html
November 13, 2010 /Sophie Hamer
criticism
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DESIGN DESIRES

November 13, 2010 by Sophie Hamer
summer sleeping summer dreaming
November 13, 2010 /Sophie Hamer
architecture, desire, summer
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PHOTOTROPIC

November 13, 2010 by Sophie Hamer

dwbowden
November 13, 2010 /Sophie Hamer
drawing, machine, sculpture
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ELIOT

November 13, 2010 by Sophie Hamer
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/t-s--eliot-and-the-demise-of-the-literary-culture-15564
November 13, 2010 /Sophie Hamer
culture, poetry
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HOW TO MOURN

November 13, 2010 by Sophie Hamer
How to Mourn
- A review of Barthes' beautiful meditation on the loss of his mother entitled 'Mourning Diary'

See also:

Barthes and Utopia: 

space, travel, writing

and

A lover's Discourse: Fragments


http://notearama.blogspot.com/2010/10/notes-on-lovers-discourse.html
November 13, 2010 /Sophie Hamer
Discourse, Love, Mourning, Roland Barthes, Semiotics, Structuralism, reviews, space, writing
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ACCOUNTABILITY AFTER BAKHTIN

November 13, 2010 by Sophie Hamer
http://www.victoria.ac.nz/sacl/staff/judy-brown.aspx
November 13, 2010 /Sophie Hamer
agency, authorship
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THE THINGS WE FIND

November 13, 2010 by Sophie Hamer
http://findingslav.blogspot.com/
November 13, 2010 /Sophie Hamer
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FLOATING POWER

November 10, 2010 by Sophie Hamer
Floating power Stations in russia!



via The Atlantic
November 10, 2010 /Sophie Hamer
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PERFECT DESPERATION

November 07, 2010 by Sophie Hamer


The reforestation of Thames Estuary. Via bldblog

One of my favourite (hand drawn) student projects of the year;
Tom Noonan (Ba
rtlett) 
November 07, 2010 /Sophie Hamer
drawing, student projects
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SECTIONAL SPHERES

November 01, 2010 by Sophie Hamer
November 01, 2010 /Sophie Hamer
colour, drawing, pencil, personal, school, space, student projects
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VEZELAY

October 19, 2010 by Sophie Hamer
My first Architectural love.
October 19, 2010 /Sophie Hamer
architecture, france
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October 18, 2010 by Sophie Hamer
Architecture Kids I Like

http://www.thomashillier.co.uk/

http://www.pascalbronner.com/

http://www.yaojenchuang.com/

http://www.studiojonandnina.com/
October 18, 2010 /Sophie Hamer
architecture, student projects
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October 18, 2010 by Sophie Hamer
http://thediagram.com/10_1/nimes.html
October 18, 2010 /Sophie Hamer
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ZONDER TITEL

October 15, 2010 by Sophie Hamer
Haunting. ageless european city scapes by the incredible Mirjam Hagoort.
October 15, 2010 /Sophie Hamer
drawing, photo
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View fullsize Louvre-Lens.
July 2018.

The three years since I took the train from Paris to Lens to visit this incredible space have all but dissolved. Time does that, dissipating, passing through your fingers like sand, until suddenly you can count it by the spad
View fullsize Sailors Grave, Coromandel 
June 2021 

On the shortest day of the year in the Southern Hemisphere, it was magic to receive photos of the sunshine completely filling this cedar-lined outdoor room.

The builder of this new home, a good friend of mine,
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June 2021

It is a late start to the season this year, but summer is finally here, and the mountain passes (and dead end roads) are open for exploring. Lac de Derborence surprised me in all the best ways, including finding that perh
View fullsize Lac de Moiry 
October 2019.

Each evening when the shadows get long and the sunlight turns golden, I am surprised by how late the light stays. Spring has been all grey skies and raindrops this year - a far cry from last years month of May, when all I
View fullsize Kunsthaus Erweiterung
David Chipperfield Architects

A visit to an as-yet-unoccupied gallery
Zurich,  May 2021

Folded and fluted brass lines each threshold between rooms. In the empty building, with no things to see,  the focus is on the framing ele
View fullsize Baloise Park C, Valerio Olgiati. 
Basel, April 2021. 

A tour of the perimeter, in spring

The expressed edges of the floorplates reach out to become the facade, thin slices of concrete balancing on the array of pointed columns. There is something de
View fullsize Lac de Moiry, looking across to the Pointes de Mourti above the Moiry glacier beyond. 

We rode from Sierre, up the switchbacks of Val d’Anniviers and up the valley through Grimentz. It was mid-October and the colours were beginning to turn, re
View fullsize Overlooking one of the less familiar sides of Christ & Gantenbein’s Kunstmuseum Basel Neubau, where a tapered courtyard descends to the museum storage zones below. 

Basel, March 2020.
View fullsize Swiss National Museum by Christ & Gantenbein. 
Zürich, August 2019.
View fullsize Lago del Sambuco, October 2019. 

En route to Lago del Narèt at the top of the raw and immense Vallemaggia, a steep valley of stone grottos, waterfalls and mountain pastures that climbs up into the alps behind Locarno, Ticino.
 
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Sophie Hamer 2015-2020