Thinking Through Drawing
John Hill
20. February 2024
Photo: Screenshot from “Domestic Monument: Amancio Williams selected by Pezo von Ellrichshausen” on YouTube
Architects Mauricio Pezo and Sofia von Ellrichshausen of Chile's Pezo von Ellrichshausen speak about the drawings of Argentine architect Amancio Williams as they browse his archive at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, part of the third and last installment in the CCA's Out of the Box series.
In their contribution to the Out of the Box series, Pezo and von Ellrichshausen explore the domestic monumentality present in Williams’s work, focusing on the technical drawings and other illustrations of two key projects: Casa sobre el Arroyo (House on the river) and Casa Desmarás.
See also: Casa sobre el Arroyo recently won the 2024 World Monuments Fund/Knoll Modernism Prize.
Watch architects Pezo and von Ellrichshausen speak about their impressions and interpretations of Williams's projects and drawings, and explain how the work relates to their own projects: