JOHNSTON
MARKLEE

JOHNSTON
MARKLEE

JOHNSTON MARKLEE

JOHNSTON MARKLEE

JOHNSTON MARKLEE

EDITOR: BENJAMIN WILKE

The ‘nothing’ is the white silhouette that remains among the contextual queues and contexts that define it.

The ‘nothing’ is the white silhouette that remains among the contextual queues and contexts that define it.

The ‘nothing’ is the white silhouette that remains among the contextual queues and contexts that define it.

The ‘nothing’ is the white silhouette that remains among the contextual queues and contexts that define it.

The ‘nothing’ is the white silhouette that remains among the contextual queues and contexts that define it.

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'Source Books in Architecture No. 15: Johnston Marklee' includes conversations with the architects and documentation of a range of built and unbuilt works. As the Baumer Visiting Professors at The Ohio State University, Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee engage with students at the school in conversations that range from developing a critical practice to idea formation with respect to projects to the pragmatics of working in the field or architecture today. Documentation of work includes drawings, diagrams, photos, and models.

'Source Books in Architecture' is a product of the Herbert Baumer seminars, a series of interactions between students and seminal practitioners at the Knowlton School at The Ohio State University. Following a significant amount of research, students lead discussions that encourage the architects to reveal their architectural motivations and techniques.

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I found the work of Johnston Marklee odd at first. I couldn’t identify a consistent or recognizable signature. There was some repetition to motifs and forms, but the work felt too flexible and varied to signal a constant disciplinary project. Of course, I was comparing Johnston Marklee to other architects in this publication series, most of whom have a manner of form-making or representation—or some other sine qua non—that marks an identity that has formed, maintained, and shifted. I couldn’t find the constant that provided a path to understanding this particular body of work. But there was one thing that was consistent: the collages. Every Johnston Marklee project has a collage that provides a shorthand representation of that project and that uses strategies of both nothing and everything to do its job.

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 “This blankness that marks the presence of the project is devoid of resolution or detail except for what the silhouette itself gives away.” 

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Selected Works

Drawing CodesEXPERIMENTAL PROTOCOLS OF ARCHITECTURAL REPRESENTATION

Tatiana Bilbao EstudioBenjamin Wilke

WAY BEYOND BIGNESSProject type

Designing the Computational Image, Imagining Computational DesignDaniel Cardoso Llach and Theodora Vardouli

Silt Sand SlurryRob Holmes, Brett Milligan, and Gena Wirth

NUCLEAR CHRONICLESDESIGN RESEARCH ON THE LANDSCAPES OF THE US NUCLEAR HIGHWAY

Environmental Activism by DesignColeman Coker, Sarah Gamble, Katie Swenson , and Thomas Fisher

Johnston MarkleeBenjamin Wilke

DRAWING CODESEXPERIMENTAL PROTOCOLS OF ARCHITECTURAL REPRESENTATION

Concrete ApproximationsOliver Ottevaere

Project ArchiveNamrata Dhore, Sofie Kusaba, and Christina Truwit

CITIES OF REPETITIONHONG KONG’S PRIVATE HOUSING ESTATES

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Asia - Singapore & China
Tel: +(65) 9068-1860
Tel: +(86) 755-84556863

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USA - San Francisco Bay Area
Tel: +1(415) 883-3300
USA - New York
Tel: +1(646) 322-2466
Asia - Singapore & China
Tel: +(65) 9068-1860
Tel: +(86) 755-84556863

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