Architecture & Design — MATILDA BATHURST

Clay Koans

The art of adding life to life.

An article about the LA-based ceramicist, Brad Miller

Architecture & Design, ArtMatilda BathurstDecember 13, 2023

Negotiating freedom at Great Dixter

Right and wrong become absurdist terms, to be uprooted like roses when they have served their purpose.

Originally published in Cereal Magazine

Architecture & DesignMatilda BathurstAugust 13, 2023Garden design

Alex Tieghi-Walker of Tiwa Select

The materials that surround us shape a sense of place – the matter that binds the elsewhere to the here and now.

Originally published in Cereal Magazine

Architecture & Design, ArtMatilda BathurstJuly 3, 2023Los Angeles

Interview with Rainer Judd

“So much of creation is responding to a loss we can’t comprehend. Something happens, something you can never make sense of. And over time you make something with that loss.”

Originally published in Cereal Magazine Volume 16

Art, Architecture, Architecture & DesignMatilda BathurstNovember 16, 2021Cereal, Donald Judd, Rainer Judd

Afterword: a meditation on architectural preservation

The world builds outward as infinite surface – enveloping, inhabiting, ecstatically practicing.

Originally published in Cereal Magazine Volume 21

Art, Architecture, Architecture & DesignMatilda BathurstNovember 12, 2021Richard Neutra, Cereal

Built In at the Neutra VDL House in Los Angeles

Built In is not a fixture. It is seen, it recedes. It is cerebrally complex and sensorially immediate. It clicks.

Originally published in Cereal Magazine

Architecture & DesignMatilda BathurstOctober 24, 2021Cereal, Richard Neutra

The Lovell Health House

Hubris and hope, sudden shadow and bright light

Originally published in Cereal Magazine

Architecture & DesignMatilda BathurstOctober 11, 2021Cereal, Richard Neutra

Features and Interviews for WHY Architecture

Original content produced for the multidisciplinary architecture firm, WHY (LA / NY)

Architecture & Design, ArchitectureMatilda BathurstOctober 10, 2021WHY

Architecture and the Graphic Novel (Copy)

A grid is a framework for breaking the rules.

Originally published by WHY Architecture

Architecture & DesignMatilda BathurstAugust 9, 2021WHY, graphic novels

Casa Luis Barragán: the architecture of solitude

This is a place of constructed horizons. It is an acknowledgment of absolute solitude.

Originally published in Cereal Magazine Volume 15

Art, Architecture, Architecture & DesignMatilda BathurstFebruary 3, 2021Cereal, Luis Barragan

Interview with Rainer Judd

An interview about Donald Judd’s architecture in Marfa, Texas

Originally published in Cereal Volume 16

Architecture & Design, Architecture, ArtMatilda BathurstFebruary 2, 2021Marfa, Donald Judd

Interview with curator Allison Glenn

A conversation with Allison Glenn about the exhibition “Promise, Witness, Remembrance” at the Speed Art Museum in Kentucky,

Originally published by WHY Architecture

Architecture, Art, Architecture & DesignMatilda BathurstJanuary 31, 2021Curating

An interview with garden designer Dan Pearson

For Pearson, the garden at Hillside is a testing ground for his professional projects, a place where he can allow time to play out and reveal the necessity of each intuitive move.

Originally published in Cereal Magazine

Architecture & DesignMatilda BathurstJanuary 25, 2021Cereal, Garden design

When Masks Reveal

MIT students design face masks uncovering personal and collective experiences of the pandemic

Originally published by MIT News

Architecture & DesignMatilda BathurstAugust 1, 2020MIT

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

Moshe Safdie’s nexus of pavilions and ponds doesn’t have the forbidding air of a Tadao Ando tabernacle or a Jean-François Bodin box. The experience is more like joining a dance with a flight of giant beetles, catching a rhythm between magnificence and absurdity.

Originally published in Cereal Magazine

Originally published in Cereal Magazine

Architecture & Design, ArtMatilda BathurstJanuary 12, 2020Cereal, Museum design