Padraic Mittag-McNaught

Has a background in Sculpture & Printmaking from St. Olaf College (B.A. 2020), and is currently a Masters of Architecture I Candidate at Yale School of Architure (M.Arch I 2025). Through architecture, I explore ideas of urbanity, with an unwavering belief in the city. 

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WordsOn the Great Flattening: Modernism










Preface: Drawing In Situ
2023 Fall - Ongoing










2023 Summer   
If we listen closely to twentieth-century writers and thinkers about modernity and compare them to those of a century ago, we will find a radical flattening of perspective and shrinkage of imaginative range. Our nineteenth-century thinkers were simultaneously enthusiasts and enemies of modern life, wrestling inexhaustibly with its ambiguities and contradictions; their self-ironies and inner tensions were a primary source of their creative power. Their twentieth-century successors have lurched far more toward rigid polarities and flat totalizations. Modernity is either embraced with a blind and uncritical enthusiasm, or else condemned with a neo-Olympian remoteness and contempt; in either case, it is conceived as a closed monolith.

    Marshall Breman, All That is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity, 1982


Drawing is the natural language of architecture… all language, to fulfill its object must be in perfect harmony with the ideas of which it is to be the expression. Architecture, being essentially simple, enemy of everything without use, of all affectation, the type of drawing used must be free of every kind of difficulty, pretention and superfluity; then it will contribute singularly to the speed and ease of studying it and to the development of ideas... 

    J. N. L. Durand, Précis des Leçons d’Architecture vol. 1, 32