Over the next two months, the Drawing Matter editorial team invites short contributions that either bring to the surface the unseen drawings within the Drawing Matter Collections (I. In the Archive) or explore original architectural drawings, created by the author(s) of the contribution, which make visible the unseen (II. In Practice).
Deadline for contributions: Midnight (GMT) on Monday 1 December 2025.
Drawing Matter News and Events
Thank you to all who visited Drawing Matter during the first weekend of Open House Festival. We were delighted that over 500 of you got to see ‘Drawing London’, our exhibition that mapped the city through drawings from the collection for familiar buildings, those that have been lost over time, others that were never built, and radical projects.
The Ninth Drawing Matter Summer School took place at the end of August. Six young architectural tutors led thirty students in a series of workshops based between the Zaha Hadid Foundation, the Drawing Matter Archive Space, and Hauser & Wirth on Savile Row. Thank you to all of our Sponsors, tutors, and students for making this year’s Summer School such a success.
In October, the Zalaffi-Ponis family will open Alberto Ponis’s home studio and run tours of four projects in Sardinia: Casa Magri, Yacht Club Path, Stazzo Pulcheddu, and Studio Yasmin. Find more information here.
Alberto Ponis, Studio di Yasmin, 1971 (dated 1988). Pencil and coloured felt-pens over print base, 363 × 825 mm. DMC 2924.
Drawing Matter Collection
Ove Arup (1895–1988), Sketch for Kingsgate Bridge, Durham, 5, 1963. Felt pen on tracing paper, 383 × 575 mm. DMC 2773.8.
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Find an archive of the building projects and interventions at Shatwell Farm, Somerset, Drawing Matter’s home from 2014 – 2024, here.
The Shatwell Valley. Photos: Sue Barr.
The Drawing Matter Archive at Shatwell Farm and grain silos.
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