Iain Boyd Whyte writes about the Drawing Matter drawings from the Viennese School (Drawing: Otto Wagner, Design for Berlin Cathedral, Germany, 1867. DMC 2063).
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Deadline for contributions: Midnight (GMT) on Monday 1 December 2025.
Drawing Matter News and Events
Five works from the Drawing Matter Collection are included in the exhibition Crude Hints (Towards), curated by Charlotte Edey at Frieze, No. 9 Cork Street (28 November – 13 December 2025).
Drawings by Álvaro Siza from the Drawing Matter Collection are reproduced in the exhibition Lost Causes, curated by João Manuel Miranda and Tiago Antero at Fundação Marques da Silva (Porto) (21 November 2025 – 21 February 2026)
Thank you to everyone who joined us for the exhibition Tony Fretton: Everything I Saw Became Important on 8 & 9 November. A recording of the conversation between Tony Fretton and Benjamin Machin is now available to watch here.
More information about the exhibition can be found here.
Tomas Schmit’s two new ways to draw a circle (1971) [DMC 2230] is featured on the cover of the November issue of The Architectural Review, dedicated to the AR‘s Emerging Architects awards.
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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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