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In the Archive: New and Found 3
03.05.2024
In the Archive: New and Found 303.05.2024
– Editors
Click on drawings to move and enlarge. The New and Found series is an informal miscellany, which allows us to show some recent acquisitions together with material in the archive…
In the Archive: Laugier, Eisen, Boulogne, Petitot, Percier, Dumont and Hadid
22.03.2022
In the Archive: Laugier, Eisen, Boulogne, Petitot, Percier, Dumont and Hadid22.03.2022
Click on drawings to move and enlarge. In this series, Drawing Matter invites visitors to write about material in the archive or the libraries at Shatwell that they have viewed…
In the Archive: OMA, Neutelings, Hejduk, Gowan
01.03.2020
In the Archive: OMA, Neutelings, Hejduk, Gowan01.03.2020
– Richard Hall and Emma Rutherford
Click on drawings to move and enlarge (fullscreen version). In this series, Drawing Matter invites visitors to write about material in the archive or the libraries at Shatwell that they…
In the Archive: Petit, Lebas, Fontaine, Le Corbusier and Kolář
04.10.2022
In the Archive: Petit, Lebas, Fontaine, Le Corbusier and Kolář04.10.2022
Click on drawings to move and enlarge. In this series, Drawing Matter invites visitors to write about material in the archive or the libraries at Shatwell that they have viewed…
In the Archive
25.05.2021
In the Archive25.05.2021
…roughly to scale, In the Archive allows you to better understand the physical aspects of the drawings. We suggest that you use In the Archive’s thematically curated selections of drawings as a…
In the Archive: New and Found 2
12.01.2022
In the Archive: New and Found 212.01.2022
– Editors
Click on drawings to move and enlarge. The New and Found series is an informal miscellany, which allows us to show some recent acquisitions together with material in the archive…
In the Archive: New and Found
01.12.2021
In the Archive: New and Found01.12.2021
– Editors
Click on drawings to move and enlarge. The New and Found series is an informal miscellany, which allows us to show some recent acquisitions together with material in the archive…
In the Archive: de la Fuente, Unknown, OMA, Ellwood and Ponis
15.02.2023
In the Archive: de la Fuente, Unknown, OMA, Ellwood and Ponis15.02.2023
Click on drawings to move and enlarge. In this series, Drawing Matter invites visitors to write about material in the archive or the libraries at Shatwell that they have viewed…
In the Archive: Maristella Casciato – 4 June 2025 @ 18.30
13.05.2025
In the Archive: Maristella Casciato – 4 June 2025 @ 18.3013.05.2025
Wednesday 4 June 2025 18.30 – 20.00 Doors open at 18.15 8 Smart’s Place, London, WC2B 5LW Join us for the first ‘In the Archive’ evening at Drawing Matter with…
In the Archive: New and Found 4
26.07.2024
In the Archive: New and Found 426.07.2024
– Editors
Click on drawings to move. The New and Found series is an informal miscellany, which allows us to show some recent acquisitions together with material in the archive or the…
In the Archive: Riefenstahl, Hitler, Ebhardt, Sironi, Brasini
04.11.2024
In the Archive: Riefenstahl, Hitler, Ebhardt, Sironi, Brasini04.11.2024
…are reminded that archives are not neutral places, they are to be dissected and analysed by researchers. Having this in mind, we looked at our archive’s related materials, which holds…
Historic England Image Archive
23.01.2023
Historic England Image Archive23.01.2023
…series of drawings that they had studied or made. The Historic England Archive is a repository of many smaller archives folded into one, but in its digital, searchable guise it…
Archive Politics
21.04.2023
Archive Politics21.04.2023
– Pedro Baía and Carlos Machado e Moura
…team, in the Drawing Matter archive while curating material for ‘The Hidden Horizontal: Cornices in Art and Architecture’ at the Graphische Sammlung ETH Zürich. 2. Dead archive / living archive …
Where to Find a Drawing of a Swiss Gold Vault
28.02.2024
Where to Find a Drawing of a Swiss Gold Vault28.02.2024
…archives of architects, similarly for reasons of confidentiality.[4] This selective curation of both disciplinary-mandated archives questions their continued relevance. The current shifting gaze in architectural history, away from single authorship towards…
8 Smart’s Place: Making Sense
24.02.2025
8 Smart’s Place: Making Sense24.02.2025
…blankets (turned curtains) from Shatwell Farm are used to softly separate the entrance from the archive, the office from the archive, and the kitchen from the archive. The same cabinet…
Conjunction and Incongruity
01.09.2018
Conjunction and Incongruity01.09.2018
…foreground of The Archive by Hugh Strange Architects, on show during Drawing Matter Open Day in The Archive, by Hugh Strange Architects, 2012. Shatwell Farm, Drawing Matter. The Archive interior…
Letter of Authorisation to Discuss Late Ottoman Archive Drawings as Operational Images
06.02.2023
Letter of Authorisation to Discuss Late Ottoman Archive Drawings as Operational Images06.02.2023
– Ecem Arslanay and Mina Gürsel Tabanlıoğlu
…T.R. Directorate of State Archives, Ottoman Archives, Topkapı Palace Museum Archive Record (TS.MA.e), Folder no: 654, File no: 21. Although their intentions seem reasonable, the production methods aren’t. Relying on…
In the Archive: Abattoirs, Boucheries, and Slaughterhouses
31.03.2025
In the Archive: Abattoirs, Boucheries, and Slaughterhouses31.03.2025
Click on drawings to move and enlarge. As architectural typologies, abattoirs, boucheries, and slaughterhouses embody the civilising of animal slaughter; serving as concrete expressions of the culture of animal consumption….
Design Starts: Loughborough School of Architecture at Shatwell Farm
03.05.2022
Design Starts: Loughborough School of Architecture at Shatwell Farm03.05.2022
…with enough give and bend so that happenstance, coincidence, and adventure would be encouraged within the archive. While working into a selection of survey drawings from the archive that we…
Visit Shatwell Farm and the Archive
15.09.2020
Visit Shatwell Farm and the Archive15.09.2020
…based on the drawings in the archive. The cost of these visits helps fund the student scholarships at our annual Architectural Drawing Summer School. Within the archive, we like to limit…
Reflections on my Internship
27.04.2022
Reflections on my Internship27.04.2022
…activities regularly pass between them. There are drawings and models that are held in the office and ordinary objects held in the archive. In a way, the archive is an…
In the Archive: Alejandro Carrasco Hidalgo
05.02.2024
In the Archive: Alejandro Carrasco Hidalgo05.02.2024
– Alejandro Carrasco Hidalgo
In this series, Drawing Matter invites visitors to write about material in the archive or the libraries at Shatwell that they have viewed as part of their research. During the…
in the archive (project)