About
Drawing Matter explores the role of drawing in architectural thought and practice through workshops for students and practitioners, exhibitions and loans, publications and public events. In Autumn 2024, we moved from Shatwell Farm, Somerset, and are now based in Smart’s Place, Central London.
Central to our activities is the Drawing Matter Collection of many-thousand drawings, which has been assembled over 25 years and dates from the 16th Century to the present, with a particular focus on exploring the processes of architectural design and production.
The collection is digitally catalogued for researchers, students and practitioners. Those with specific research interests are encouraged to organise a visit in person—the drawings themselves really need to be seen to be read. Register for catalogue access.
Texts
The Drawing Matter website is a rapidly growing repository of more than 1200 new and historical texts on architecture and drawing. Many directly address material in the collection; we also publish writing on drawings and objects in archives elsewhere, or made by practitioners working today. We enjoy looking beyond the architectural canon.
Our readers often suggest that we should reprint texts on architectural drawing that can add to the richness of the repository for practitioners, students and scholars working today.
The editors welcome proposals in different formats and a wide range of voices.
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Contact
Editorial – editors@drawingmatter.org
Collection – collection@drawingmatter.org
Workshops – workshops@drawingmatter.org
Journal – journal@drawingmatter.org
Drawing Matter Trust, 8 Smart’s Place, London, WC2B 5LW
Reg. Charity 264878
Team
Jesper Authen, Jackie Brooks, Martha Cruz, Susie Dowding, Rosie Ellison-Balaam, Orinta Fowler, Niall Hobhouse, Kendra Matchett, Maria Mitsoula, Matt Page, Sophie Wehtje.
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