Architect: Mario Asprucci

Notes on Urban Form
02.06.2025

Notes on Urban Form02.06.2025

– Editors and Ingrid Schroder

I believe it was in February 2024, at some noisy event, that I agreed to deliver a handful of seminars to AA and LSE students around the topic of urban form. Niall had tempted me with the provision of fifty or so drawings from the archive, but I could take… Read More

DMC theoretical & imaginary urban form

Learning From Machine Learning, on designer trees and architectural historiographies of the digital
11.07.2023

Learning From Machine Learning, on designer trees and architectural historiographies of the digital11.07.2023

– Sylvia Lavin

What does it mean for scholars to collaborate with contemporary knowledge machines? In this article, Sylvia Lavin reflects on the failures, successes, and potentialities of a machine learning tool designed to identify trees in architectural drawings. This project, which she initiated in 2022, was undertaken by Princeton University and the… Read More

plan theoretical & imaginary DMC sketch

A Civic Utopia Exhibition
08.10.2016

A Civic Utopia Exhibition08.10.2016

A Civic Utopia: Architecture and the City in France 1765-1837 was curated by Nicholas Olsberg and Basile Baudez, and organised by Drawing Matter Trust in collaboration with The Courtauld Gallery as part of Somerset House’s celebration of the 500th anniversary of Thomas More’s Utopia. The exhibition considered the place of architecture… Read More

exhibition DMC garden plan health & leisure section urban form elevation public space presentation theatre civic & municipal interior culture a civic utopia (exhibition)