Architect: Gabriel Pierre Martin Dumont
Alternative Histories: Veldwerk Architecten on Gabriel Pierre Martin Dumont
31 July 2019
Alternative Histories: Veldwerk Architecten on Gabriel Pierre Martin Dumont31 July 2019
Paper Mountain Like the models it displays, the paper mountain exhibition scenography finds its origins in a historic drawing from the Drawing Matter archive. Gabriel Dumont’s section of a theatre auditorium and balcony seating, drawn c.1770, proposes a structure that holds the audience as if they were godly statues of a stacked temple, suspended… Read More
Gabriel Pierre Martin Dumont
7 January 2018
Gabriel Pierre Martin Dumont7 January 2018
This large and exquisite drawing by Gabriel Pierre Martin Dumont represents a garden design in the form of the plan of St Peter’s Basilica and Piazza by Bernini. Serried ranks of trees rather than stone walls and columns are used to marshal a vast landscape into a perfect emblem of… Read More
Trees Move In
22 October 2020
Trees Move In22 October 2020
By Sylvia Lavin
The following text is the second of a series of four essays on trees in architectural drawings by Sylvia Lavin. The essays were first published in Log 49 (Summer 2020). Drawing Matter would like to thank the author and the journal’s editors for allowing us to reproduce the essays on… Read More
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