Category: Drawing Matter archive: research & collecting
In the Archive: Laugier, Eisen, Boulogne, Petitot, Percier, Dumont, Hadid
22 March 2022
In the Archive: Laugier, Eisen, Boulogne, Petitot, Percier, Dumont, Hadid22 March 2022
Click on drawings to move, enlarge, and identify. On a crisp January morning I made my way to York railway station to visit the Drawing Matter collection. This research trip is more than a year overdue, delayed by the global Covid-19 pandemic, and I am now already in the third… Read More
The Edge of Architecture: Cornices in the Drawing Matter collection
21 February 2022
The Edge of Architecture: Cornices in the Drawing Matter collection21 February 2022
By Editors
The following group of drawings are presented here as additional illustrations to Maarten Delbeke’s essay The Cornice: The Edge of Architecture.
In the Archive: New and Found 2
12 January 2022
In the Archive: New and Found 212 January 2022
By Editors
Click on drawings to move, enlarge, and identify. 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 libraries at Shatwell that you may not have seen before. New Julia Bloomfield recalls a dinner with… Read More
Stories from Architecture: Behind the Lines at Drawing Matter
13 December 2021
Stories from Architecture: Behind the Lines at Drawing Matter13 December 2021
By Adrian Forty, Niall Hobhouse and Philippa Lewis
This film was recorded in the Drawing Matter archive on the afternoon of Friday 28 November. It records a conversation between Philippa Lewis, Adrian Forty and Niall Hobhouse, about some of the drawings behind Philippa’s new book, Stories from Architecture: Behind the Lines at Drawing Matter (2021). The film was… Read More
In the Archive: New and Found
1 December 2021
In the Archive: New and Found1 December 2021
By Editors
Click on drawings to move, enlarge, and identify. 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 libraries at Shatwell that you may not have seen before. New On the digital planchest this time… Read More
Leicester Engineering Building: Under Construction
8 July 2021
Leicester Engineering Building: Under Construction8 July 2021
By James Gowan
This is the first of three posts publishing material found in the James Gowan archive, now part of the Drawing Matter Collection. The second post will be a companion to this one, and reproduces photographs of the completed Engineering Building; the third assembles archival material relating to the Isle of… Read More
Eric Gill On Designing War Graves (1919)
11 May 2021
Eric Gill On Designing War Graves (1919)11 May 2021
By Eric Gill
Gentlemen, Sir Frederic Kenyon’s report to the Imperial War Graves Commission calls for public protest. [1] We are all aware that to be effective such protest must come from the millions of men and women whose sons and husbands and fathers are buried in foreign lands, rather than from any… Read More
Cedric Price: Westal Market Stall Prototypes
1 March 2021
Cedric Price: Westal Market Stall Prototypes1 March 2021
Zahalternative Histories: O’Donnell + Tuomey on Zaha Hadid
19 January 2021
Zahalternative Histories: O’Donnell + Tuomey on Zaha Hadid19 January 2021
By John Tuomey
From a sheet of sketches by Zaha Hadid to rock formations at Ines Meáin and St Brigid’s Well, in this short film John Tuomey explains the thinking behind O’Donnell + Tuomey’s Alternative Histories model. This commentary is the first in a series organised by the Irish Architectural Archive. The series,… Read More
Christmas Reading List 2020
22 December 2020
Christmas Reading List 202022 December 2020
By Editors
At the end of this strange and complicated year, the Drawing Matter editors have invited the winners of our Writing Prize to help us reflect on the new writing published on drawingmatter.org since January 2020. We gave them the challenge of choosing just twelve of the 150 texts that we’ve published… Read More
Stirling & Gowan: The Isle of Wight House
21 July 2021
Stirling & Gowan: The Isle of Wight House21 July 2021
By James Gowan, J. M. Richards, Laurent Stalder, James Stirling and Ellis Woodman
This first impetus for this article was provided by Laurent Stalder’s discussion of the sectional perspective drawing for the Isle of Wight house, reproduced here, which lead us to J. M. Richards’ seminal essay, and then onward through the literature. In addition, we asked the Deutsches Architekturmuseum and the Canadian… Read More
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