Category: on their own work
Protected: Curtains
20.02.2025
Protected: Curtains20.02.2025
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Protected: DMJ – A Will to the City
14.02.2025
Protected: DMJ – A Will to the City14.02.2025
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Lisson 1 + 2
07.02.2025
Lisson 1 + 207.02.2025
LISSON GALLERY 1, 1986. Bell Street, London NW1 Tony Fretton, Michael Fieldman, Ruth Aureole Stuart. We were invited to discuss a new building for the Lisson Gallery. Meetings took place in the office of their existing premises, that the Director and his colleagues shared. To reach it you walked in… Read More
Protected: On Axonometric Drawing
04.02.2025
Protected: On Axonometric Drawing04.02.2025
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The Grandest Form: Architects on Instruction-Based Art
24.01.2025
The Grandest Form: Architects on Instruction-Based Art24.01.2025
The drawing that we selected for this presentation is, in a way, a limiting of information. We’ve extracted everything but the mechanical systems—the hidden, technical layers in our projects. By focusing only on these systems, we find clues to the instructions and the technical requirements that were handed to us… Read More
Drawing as Travelogue
27.12.2024
Drawing as Travelogue27.12.2024
– Beth George and Emerald Wise
This is a rumination on memory, perceived worlds, and on drawing as embodied experience and shared conversation. While visiting Drawing Matter, we attended to and later remembered spaces both drawn and physical. Produced on the floor of a roof terrace in Sicily, we moved over the drawn field as a… Read More
Jéremie Engler and Lalie Porteret
19.12.2024
Jéremie Engler and Lalie Porteret19.12.2024
Drawing Matter’s central meadow is enclosed by both built spaces and the topography, selected drawn fragments will highlight this specificity. We use 2 methods: triangulation to construct the enclosure, and successive levels points to understand the topography. The first forms the plane of the field, the second its depth. The… Read More
Léo Perrin and Polina Holub
19.12.2024
Léo Perrin and Polina Holub19.12.2024
Measuring Shatwell’s tempo Using threads of strings, our own bodies In this repetitive measured dance, profiles arise The more practice, the more accurate the hands get Four of them follow the same choreography Surveying piano piano the sheet Some be good, others not, only the paper knows The harvest of… Read More
Léa Guillotin and Michael Becker
19.12.2024
Léa Guillotin and Michael Becker19.12.2024
At Shatwell Farm, the adventure began with a meticulous task: measuring, surveying, surveying… Under changing skies, with gale-force winds, sudden downpours and the occasional ray of sunshine, we stood outside with my comrade Michael and our sketchbooks, loose leaf and mechanical pencils in hand, ready to capture the site. It… Read More
Christelle Blanco and Kasia Stachnio
19.12.2024
Christelle Blanco and Kasia Stachnio19.12.2024
All of us got to build a 4 meters tall pyramid out of small wooden sticks. We used this structure as a starting point for our drawing. As we visited the site, we were struck by the arch, that was very conveniently right in front of our sculpture. Thus we… Read More
James Haynes and Sophie Sills
19.12.2024
James Haynes and Sophie Sills19.12.2024
Nestled in a terrain more familiar with cows than people sits a farm, an archive, a collection of buildings with ambiguous use. Upon arriving, two capture a fleeting moment of attention, drawing our eyes through their axial alignment. The first, the work of architect Hugh Strange, acts as our ‘entry’,… Read More
Emilie Hamel and Edouard Heinkel
19.12.2024
Emilie Hamel and Edouard Heinkel19.12.2024
Dessiner et mesurer un site, c’est faire des aller-retours entre sa table de dessin improvisé et l’objet qu’on mesure. Le dessin est beaucoup plus immédiat, intuitif et physique qu’un dessin fait à un bureau. On est aussi plus dépendant de ce qui se passe sur le site : s’il pleut,… Read More
Peris+Toral Arquitectes: Modulus Matrix
13.12.2024
Peris+Toral Arquitectes: Modulus Matrix13.12.2024
‘We were asked for one image that illustrated our thinking. The half that’s in white shows the final floor plan. The black shows the process, superimposing all the possibilities as we developed the project, exploring different options until the final crystallised version.’ Peris+Toral Arquitectes have been awarded the RIBA International… Read More
Fuglsang Kunstmuseum: Facts and Interpretation in Staging a Museum
11.11.2024
Fuglsang Kunstmuseum: Facts and Interpretation in Staging a Museum11.11.2024
The following text was first published in OASE #111: Staging the Museum (2022). Drawing Matter would like to thank Tony Fretton and the issue’s editors Aslı Çiçek, Jantje Engels, and Maarten Liefooghe, for allowing us to reproduce the text. Purchase a copy of OASE #111 here. Fuglsang Kunstmuseum is located on the… Read More
OMA: Rem Koolhaas—Initiative
31.10.2024
OMA: Rem Koolhaas—Initiative31.10.2024
This is the sixth and final post, in the series titled OMA CONVERSATIONS. The series is the result of a collaboration between Drawing Matter and architect Richard Hall who, over the past two years, has conducted twenty-three in-depth conversations with key collaborators working with OMA during its formative years. Drawing… Read More
Drawing Without Erasing
21.10.2024
Drawing Without Erasing21.10.2024
The following text first appeared in Drawing without Erasing and Other Essays, by Flores & Prats (Barcelona: Puente editores, 2023), 16-23. Not so long ago, a journalist interviewed us for the British magazine Architecture Today, and the resulting article was called ‘Dirty Drawings’. This suggestive title might bring to mind a… Read More
OMA: Collaborators—Allies
30.09.2024
OMA: Collaborators—Allies30.09.2024
This is the fifth post, in a series of six, titled OMA CONVERSATIONS. The series is the result of a collaboration between Drawing Matter and architect Richard Hall who, over the past two years, has conducted twenty-three in-depth conversations with key collaborators working with OMA during its formative years. Drawing… Read More
Suddenly This View
05.09.2024
Suddenly This View05.09.2024
Suddenly This View begun as a series of architectural models and evolved into a collection of model photography. It is an ongoing project investigating everyday spaces, exploring how architectural models and their derivative creations can be used to convey spatial narratives. The subjects of Suddenly This View are everyday buildings… Read More
OMA: Big Competitions—Reorienting the Modern Project
29.08.2024
OMA: Big Competitions—Reorienting the Modern Project29.08.2024
This is the fourth post, in a series of six, titled OMA CONVERSATIONS. The series is the result of a collaboration between Drawing Matter and architect Richard Hall who, over the past two years, has conducted twenty-three in-depth conversations with key collaborators working with OMA during its formative years. Drawing… Read More
OMA: Rotterdam—Child’s Crusade
28.06.2024
OMA: Rotterdam—Child’s Crusade28.06.2024
This is the third post, in a series of six, titled OMA CONVERSATIONS. The series is the result of a collaboration between Drawing Matter and architect Richard Hall who, over the past two years, has conducted twenty-three in-depth conversations with key collaborators working with OMA during its formative years. Drawing… Read More
The GSD Sketching Group and the Call for Sketchbooks Exhibition
03.06.2024
The GSD Sketching Group and the Call for Sketchbooks Exhibition03.06.2024
The GSD Sketching Group brings together the Harvard Graduate School of Design community to explore and sketch their surroundings. This student group was founded in February 2022 by Olivia Champ Tremml and myself, with the goal of dignifying hand drawing within the design professions and to strengthen its relevance in… Read More
OMA: Elia Zenghelis—Watersheds
31.05.2024
OMA: Elia Zenghelis—Watersheds31.05.2024
This is the second post, in a series of six, titled OMA CONVERSATIONS. The series is the result of a collaboration between Drawing Matter and architect Richard Hall who, over the past two years, has conducted twenty-three in-depth conversations with key collaborators working with OMA during its formative years. Drawing… Read More
Protected: Haunted Venice
11.02.2025
Protected: Haunted Venice11.02.2025
– Mark West
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Perspective DMC