Category: on their own work
A Suite for the Absent Addressee
13.07.2026
A Suite for the Absent Addressee13.07.2026
Prelude Construction has ceased abruptly. The inertia of instruction persists. When drawing is deprived of an addressee, the drift between the prescriptive and the descriptive intensifies. Act I: Villa Consider Villa Pisani Placco by Andrea Palladio, built for Francesco Pisani between 1552 and 1555 in Montagnana. Three elements are of interest:… Read More
Atlases: Drawings on Newspaper
10.07.2026
Atlases: Drawings on Newspaper10.07.2026
My drawings are done on an unusual medium: newspapers. Around 2016, I began to draw on news–paper to try to counteract that inescapable status of newspapers themselves: conveying daily words that are often forgotten the next day, a condition reflected in an idiom of the English language—yesterday’s paper—used to refer… Read More
OPEN-GROUND
10.07.2026
OPEN-GROUND 10.07.2026
– Daniel Jacobs and Brittany Utting
Architecture often treats the surface of the Earth as a liminal plane to break and excavate, cut and fill, and ultimately smooth into a neutral line. Even one of architecture’s most geological of drawing types, the worm’s-eye, typically eradicates any vestiges of earthly matters, reducing the underworld to an empty… Read More
DMJ – SMS to Eternity
03.07.2026
DMJ – SMS to Eternity03.07.2026
Marlon and Elvis lived on opposite sides of Cutlers Wood.They were friends.They were immortal.One day Marlon sent Elvis an SMS: Marlon – Hey Elvis, cool cat, why don’t we see each other more often,We could talk about that geek Warhol who put us here! Elvis – Sure, but I am scared to… Read More
An Attardé Draftsman: Giacomo Beverati
02.07.2026
An Attardé Draftsman: Giacomo Beverati02.07.2026
‘In a certain sense the past is far more real, or at any rate more stable, more resilient than the present. The present slips and vanishes like sand between the fingers, acquiring material weight, only in its recollection’ —Andrei Tarkovsky Italian culture has always produced artists who were attardé, either… Read More
Unknown Hands
29.06.2026
Unknown Hands29.06.2026
The visual material presented here comes from an early phase of House of Fire, an installation created by Studio Paradigma Ariadné for the 2025 Chicago Architecture Biennale—long before the exhibition reached its final form. These images were never intended for display. They were test pieces, fragments, unsuccessful experiments, photocopies of photocopies:… Read More
Protected: Eye, Hand and Mind: An Interview on the Drawing Process
23.06.2026
Protected: Eye, Hand and Mind: An Interview on the Drawing Process 23.06.2026
– Bryan Cantley and Helen Castle
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Unseen Bodies
19.06.2026
Unseen Bodies19.06.2026
This drawing explores how the human body has been depicted, understood, and imagined in Danish architectural and design education over the past 270 years. It represents a study of more than two hundred public and private archival materials sourced from various contemporary educational institutions, libraries, and archives across Denmark.[1] The… Read More
DMJ – Show
12.06.2026
DMJ – Show12.06.2026
Going to dark bed there was a square round Sinbad the Sailor roc’s auk’s egg in the night of the bed of all the auks of the rocs of Darkinbad the Brightdayler. Where? James Joyce, Ulysses 17.2328-32 [1] Night-time on Eccles Street. Someone is half-dreaming of a mythical bird—a roc—in the Arabian… Read More
Concept of Proof
05.06.2026
Concept of Proof05.06.2026
We talk of the invisible drawings that birth a project, but words persistently catalyse and crystallise thought, providing spur or anchor for the meandering of mind and hand in the extrication of architectures. Publication, specification, contract, critique—words. Our history and very conceptual frameworks rely on the productive and ‘dangerous inversions… Read More
Protected: Surveying Sierra Nevada
21.05.2026
Protected: Surveying Sierra Nevada21.05.2026
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Drawing Superpositions
15.05.2026
Drawing Superpositions15.05.2026
When drawing plans for a project that does not primarily form architectural space through solid mass, the question of what a line signifies becomes especially critical. This drawing faced the challenge of representing an object that produces light and sound, situated in the public space of Vårby Gård, a suburb… Read More
Protected: Three Drawings
14.05.2026
Protected: Three Drawings14.05.2026
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Protected: Drawing Motion as Thought
15.04.2026
Protected: Drawing Motion as Thought15.04.2026
– MRND
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Tracing Air with Light
03.04.2026
Tracing Air with Light03.04.2026
When architects design buildings, they simultaneously construct environments for human habitation and activity. Whether through the warmth emanating from a hearth or the breeze generated by an air-conditioning unit, architecture is always implicated in the modulation of environmental conditions. However, environmental control—along with the elements that it seeks to temper—remains… Read More
And in the shadows, the section fades
13.03.2026
And in the shadows, the section fades13.03.2026
On the black cartridge, a veil of pigments builds up, articulates an edge and fades into the depth. And yet it is the edge that meets me first, together with all the other edges that are layered upon each other. Cascading contrasts of white and black. Or: of brightness and darkness. Now… Read More
DMJ – Death Masks
06.03.2026
DMJ – Death Masks06.03.2026
This series of drawings is part of a larger project titled Tracking Blood Meridian, which explores the work of the American writer Cormac McCarthy. The sketchbook pages are developed as studies for landscape-like death masks that relate to members of the nineteenth-century Glanton gang, on whose exploits McCarthy’s 1985 novel… Read More
Levers Long Enough to Move the World
03.03.2026
Levers Long Enough to Move the World03.03.2026
‘Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world’ — Archimedes Levers Long Enough to Move the World is an exhibition of architectural sketches curated by Andrew Holder at the Pratt School of Architecture, featuring the work of 62 contemporary… Read More
Engraving Shadows
19.02.2026
Engraving Shadows19.02.2026
In all relief printmaking techniques such as woodcut (in which cuts are made along the plank of a smooth piece of wood) and linocut (involving, like woodcuts, steel gouges with U- and V-shaped cutting tips), as well as wood engraving and even the humble potato-cut, what you leave uncut on… Read More
John Hejduk, Object/Subject Riga
13.02.2026
John Hejduk, Object/Subject Riga13.02.2026
I began photographing John Hejduk’s work at the beginning of my interest in photography, when I knew little about his work and about architecture in general. Yet photographing John Hejduk came to me in a very natural way. His work, being so unique, had no visual references, and that gave… Read More
Drawing Research Platform, London, 2025, ENAC Summer Workshop
15.01.2026
Drawing Research Platform, London, 2025, ENAC Summer Workshop15.01.2026
– Raffael Baur, Patricia Guaita and Matthew Wells
For a fourth year, Drawing Matter hosted students from ENAC EPFL for a week-long workshop on survey drawings—this time not in a Somerset farmyard, but in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, 400 yards east of the archive. The workshop was organised by Patricia Guaita and Raffael Baur in collaboration with Drawing Matter,… Read More
On Measurement: A Survey of Florence
12.01.2026
On Measurement: A Survey of Florence12.01.2026
The following text is an extract from a longer essay entitled ‘De re mensura: Surveying Practice in Quattrocento Painting’—which the author completed at the Warburg Institute in the autumn of 2025—looking at Renaissance perspective painting to consider how practices of surveying informed the development of perspective as an artistic and intellectual pursuit. *… Read More
Mapping Water
26.06.2026
Mapping Water26.06.2026
– Anna Biza
Some years ago, I travelled to Egypt and visited the Suez Canal—the international water passage that connects the Mediterranean with the Red Sea. While standing on a small pier in Ismailia, I watched the huge cargo ships passing; the canal seemed more like a water highway. At the same time,… Read More
map mapping Open Call: Visibility, and the Unseen plan presentation water