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Protected: Tolerance

Protected: Tolerance

Tom Emerson

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House Container

House Container

The House Container was designed and converted by Paul Rawson in 2006. Originally sited at Hadspen House, it was moved to Shatwell Farm and used as short-term accommodation for visitors the archive and site.

Comins × Shatwell Tea House

Comins × Shatwell Tea House

Similar to the way the soil, climate, cultivar, and—of course—the tea maker come together to craft distinct and flavourful teas, numerous helping hands played an important role in the journey that culminated in the process and construction of the Comins × Shatwell Tea House. The most common question visitors have… Read More

Protected: Sin Centre: Sheen and Transparent Overlays

Protected: Sin Centre: Sheen and Transparent Overlays

Nat Chard and Editors

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Protected: Land Lines

Protected: Land Lines

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Protected: James Gowan: Living Rooms

Protected: James Gowan: Living Rooms

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Two Lectures at Drawing Research Platform, Somerset, 2024, ENAC Summer Workshop

Two Lectures at Drawing Research Platform, Somerset, 2024, ENAC Summer Workshop

Sergio Kopinski Ekerman

The following text is a brief reflection on two lectures delivered at Shatwell Farm in August 2024 as part of the ENAC EPFL Drawing Research Platform. To read the students’ reflections and view their drawings, click here. To read an account of the week, click here. The two lectures at… Read More

Léo Perrin and Polina Holub

Léo Perrin and Polina Holub

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

Léa Guillotin and Michael Becker

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

Christelle Blanco and Kasia Stachnio

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

James Haynes and Sophie Sills

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

Emilie Hamel and Edouard Heinkel

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

Jéremie Engler and Lalie Porteret

Jéremie Engler and Lalie Porteret

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

Protected: The Significance of Drawing

Protected: The Significance of Drawing

Álvaro Siza

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Protected: Site Drawing: GPS on Architecture

Protected: Site Drawing: GPS on Architecture

Anton Ripon

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Protected: Carcassonne and Viollet-le-Duc

Protected: Carcassonne and Viollet-le-Duc

Henry James

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Frank Lloyd Wright at Drawing Matter

Frank Lloyd Wright at Drawing Matter

Editors and Nicholas Olsberg

The Frank Lloyd Wright collection is of primary interest from 1936 to 1951, and especially for a small group of studies and presentations for the shaping of domestic space, dwelling within landscape, and interior fittings. There are also important isolated drawings for a prairie house, Midway Gardens, the Johnson Administration… Read More

Glarner Wirtschaftsarchiv

Glarner Wirtschaftsarchiv

Helen Thomas

Through an unprepossessing door tucked into the corner of two buildings located at the edge of a precinct both rural and industrial is the entrance to the kind of magic world that archives often hide. Founded 20 years ago by Dr. Sybill Kindlimann of the influential local family, Blumer, the… Read More

Mapping Cities: Barcelona and Paris

Mapping Cities: Barcelona and Paris

Dibujantes CNT and Grand Marnier

Prompted by the publication of Laurence Le Bras and Emmanuel Guy’s text on Guy Debord’s situationist maps of Paris, a closer look at two ways to represent the experience of a city…

Protected: Emerging Ecologies: O.M. Ungers

Protected: Emerging Ecologies: O.M. Ungers

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I and We

I and We

Richard Hall

Protected: Frank Lloyd Wright in London

Protected: Frank Lloyd Wright in London

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Drawing Exercises: Design Process

Drawing Exercises: Design Process

Matt Page and Fernando Poeiras

This post is part of a series of Drawing Exercises developed by Fernando Poeiras (ESAD.CR/LIDA) with Drawing Matter. Find the introduction to the series here. The following exercises simulate different aspects of design processes. They refer to drawings from the collection included in the lightbox linked here, but can be… Read More

Drawing Exercises: Creativity

Drawing Exercises: Creativity

Matt Page and Fernando Poeiras

This post is part of a series of Drawing Exercises developed by Fernando Poeiras (ESAD.CR/LIDA) with Drawing Matter. Find the introduction to the series here. Good design is a good material solution. Within the boundaries of architecture, product, or landscape design, finding these solutions requires the application of the imagination… Read More