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Twelve drawings for the Governor’s Palace at Chandigarh
22 April 2021
Twelve drawings for the Governor’s Palace at Chandigarh22 April 2021
Drawing Matter was introduced to José Oubrerie by Stan Allen after publishing his text Just Begin in July 2020. Oubrerie worked for Le Corbusier in his Atelier at 35 Rue de Sèvres from 1957 to 1965. The following text is the second in a series of two transcriptions of informal… Read More
The Palace of the Assembly and Museum at Chandigarh
20 April 2021
The Palace of the Assembly and Museum at Chandigarh20 April 2021
Drawing Matter was introduced to José Oubrerie by Stan Allen after publishing his text Just Begin in July 2020. Oubrerie worked for Le Corbusier in his Atelier at 35 Rue de Sèvres from 1957 to 1965. The following text is the first in a series of two transcriptions of informal… Read More
Insignificance: Discipline
12 April 2021
Insignificance: Discipline12 April 2021
The following text is excerpted from Gordon Shrigley, Insignificance: A short discourse on the physical and ideational economy of line within architectural representation (Solitude Editions, 1998). Now, twenty years after Insignificance was first published, Gordon Shrigley has revisited the publication for a series of postings on Drawing Matter. Each of… Read More
Pan Scroll Zoom 12: Elizabeth Hatz
6 April 2021
Pan Scroll Zoom 12: Elizabeth Hatz6 April 2021
This is the twelfth in a series of texts edited by Fabrizio Gallanti on the challenges in the new world of online architectural teaching and, particularly, on the changing role of drawings in presentations and reviews. In this episode, Elizabeth Hatz discusses her personal experience of the pandemic and how her studios… Read More
Seriously Playful
1 April 2021
Seriously Playful1 April 2021
By Jack Huang
Back in December 2018, I received an email with a pdf, composed of 8 compositions in 1:200, from fala atelier. These were ‘comprehensive drawings’ that they were experimenting with for their 2G publication. They simply wanted to know which I liked, and what I thought about them. Some differ from… Read More
Architectural Drawing (1983)
9 March 2021
Architectural Drawing (1983)9 March 2021
This essay was first published in the catalogue for Drawings by Architects (25 February – 3 April 1983), held at the ICA in London. A period piece, for sure, the text sits at the cusp of changing attitudes to the display and value attributed to architect’s drawings. In recent years… Read More
Signature
15 February 2021
Signature15 February 2021
By André Patrão
It’s just a small loose sheet of paper ripped off a notepad. Along its margins, an elegant round-cornered brown border, once enclosing an anonymous blank space of empty expectancy, now ceremoniously frames a mysteriously attractive, harmonious, yet utterly cryptic mark, struck and left upon its surface: a signature. By whose… Read More
Dossier 2: Site & Observation
19 November 2020
Dossier 2: Site & Observation19 November 2020
While researching architectural languages and proportional systems, the unit was also asked to test and develop methods for observation, recording and description, following three intital terms: People: the people who inhabit the immediate environment – those who live there, and those who come into it temporarily, such as rubbish collectors,… Read More
Portfolio 2: Settlement
19 November 2020
Portfolio 2: Settlement19 November 2020
Settlement /ˈsɛt(ə)lm(ə)nt/ a negotiation and agreement a layering of matter coming to rest and stopping Both of these definitions can describe the ways that people engage with the territory around them. Early on in the project, Andrew Clancy remarked how the unit should approach the landscape and site their buildings… Read More
Portfolio 1: Camp
19 November 2020
Portfolio 1: Camp19 November 2020
I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion… The very simplicity and nakedness of man’s life in the primitive ages imply this advantage, at least, that they left him still but a sojourner in nature. When he was… Read More
Collection of Sections
2 December 2020
Collection of Sections2 December 2020
By Allen Keith Yee
The following drawings and commentaries have been excerpted from Visual Discoveries: A Collection of Sections (Oro Editions, 2020). The publication surveys the use of section drawings in the histories of architecture and other professions, from the 17th century to the present. More information on the book can be found here.… Read More
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