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Protected: Frank Lloyd Wright in London
19 July 2023
Protected: Frank Lloyd Wright in London19 July 2023
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Drawing Exercises: Design Process
14 July 2023
Drawing Exercises: Design Process14 July 2023
– 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
12 July 2023
Drawing Exercises: Creativity12 July 2023
– 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
Leonora Oppenheim: Shatwell Edition Print
5 June 2023
Leonora Oppenheim: Shatwell Edition Print5 June 2023
‘There is a time in the early dawn when we parade through the fields, taking possession of the landscape that was once ours. Only the intrepid few might catch a glimpse of this spectacle before they awake. Let us reveal our splendour on the threshold. Let us float through this… Read More
Nuno Melo Sousa: on big papers
26 May 2023
Nuno Melo Sousa: on big papers26 May 2023
This text is a part of a series of reflections by Nuno Melo Sousa on his drawing practices. Click here for the series introduction. First, there were a couple of tense drawings.One, two, three. At the very third second, it quickly escalated to a nonstop dry pastel scratch on A2… Read More
Nuno Melo Sousa: on small papers
26 May 2023
Nuno Melo Sousa: on small papers26 May 2023
This text is a part of a series of reflections by Nuno Melo Sousa on his drawing practices. Click here for the series introduction. Kept behind the scenes, singing like mantras: voices in low tune. They flourish and are planted like small seeds.Their synthesis is colourful and schematic.They are all… Read More
Nuno Melo Sousa: on walls
26 May 2023
Nuno Melo Sousa: on walls26 May 2023
This text is a part of a series of reflections by Nuno Melo Sousa on his drawing practices. Click here for the series introduction. Liberation.When I was a kid, I could not draw on walls. It was forbidden in my parents’ house. At school, we could pin pieces of paper.… Read More
Nuno Melo Sousa: authority
26 May 2023
Nuno Melo Sousa: authority26 May 2023
This text is a part of a series of reflections by Nuno Melo Sousa on his drawing practices. Click here for the series introduction. there is no authority.there is no gravity.there is no fee.there is no programme.there is no agenda.there is no time.there is no client.there is no plot. Creatures.… Read More
Nuno Melo Sousa: in cahiers
25 April 2023
Nuno Melo Sousa: in cahiers25 April 2023
This text is a part of a series of reflections by Nuno Melo Sousa on his drawing practices. Click here for the series introduction. As we travel, sitting, walking, flying, and running, we can look at the world.As we sit, eating, we can look at a small cahier also sitting,… Read More
Protected: Collection News: Binazzi and UFO, Burton, Gounod, Siza, Visconti and more
13 March 2023
Protected: Collection News: Binazzi and UFO, Burton, Gounod, Siza, Visconti and more13 March 2023
– Editors
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Alison and Peter Smithson’s Collages as Reinventing Established Reality
24 February 2023
Alison and Peter Smithson’s Collages as Reinventing Established Reality24 February 2023
Alison and Peter Smithson often introduced figures that were protagonists in the news, such as Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio, French actor Gérard Philipe, and the first prime minister of Independent India, Jawaharlal Nehru into their architectural drawings for social housing projects—as in the case of their collages for the… Read More
Shatwell farm open day – 18 June 2022
11 May 2022
Shatwell farm open day – 18 June 202211 May 2022
Drawing Matter is holding its annual Open Day on Saturday 18 June, 11am-7pm. Visitors will be invited to explore the site of Shatwell Farm, which includes completed buildings by Hugh Strange, Stephen Taylor, David Grandorge, and Skene Catling de la Pena architects, a conversion by Clancy Moore Architects, and a variety of… Read More
Design Starts: Loughborough School of Architecture at Shatwell Farm
3 May 2022
Design Starts: Loughborough School of Architecture at Shatwell Farm3 May 2022
The following is an account of a visit to Drawing Matter in March 2022 made by Benjamin Machin and his students at the Loughborough School of Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering – Alina Abdulwahid, Nyewuna Amadi, Jemima Dabell, Beckie Downs, Lewis Foster-Jeapes, Will Jones, Will Mennell, Danielle Riley, Joe Tolley,… Read More
An Artist Browsing the Collection
3 May 2022
An Artist Browsing the Collection3 May 2022
My visits to the archive happened during the summer of 2021 in a gap between lockdowns. Shatwell Farm is a haven of contemporary buildings sitting alongside tumbling and restored farm buildings, an obelisk, pillars, corrugated materials, stone, sleepers, silos, a library, and a gallery. Amongst all this is the Drawing… Read More
Reflections on my Internship
27 April 2022
Reflections on my Internship27 April 2022
In April 2021, I hesitantly emailed the editors at Drawing Matter to ask if they were currently accepting internship applications. Why would the Drawing Matter team want to burden themselves with an inexperienced and most likely unhelpful American intern? They had no established internship program, Covid-19 cases were on the… Read More
Signature
15 February 2021
Signature15 February 2021
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
Collection of Sections
2 December 2020
Collection of Sections2 December 2020
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
Alternative Histories: Hild und K Architekten on James Gowan
10 August 2019
Alternative Histories: Hild und K Architekten on James Gowan10 August 2019
“Form follows fender” In James Gowan’s parallel projections we were particularly interested in their spatial qualities, and how the form could develop. Seen as a negative space, it could be a staggered courtyard. James Gowan used a car shape as a reference. By extracting the theme and duplicating the shape… Read More
Nuno Melo Sousa: weight
26 May 2023
Nuno Melo Sousa: weight26 May 2023
– Nuno Melo Sousa
This text is a part of a series of reflections by Nuno Melo Sousa on his drawing practices. Click here for the series introduction. They dance.They stand.They stare.They bend.They underline.They comply.They don’t comply.They question.They agree.They dismiss.They provoke.They ignore. Each and every one of them keeps a continuous movement between what… Read More