Drawing London – Exhibition, 13 & 14 September 2025

Drawing by Cedric Price.

Saturday 13 & Sunday 14 September 2025
11.00–18.00
8 Smart’s Place, London, WC2B 5LW

For the 2025 Open House Festival Drawing Matter presented ‘Drawing London’, an exhibition that maps the city through drawings from the collection for familiar buildings, those that have been lost over time, others that were never built, and radical projects.

Projects included: The British Library, The Brunswick Centre, The Houses of Parliament, The Victoria & Albert Museum, Churchill Gardens, Canary Wharf, Battersea Power Station, Brown Hart Gardens, The Thames Tunnel, The Festival of Britain, Temple Bar, Hay’s Wharf, Lisson Gallery, Golden Lane, Mansion House Square, and more.

Find more about Open House festival 2025 here.

A full record of the drawings and objects included in the pin-up, along with short curatorial texts, can be found here.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, photographer John Donat, Mansion House Square project, City of London, 1984. Colour Photograph, 300 × 405 mm. DMC 2377.8.
Robert Bremmel Schnebbelie, Burlington Arcade, 1827. Black ink and coloured washes on paper, 215 × 275 mm. DMC 1643.
James Gowan, Trafalgar Road Housing, after 1968. Collage, 280 × 388 mm. DMC 2781.1.

Drawing Matter’s public programme offers the public opportunities to experience our drawings collection, which is usually only open to researchers by appointment and for student/practice workshops. Events take the form of talks at the archive, workshops by practitioners and open weekends. The programme is led by Kendra Matchett, Martha Cruz, and Matt Page.

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