Medium: drawing
Protected: Richard Neutra at Drawing Matter
17 January 2025
Protected: Richard Neutra at Drawing Matter17 January 2025
– Editors and Nicholas Olsberg
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The Utzons go to Stockholm
17 January 2025
The Utzons go to Stockholm17 January 2025
‘…my parents went to visit the grand exhibition in Stockholm in 1930. Here the Scandinavian functionalism had its breakthrough in a society of exceedingly ornate style. Here [in Stockholm] they were exposed to a new and simple, white architecture that drew in light and air, one that let in the… Read More
E. W. Godwin and the Mild Mild West
13 January 2025
E. W. Godwin and the Mild Mild West13 January 2025
From this drawing it would seem unlikely that the side wall at its centre would one day be photographed thousands of times, and attract the interest of people from all over the world. Here, it appears unremarkable, especially when compared to the gutsy brick detailing and gothic flourishes of the… Read More
Montano – Don’t speak about me
10 January 2025
Montano – Don’t speak about me10 January 2025
Dear Niall, Before I forget, I wanted to send you the transcription from the Montano sheet. You can post it as my little discovery. Non dir di me se su di me non sai senza di te che poi di me dirai?Non fare ad aloro quello che a te non piace … Read More
Protected: Adolf Loos: House Tzara, Paris, 1925-27
7 January 2025
Protected: Adolf Loos: House Tzara, Paris, 1925-277 January 2025
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Ian Hamilton Finlay at Drawing Matter
6 January 2025
Ian Hamilton Finlay at Drawing Matter6 January 2025
Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925–2006) was born in Nassau, Bahamas, and educated in Scotland from the age of six. He briefly studied at the Glasgow School of Art and joined the British Army in 1942. After the war, Finlay worked as a shepherd while producing paintings, short plays and stories. He… Read More
Drawing as Travelogue
27 December 2024
Drawing as Travelogue27 December 2024
– Beth George and Emerald Wise
This is a rumination on memory, perceived worlds, and on drawing as embodied experience and shared conversation. While visiting Drawing Matter, we attended to and later remembered spaces both drawn and physical. Produced on the floor of a roof terrace in Sicily, we moved over the drawn field as a… Read More
Two lectures at Drawing Research Platform, Somerset, 2024, ENAC Summer Workshop
19 December 2024
Two lectures at Drawing Research Platform, Somerset, 2024, ENAC Summer Workshop19 December 2024
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
19 December 2024
Léo Perrin and Polina Holub19 December 2024
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
19 December 2024
Léa Guillotin and Michael Becker19 December 2024
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
James Haynes and Sophie Sills
19 December 2024
James Haynes and Sophie Sills19 December 2024
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
Jéremie Engler and Lalie Porteret
19 December 2024
Jéremie Engler and Lalie Porteret19 December 2024
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
Drawing Research Platform, Somerset, 2024, ENAC Summer Workshop
19 December 2024
Drawing Research Platform, Somerset, 2024, ENAC Summer Workshop19 December 2024
– Raffael Baur and Patricia Guaita
The following text recounts the week-long drawing workshop held at Shatwell Farm in August 2024. To read the students’ reflections and view their drawings, click here. To read invited expert Sergio Ekerman’s account of the two lectures he delivered throughout the week, click here. The 2024 ENAC Summer Workshop at… Read More
Notes on the Visionary Spaces exhibition at the Belvedere 21
16 December 2024
Notes on the Visionary Spaces exhibition at the Belvedere 2116 December 2024
I arrive at the Belvedere 21 after visiting Walter Pichler’s famous farmhouse in Sankt Martin an der Raab, only a few days prior—it is a stiflingly hot day in Vienna and for some reason, I have chosen to walk. I arrive at the Belvedere 21 to attend the Visionary Spaces exhibition that showcases some of Walter Pichler’s works in… Read More
Drawing as Signature: Paul Rudolph and the Perspective Section
12 December 2024
Drawing as Signature: Paul Rudolph and the Perspective Section12 December 2024
The following text delves into the drawing of the perspective section—a spatial and structural design tool as well as a specific type of architectural representation—through the drawings of Paul Rudolph, while also reflecting on a post-war Modern era of architectural design-thinking. The text is included in Reassessing Rudolph, ed. by… Read More
Notes from the Architecture Foundation Summer School
9 December 2024
Notes from the Architecture Foundation Summer School9 December 2024
– Anne Femmer, Adam Khan and Florian Summa
The following account by Anne Femmer, Adam Khan, and Florian Summa—three of the architects who led the Architecture Foundation 2024 Summer School—offers a reflection of the Summer School, which ran between 11–15 September 2024 at the newly completed St Pancras Campus, a mixed-use development in Central London designed by Caruso… Read More
The improvising bouwmeester,* or: how Raymaekers’ buildings got built
5 December 2024
The improvising bouwmeester,* or: how Raymaekers’ buildings got built 5 December 2024
– Arne Vande Capelle, Stijn Colon, Lionel Devlieger and James Westcott
The following text first appeared in Arne Vande Capelle, Stijn Colon, Lionel Devlieger, and James Westcott, Ad Hoc Baroque: Marcel Raymaekers’ Salvage Architecture in Postwar Belgium (Brussels: Rotor, 2023), 168, 174-178. *Master builder, from the middle ages, responsible for materials, design, construction, workforce, and client liaison.[1] Raymaekers rejected the modern diminution of the architect’s… Read More
Protected: Drawing on Ideas
3 December 2024
Protected: Drawing on Ideas3 December 2024
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Impressions of the Siza exhibition
2 December 2024
Impressions of the Siza exhibition2 December 2024
When I was an architecture exchange student at Faculdade de Arquitetura da Universidade do Porto (FAUP), between 2000 and 2001, there was a legend you could knock at Álvaro Siza Vieira’s office door and end up working there as an intern—the equivalent of walking into Mount Olympus to collaborate with… Read More
Protected: The Cypress and the Arch
28 November 2024
Protected: The Cypress and the Arch28 November 2024
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Sol LeWitt: Non-visual Structures
25 November 2024
Sol LeWitt: Non-visual Structures25 November 2024
One of the most particular of LeWitt’s preoccupations is his long-standing desire to infer the existence of unseen or interior facts or objects. The concept of encasing in a block of cement the Cellini cup or the Empire State Building runs counter to the unsecretive quality of his open frameworks,… Read More
JOSÉ OUBRERIE, IN MEMORIAM
21 November 2024
JOSÉ OUBRERIE, IN MEMORIAM21 November 2024
Very few contemporary buildings take nearly 50 years to be finished. Just this fact tells us a lot about the intensity, resilience, passion and patience of José Oubrerie, who passed away on March 10th, at 91. Aged only 27 when joining the atelier Le Corbusier in 1959, the church of… Read More
Protected: Anton Markus Pasing
15 January 2025
Protected: Anton Markus Pasing15 January 2025
– Peter Wilson
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sketch theoretical & imaginary