Medium: drawing

For AP + AR

For AP + AR

Kirsty Badenoch

Long, thin and crisp, sun-bleached, rose-blushed. Thousand-time photocopied notations of notations. Struck-through with highlighter, corrected and recorrected re-negotiated, scribbled and walked across. I walk together with AP e AR, our thin nibbed-shoes picking careful tracks between sharpie chasms. We leak behind us inky trails, to be washed away by the… Read More

The Utzons go to Stockholm

The Utzons go to Stockholm

Jørn Utzon

‘…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

E. W. Godwin and the Mild Mild West

Matt Page

From this drawing it would seem unlikely that the side elevation at its centre would one day be photographed thousands of times and attract the interest of people from all over the world. It appears unremarkable, especially when compared to the gutsy brick detailing and gothic flourishes of the building’s… Read More

Montano – Don’t Speak About Me

Montano – Don’t Speak About Me

Cammy Brothers

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

Brunel’s Camera Lucida: A Closer Look

Brunel’s Camera Lucida: A Closer Look

Pablo Garcia

A camera lucida is a 19th-century drawing aid. When you look into the eyepiece, you see a ghost image of your subject overlaid onto your paper. Since you can see your hand holding your pencil with your subject superimposed, you can trace directly from real life. Invented in 1807, before… Read More

Ian Hamilton Finlay at Drawing Matter

Ian Hamilton Finlay at Drawing Matter

Matt Page

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

Drawing as Travelogue

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

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

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

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

Drawing Research Platform, Somerset, 2024, ENAC Summer Workshop

Drawing Research Platform, Somerset, 2024, ENAC Summer Workshop

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

Notes on the Visionary Spaces Exhibition at the Belvedere 21

Emerald Wise

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

Drawing as Signature: Paul Rudolph and the Perspective Section

Timothy M. Rohan

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

Notes from the Architecture Foundation Summer School

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 

The Improvising Bouwmeester,* or: How Raymaekers’ Buildings Got Built 

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

Impressions of the Siza Exhibition

Impressions of the Siza Exhibition

Sergio Kopinski Ekerman

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

Sol LeWitt: Non-visual Structures

Sol LeWitt: Non-visual Structures

Lucy Lippard

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

José Oubrerie, In Memoriam

Luis Burriel Bielza

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

Cedric Price: Parc de la Villette

Cedric Price: Parc de la Villette

Ana Bonet Miró

The following account looks into the drawing DMC 1438 related to Price’s Parc de la Villette competition entry, to quest for the modes in which this media object resituates his design approach of design for pleasure, not only as the evolution of his practice, but crucially as part of an… Read More

On Origins and Originality

On Origins and Originality

Niall Hobhouse

The following text by Niall Hobhouse is included in the exhibition catalogue for Begin Again. Fail Better: Preliminary Drawings in Architecture. The exhibition, previously shown at the Kunstmuseum in Olten, opened at EPFL on the 5th of November and will close on the 2nd of December 2024. It includes nearly 100 drawings from… Read More

DMJ – Five Episodes from the History of Drawing Instruments

DMJ – Five Episodes from the History of Drawing Instruments

Neil Bingham

Instruments of Building in Ancient Rome Vitruvius, writing in the first century BC, portrays being an architect (architectus) in ancient Rome as a daunting task. The knowledge of the architect, he notes, must encompass the understanding of geometry, engineering, optics, history, philosophy, astronomy, and even music and medicine. At a… Read More

Fuglsang Kunstmuseum: Facts and Interpretation in Staging a Museum

Fuglsang Kunstmuseum: Facts and Interpretation in Staging a Museum

Tony Fretton

The following text was first published in OASE #111: Staging the Museum (2022). Drawing Matter would like to thank Tony Fretton and the issue’s editors Aslı Çiçek, Jantje Engels, and Maarten Liefooghe, for allowing us to reproduce the text. Purchase a copy of OASE #111 here. Fuglsang Kunstmuseum is located on the… Read More