Erik Gunnar Asplund at Drawing Matter
2 April 2024
Erik Gunnar Asplund at Drawing Matter2 April 2024
– Editors and Nicholas Olsberg
…of exploring shape, proportion, light, and space—were fundamental to his practice, and meticulously maintained. The primary archive is at the Swedish Museum of Architecture but a significant selection of his…
Time’s Witness. History in the Age of Romanticism (2021) – Review
25 July 2022
Time’s Witness. History in the Age of Romanticism (2021) – Review25 July 2022
…the material of history was equally important as its written archive. This major shift in historical approach was largely brought about by antiquarians, a fluid class of connoisseurs and collectors…
Drawing Programme: A Drawing Matter Workshop
2 May 2023
Drawing Programme: A Drawing Matter Workshop2 May 2023
– Niall Hobhouse, Manuel Montenegro and Amy Teh
…the School of Engineering and Architecture, Fribourg, and their tutors Patricia Guaita and Raffael Baur. The recording was made live in the Drawing Matter archive on 5 June 2022, and…
Construct
13 March 2023
Construct13 March 2023
…for Manhattan (New York: Monacelli Press, 1978). Ibid. Elia Zenghelis and Rem Koolhaas, lecture on ‘OMA projects’ (London: Architectural Association, 1976). Courtesy of AA Archives. MoMA. Hamed Khosravi, Do You…
Le Corbusier: The ‘Open hand’ as an expression of freedom?
2 February 2023
Le Corbusier: The ‘Open hand’ as an expression of freedom?2 February 2023
…include dedications by the author. Le Corbusier (1887–1965), model and drawing for the Open Hand Monument in the Drawing Matter Archive, 2019. Photograph. Photo Guus Kaandorp. ‘La Main Ouverte’, 1954:…
Heinz Isler Model
2 November 2022
Heinz Isler Model2 November 2022
– John Chilton and Paul Shepherd
…wonder if we might get back in time for the second episode of Columbo as we headed back to the car, with only the archive left to see. Niall was…
Ulmer House Extension Proposal: Baumschlager & Eberle
12 September 2022
Ulmer House Extension Proposal: Baumschlager & Eberle12 September 2022
…roll of tracing paper. The original drawing, made with rapidograph pens and a pencil, is now lost. Last month this blueprint was moved to Drawing Matter’s archive. Drawing Matter asked…
Wolkenbügel: El Lissitzky as Architect
2 September 2024
Wolkenbügel: El Lissitzky as Architect2 September 2024
– Richard Anderson and Markus Lähteenmäki
…done by Christoph Bürkle and Werner Oeschlin here at gta, I thought as he continued to explain. Having myself already combed the same files in the gta archives that he…
Trevor Dannatt: St Mary’s Grove — Gap and Sign
13 June 2023
Trevor Dannatt: St Mary’s Grove — Gap and Sign13 June 2023
– Adrian Dannatt
…here. Drawings for St Mary’s Grove, alongside other projects for houses, are included in the 2023 Open Day Pin Up in the Drawing Matter archive. Another project, the Smithsons’ drawings…
domestic St Mary's Grove (series) DMC detail