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1329 texts about architecture in drawings, models and photography. 792 writers on 890 architects.
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Behind the Lines 14
03.02.2020

Behind the Lines 1403.02.2020

– Philippa Lewis

These are just insignificant sketches, but they remind me of the Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques in 1937; by night it was a unique experience – mémorable. René-André Coulon (1908–1997), Projet…

topographic/cartographic presentation civic & municipal public space behind the lines (series) creative writing DMC

Basil Spence: Houses of Parliament
29.01.2020

Basil Spence: Houses of Parliament29.01.2020

Basil Spence (1907–1976), study sketch for the enlargement of the Houses of Parliament, London: elevation, 1969. Pencil on paper, 245 × 480 mm. DMC 1104r. Basil Spence (1907–1976), study sketch…

DMC sketch theoretical & imaginary civic & municipal public space

Battersea Redevelopment
22.01.2020

Battersea Redevelopment22.01.2020

In Bat-Hat, our project for Battersea Power Station, we have divested the existing building of all that froze the immediate site, leaving only that which is considered important – its…

concept & diagram theoretical & imaginary industry & infrastructure DMC sketch

Origins in Translation
20.01.2020

Origins in Translation20.01.2020

– Mari Lending

Broken bits of ancient architecture piled up in the foreground of a printed page is a topos in the canon of architectural publications. An early example takes place in the frontispiece of…

DMC student work publication theoretical & imaginary agriculture graphic design Extracts: Women Writing Architecture

Marie-José Van Hee: Drawn Closer
02.01.2020

Marie-José Van Hee: Drawn Closer02.01.2020

– Marie-José Van Hee

Marie-José Van Hee (1950), House Van Hee, 1990–1993. Graphite on tracing paper. Courtesy the architect. Towards the end of my architectural studies in the late 1960s I moved into a…

sketch plan section elevation domestic drawn closer (series)

Other Lives: Charles Eisen and Laugier’s Essai sur l’Architecture
26.12.2019

Other Lives: Charles Eisen and Laugier’s Essai sur l’Architecture26.12.2019

– Rebecca Williamson

One of the best-known drawings related to the discipline is the ‘allegory of architecture’, drawn by Charles-Dominique-Joseph Eisen and engraved by Jean-Jacques Aliamet. [1] The original is now in the collection of…

publication theoretical & imaginary graphic design DMC

Six Architects on their Dream Desks
17.12.2019

Six Architects on their Dream Desks17.12.2019

– Roz Barr, Biba Dow, Elizabeth Hatz, Emma Letizia Jones, Stephanie Macdonald and Helen Thomas

Drawing Matter recently acquired this design for a table, below. Although the work’s last sale in 1972 attributed the drawing to Thomas Chippendale, we are (perhaps wishfully) hoping that it…

presentation publication DMC elevation projection (axonometric isometric) detail furniture & object design

From a Little Below and to the Right
17.12.2019

From a Little Below and to the Right17.12.2019

– Niall Hobhouse

Edwin Lutyens (1869–1944), Elevation, perspective, section of moulding, 1915. Pencil and blue crayon on tracing, folded and overlaid. DMC 3197.8. There is a characteristic recurrence in Lutyens’ drawings of a…

sketch elevation domestic DMC

Postcard from Nowhere (Counterswimming)
08.04.2020

Postcard from Nowhere (Counterswimming)08.04.2020

– Teresa Stoppani

Madelon Vriesendorp (1945), Medusa Raft, Trial proof, 1978. Screenprint. DMC 3000.11. Sixteen swim in synchrony. Bright red trunks, blue swim caps, in a perfectly choreographed 4 x 4 grid of…

DMC presentation theoretical & imaginary civic & municipal

Haiku
28.04.2020

Haiku28.04.2020

– John Cage

John Cage (1912–1992), Haiku, 1952. Print and zinc line-cut on Kochi paper, 140 × 335 mm. Print from edition of 300 made at Black Mountain, North Carolina. DMC 2629.2. Here…

graphic design correspondence letters ephemera DMC

One Thing Leads to Another
23.04.2020

One Thing Leads to Another23.04.2020

– Richard Hall

Architecture rarely results from a singular eureka moment or a spontaneous act of genius. The myth of the napkin sketch is precisely a myth. The lucidity it suggests is essential,…

plan elevation domestic urban form DMC

L’Invasion de la Viande (1980)
14.05.2020

L’Invasion de la Viande (1980)14.05.2020

– Elie Delamare-Debouteville

Jean Criton (1930), Mounument pour un Rosbeef, c.1968–1969. Pen, ink and coloured chalks on buff paper, 321 × 251 mm. DMC 2054. As part of an imagined intervention in the…

DMC presentation art practice civic & municipal urban form

Álvaro Siza: Drawn Closer
11.06.2020

Álvaro Siza: Drawn Closer11.06.2020

– Álvaro Siza

Cover of ‘Caderno 1’, dated March 1977. This text was originally published in Architecture through Drawing. Drawn Closer is a year-long collaboration between Domus and Drawing Matter, edited by Sarah…

sketch survey urban form drawn closer (series) DMC

Welfare Palace Hotel (1978)
04.06.2020

Welfare Palace Hotel (1978)04.06.2020

– Rem Koolhaas

Rem Koolhaas, Madelon Vriesendorp, Welfare Palace Hotel, Sunken Medusa Raft, 1975–1976. Gouache and acrylic on paper, 780 × 1140 mm. DMC 3000.1. In the appendix to Delirious New York, Rem Koolhaas’s…

presentation theoretical & imaginary commerce domestic urban form DMC elevation

Michael Graves’ Rooftop Village (1985)
01.06.2020

Michael Graves’ Rooftop Village (1985)01.06.2020

– David L. Gilbert

Michael Graves (1934–2015), Sketch designs, Portland, Oregon, USA, 1980. Pencil and colour crayon on yellow tracing paper, 255 × 290 mm. DMC 1800. A notable aspect of the early criticism…

DMC sketch plan commerce urban form

Working with Asplund
29.05.2020

Working with Asplund29.05.2020

– Herbert Korn

Asplund’s office was two floors up in an old building in Regeringsgatan, behind the NK department store. There were civil engineers there and Asplund collaborated with them as well. They…

sketch plan section religion DMC

New Welfare Island (1978)
27.05.2020

New Welfare Island (1978)27.05.2020

– Rem Koolhaas

OMA, Rem Koolhaas, Roosevelt Island, 1975. Acrylic and watercolour. DMC 3070. In the appendix to Delirious New York, Rem Koolhaas’s retroactive manifesto for the island of Manhattan, the tacit logic of…

civic & municipal urban form DMC presentation

Gallaratese & Fagnano Olona (1976)
26.05.2020

Gallaratese & Fagnano Olona (1976)26.05.2020

– Aldo Rossi

Two fragments of texts paired with two fragments of process. Writing in the May 1976 issue of Architecture + Urbanism, Rossi reflects on two projects: the Gallaratese Housing Complex, Milan and…

memorial & monument DMC sketch concept & diagram civic & municipal domestic

Eisenman: House VI (1985)
21.05.2020

Eisenman: House VI (1985)21.05.2020

– Kathleen Enz Finken

Peter Eisenman (1932), House VI: colour axonometric, 1972. Black ink, coloured ink, and adhesive vinyl on mylar, 609 × 609 mm. DMC 1280. The design of House VI was partly…

projection (axonometric isometric) presentation domestic DMC

On William Kent (1771)
19.05.2020

On William Kent (1771)19.05.2020

– Horace Walpole

William Kent (1685–1748), Sketch view of Windsor Castle, Windsor, England, 1740. Pen and black ink with wash on laid paper, 201 × 324 mm. DMC 1676. Here is Walpole’s famous…

sketch landscape DMC

Hotel Sphinx (1978)
18.05.2020

Hotel Sphinx (1978)18.05.2020

– Rem Koolhaas

Elia Zenghelis, OMA, elevation, Hotel Sphinx, Times Square, New York, 1975. Pencil and ink on tracing, 296 × 210 mm. DMC 3150. In the appendix to Delirious New York, Rem Koolhaas’s…

commerce urban form DMC sketch plan

Ink on his Hands: Montano’s Visceral Roman Architectures
18.05.2020

Ink on his Hands: Montano’s Visceral Roman Architectures18.05.2020

– Dijana O. Apostolski

Giovanni Battista Montano (1534–1621), leaf from an eight-page album (detail), c.1590–1610. Brown ink and brown wash, 245 × 143 mm. DMC 1542.4. When he sat down to make the drawings…

memorial & monument religion plan record section elevation survey DMC presentation publication

Wright & Lautner: The Divorce
12.05.2020

Wright & Lautner: The Divorce12.05.2020

– Nicholas Olsberg

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959), drawing for the ‘Eaglefeather’ estate for Arch Oboler in the Santa Monica Mountains, 1940. Graphite pencil and colour pencil on tracing paper, 599 × 900 mm….

DMC Soane and Modernism presentation domestic

Daria’s Aria
23.04.2020

Daria’s Aria23.04.2020

– Sarah Handelman

Giò Ponti (1891–1979), draft layout for Aria d’Italia VIII: espressione di Gio Ponti (detail), c.1954. Print, pencil, pen, watercolour, gouache and collage on prepared printed paper. Between 1939 and 1941…

graphic design DMC

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