Tree Speech
7 November 2020
Tree Speech7 November 2020
…Drawing Matter would like to thank the author and the journal’s editors for allowing us reproduce the essays on www.drawingmatter.org. To order a copy of Log 49, click here. In…
Archives, or Ardor
26 October 2017
Archives, or Ardor26 October 2017
…worry if Agni is destroyed, since he is then in that yonder orb.’ Every construction is temporary, including the fire altar. It is not a fixed object, but a vehicle….
Poetry and Architecture (2023) — Review
11 August 2023
Poetry and Architecture (2023) — Review11 August 2023
…perhaps columns of soldiers marching towards the vanishing point of a no-man’s land.’[19] An isometric does not, of course, have a vanishing-point; and, by extruding block solids through the voids…
Drawing the Curtain: Entangling rendering and theatrical space
2 February 2021
Drawing the Curtain: Entangling rendering and theatrical space2 February 2021
…make things more complicated still, digital drawing tools have now evolved to disguise themselves almost without detection. They can render the effects of lenses, they can render the lens itself,…
Lauretta Vinciarelli: Homogeneous and Non-Homogeneous Grids
11 March 2021
Lauretta Vinciarelli: Homogeneous and Non-Homogeneous Grids11 March 2021
…Press, 1986), p.158. Ibid. Jacques Derrida, ‘Semiology and Grammatology: Interview with Julia Kristeva’, in The Routledge Language and Cultural Theory Reader, edited by Lucy Burke, Tony Crowley and Alan Girvin…
Pan Scroll Zoom 17: Monadnock
1 September 2021
Pan Scroll Zoom 17: Monadnock1 September 2021
– Job Floris and Fabrizio Gallanti
…wider audience. The more interesting question is how much of the past should resonate? Both Sandor Naus, the other co-founder of Monadnock, and I studied at an academy of fine…
Paolo Portoghesi: the Field Theory
9 November 2020
Paolo Portoghesi: the Field Theory9 November 2020
…that it complies with the requirements of the classical order. At the turn of the seventeenth century, Baroque architecture represents one of the most sophisticated examples of proto-parametric architectural styles….
Landing Square Scenarios: The Wilhelmina Pier & Luxor Theatre
29 January 2024
Landing Square Scenarios: The Wilhelmina Pier & Luxor Theatre29 January 2024
…Wilhelmina Pier—docklands recently connected to downtown Rotterdam by Ben van Berkel’s Erasmus bridge, which slips in at the lower edge of our drawings. Our Landing Quay with its voyeuristic Bridge…
Luigi Moretti and Spazio: Eclecticism and Unity of Language
31 July 2024
Luigi Moretti and Spazio: Eclecticism and Unity of Language31 July 2024
…his predecessors, taking on the responsibility of uncovering the unitary language common to all human expressions. Marco Vanucci and Drawing Matter revisit three seminal texts of Luigi Moretti, not generally available in…
Shatwell Farm: Cars
19 February 2024
Shatwell Farm: Cars19 February 2024
…full of cider and shiny pinecone-looking decorations hanging from precast concrete gables inside one of the sheds. Were these from last Christmas or for the one coming? Apart from our…
Resistance and the ‘Architecture of Pessimism’: John Hejduk’s House for the Inhabitant who Refused to Participate
5 August 2024
Resistance and the ‘Architecture of Pessimism’: John Hejduk’s House for the Inhabitant who Refused to Participate5 August 2024
– Anna Kostreva
…his outsider position, working predominantly through architectural drawings rather than buildings.[2] In this way, the project stands as a self-narration, which I find a most incredible tool for architecture, and…
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