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1328 texts about architecture in drawings, models and photography. 792 writers on 890 architects.
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Two Way Traffic: Japanese Woodblock Prints
12.10.2022

Two Way Traffic: Japanese Woodblock Prints12.10.2022

– Alex Faulkner

…from Enlightenment Europe stressed technological advances, particularly optical instruments. Of these, stereoscopes and mechanical devices, European vues d’optique, were popular. In the 1770s, Utagawa Toyoharu (the artist and founder of…

commerce

In the Archive: Abattoirs, Boucheries, and Slaughterhouses
31.03.2025

In the Archive: Abattoirs, Boucheries, and Slaughterhouses31.03.2025

– Rosie Ellison-Balaam

…sur la Place ditte de la Boucherie, c.1783. Pen, ink and wash on two joined sheets of laid paper, watermarked: ‘Vanderley’, 370 × 915 mm. DMC 2592. Paul Piot (1808–1864),…

plan DMC elevation presentation theoretical & imaginary

Drawing Powers 3: The Drawing in the Object
02.11.2021

Drawing Powers 3: The Drawing in the Object02.11.2021

– Fernando Poeiras

…now consider drawing styles and drawing crafts. They are means of formal and material organisation that allow the broadening of perception and sensitivity and reveal new ways of understanding and…

DMC

Ugliness and Judgment
19.04.2019

Ugliness and Judgment19.04.2019

– Timothy Hyde

John Wood, survey showing the rectilinear forms and measurements used to derive the outlines of the irregular stones at Stonehenge, 1747. In the summer of 1740, John Wood the Elder…

topographic/cartographic survey publication memorial & monument plan

A Short History of Alberto Ponis on the Sardinian Coast
15.11.2021

A Short History of Alberto Ponis on the Sardinian Coast15.11.2021

– Sebastiano Brandolini

…in order to draw out their hidden truth; and building direct and deeply rooted links between his architecture and the environment. He made no distinction between the site and his…

plan elevation projection (axonometric isometric) topographic/cartographic housing nature sketch DMC

The Rural Homes of Marcelo Ferraz and Francisco Fanucci
13.12.2021

The Rural Homes of Marcelo Ferraz and Francisco Fanucci13.12.2021

– Abilio Guerra

…whitewashed wall spliced to the dividing wall can be seen on this side, a kind of white horizontal blade that slowly vanishes from the bottom-up until it is gone, in…

section elevation housing landscape sketch plan

Vitruvius: Follow the Footprints
07.12.2020

Vitruvius: Follow the Footprints07.12.2020

– Paul Emmons

…walk toward the vanishing point of the plan, they would arrive at the seaside city in the distance. Finally, several ships are sailing away from the city in open waters…

DMC plan

Library of Babel
29.06.2020

Library of Babel29.06.2020

– James White

…technology. In light of this, one could ponder what the wider implications of a device that can create space beyond what we know, and one could even posit that LIDAR…

Buildings Projects at Shatwell Farm survey interior

Dissecting
25.07.2017

Dissecting25.07.2017

– Andrew Clancy

…streets. It includes acts of maintenance and conservation, alongside vandalism and demolition, and even temporary constructions which last only for brief periods of time. A single street or space might…

urban form public space architectural drawing summer school DMC sketch elevation projection (axonometric isometric) civic & municipal

Pan Scroll Zoom 13: Tatiana Bilbao
01.06.2021

Pan Scroll Zoom 13: Tatiana Bilbao01.06.2021

– Tatiana Bilbao and Fabrizio Gallanti

…was still to be filled in when the pandemic began. It started to capture their interpretations of the place but was still under development. In addition to engaging with the…

education Pan Scroll Zoom (series)

Johan Celsing Buildings Texts (2021) – Review
06.12.2022

Johan Celsing Buildings Texts (2021) – Review06.12.2022

– Nina Lundvall

…Copies of the publication can be purchased here.  Nina Lundvall is an architect, co-founder of Nina James Architects and leader of a masters design unit at the University of Nottingham….

Sant’Elia and Global Futurist Architecture
21.07.2023

Sant’Elia and Global Futurist Architecture21.07.2023

– Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

…(Antonio Sant’Elia) to Luigi Sant’Elia from Como and Cristina Panzilla from Caserta (Naples). He studies in Como, first at technical schools then at the Scuola Castellini. A master builder at…

catalogue Italy Futurism theoretical & imaginary DMC translation

Materia 4: Brick
10.01.2023

Materia 4: Brick10.01.2023

– Gordon Shrigley

…brick. I refer the reader to my previous Drawing Matter article on the rendered wall: https://drawingmatter.org/materia-render/. The Monadnock and Kearsage building, Chicago, designed by architects Daniel Hudson Burnham and John Wellborn…

materia (editorial series)

Pan Scroll Zoom 9: The Screen ClassRooms
19.03.2021

Pan Scroll Zoom 9: The Screen ClassRooms19.03.2021

– Anuj Daga

…No longer may the teachers demand the attentiveness, presence and alertness that traditionally has been expected of the bodies of the students. Students can now lounge, stroll, wander, eat, sleep,…

Pan Scroll Zoom (series)

In the Archive: de la Fuente, Unknown, OMA, Ellwood and Ponis
15.02.2023

In the Archive: de la Fuente, Unknown, OMA, Ellwood and Ponis15.02.2023

– Sarah Hearne

…as part of their research. I first found myself at Drawing Matter to view the voiles produced by the Chilean architect Jullian de la Fuente under the direction of Le…

DMC

Web of Intrigue
03.04.2020

Web of Intrigue03.04.2020

– Michael Webb

…among trees. There is a flying object present in the drawing which is either a giant bird or a glider somewhat reminiscent of those designed and flown by Otto Lilienthal…

topographic/cartographic presentation theoretical & imaginary domestic landscape

Behind the Lines 10
19.06.2019

Behind the Lines 1019.06.2019

– Philippa Lewis

…of the £1000 All British House competition, The Builder, 1932. Rose and Abram, ‘third premiated design’, £1000 All British House, The Builder, 1932. When Samuel Hardy turned over the page…

plan competition presentation exhibition behind the lines (series) creative writing DMC

Guy Debord
07.06.2017

Guy Debord07.06.2017

– Anthony Vidler

…http://www.bmlisieux.com/ 6. Guy Debord, ‘Theory of the Dérive,’ in Liero Andreotti and Xavier Costa, eds., Theory of the Dérive and Other Situationist Writings on the City (Barcelona: Museum of Contemporary Art of…

urban form DMC topographic/cartographic publication art practice

The Wobbly Line: Asplund, Johansson and the Influence of Tessenow in Sweden 1915–1925
27.07.2020

The Wobbly Line: Asplund, Johansson and the Influence of Tessenow in Sweden 1915–192527.07.2020

– Jan Rydén

…trade journal Byggmästaren (The Master-Builder). It is part of a presentation of a new three-storey house by the architect Cyrillus Johansson. To illustrate his text the architect has included photos and a…

publication domestic religion urban form

Pan Scroll Zoom 15: Other Architects
07.07.2021

Pan Scroll Zoom 15: Other Architects07.07.2021

– Fabrizio Gallanti, Grace Mortlock and David Neustein

…technology and to figure out how we could actually make it work for us, in order to reframe the terms of engagement.  David Neustein: We made a big gamble because…

memorial & monument Pan Scroll Zoom (series)

Retail Therapy
30.03.2020

Retail Therapy30.03.2020

– A. Trystan Edwards

Alexander Scott Carter (1881–1968), competition design for a double-fronted shop for W.H.Smith, c.1910. Encil and watercolour on thick wove paper, 560 × 777 mm. DMC 2168. Alexander Scott Carter (‘ALEX’)…

elevation presentation commerce DMC

Flores & Prats Sala Beckett International Drama Centre (2020): Review & Excerpts
30.03.2021

Flores & Prats Sala Beckett International Drama Centre (2020): Review & Excerpts30.03.2021

– Helen Thomas

…order to be able to connect with that moment that most interested us about the former cooperative, in order to build our own version of its history, which was to…

topographic/cartographic record theatre

On Cornices, Part I
17.06.2019

On Cornices, Part I17.06.2019

– Emma Letizia Jones

…the architect wrote an unpublished text titled ‘Das Princip der Kunst in der Architektur’ (‘The Principle of Art in Architecture’), in which he spoke of the necessity of all works…

detail presentation domestic construction drawing Extracts: Women Writing Architecture section DMC elevation

A Dose of Dosio
24.12.2019

A Dose of Dosio24.12.2019

– Laura Harty

…its surface in order to render it translucent, and the use of oiled paper in the Dosio album indicates that these drawings are tracings. [3] In order to follow this, one must…

section survey civic & municipal religion DMC plan

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