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Fernand Pouillon’s Survey of the Abbey of Le Thoronet
17.05.2021
Fernand Pouillon’s Survey of the Abbey of Le Thoronet17.05.2021
…at ETH Zurich. This drawing material is, however, almost solely limited to orthographic documentation – plans, elevations and sections – and there is no archive of sketches, exploratory drawings, perspectives,…
68½ degrees, Sverre Fehn and the Nordic Pavilion: Review & Excerpt
26.05.2021
68½ degrees, Sverre Fehn and the Nordic Pavilion: Review & Excerpt26.05.2021
…from the Archives by Mari Lending and Erik Langdalen, click here. Niall Hobhouse is the Director of Drawing Matter. Excerpt from the book Sverre Fehn, ‘Pavillon nordique à Venise’, competition…
Aldo Rossi: Dieses Ist Lange Her/ora Questo e Perduto
09.09.2022
Aldo Rossi: Dieses Ist Lange Her/ora Questo e Perduto09.09.2022
…project for the divulgation of the geography, the cities and architecture of the equatorial Andes. This text was submitted to the General Archive category of the Drawing Matter Writing Prize 2021….
The Ulysses Project: Architecture and the City through James Joyce’s Dublin: Part II
17.06.2022
The Ulysses Project: Architecture and the City through James Joyce’s Dublin: Part II17.06.2022
…Architectural Archive, Dublin, until 19 August 2022. The exhibition is part of Ulysses100, an international programme of events celebrating 100 years since the publication of the novel. Houses, lines of houses,…
Opportunism
02.06.2022
Opportunism02.06.2022
– Richard Hall and Emma Rutherford
…London (1976). Courtesy of AA Archives. Conversation between Stefano de Martino and Richard Hall, November 2021. ‘The Sparkling Metropolis’, Guggenheim, New York (1978). See also various discussions on the exhibition…
Drawing as Signature: Paul Rudolph and the Perspective Section
12.12.2024
Drawing as Signature: Paul Rudolph and the Perspective Section12.12.2024
…The original of the image depicted here is in the collection of Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library. Paul Rudolph, ‘From Conception to Sketch to Rendering to Building,’ Paul Rudolph…
The Manufacture of Architecture: Joseph Paxton and the Development of the Great Stove
09.11.2023
The Manufacture of Architecture: Joseph Paxton and the Development of the Great Stove09.11.2023
…collection catalogue. About Hugh Strange studied architecture at Edinburgh University, graduating in 1994, and established his London-based practice, Hugh Strange Architects, in 2011. The practice designed the Archive building for…
Guy Debord—An Art of War
29.11.2023
Guy Debord—An Art of War29.11.2023
– Laurence Le Bras and Emmanuel Guy
…an intact fragment into a new creation, or modifying a word, a frame, or a speech-bubble in an existing work. Guy Debord’s archives reflect this work: firstly through the reading-sheets,…
Aqueduct of Malagueira—Complexity or Contradiction
10.01.2024
Aqueduct of Malagueira—Complexity or Contradiction10.01.2024
…rhetoric. Based on an array of primary source materials from Drawing Matter’s Álvaro Siza archive, mostly unpublished—48 sketchbooks, 110 project drawings and 560 photographs—this analysis seeks to build a new…
OMA: Big Competitions—Reorienting the Modern Project
29.08.2024
OMA: Big Competitions—Reorienting the Modern Project29.08.2024
…standing, free and outside the Doxa!’ — Georges Heintz Transcript click here. OMA, Programme Scenario Diagrams for ZKM, 1990-91 © Marion Goerdt’s personal archive. ‘I was basically involved in the…
Helmut Jacoby: The Amon Carter Museum
22.03.2024
Helmut Jacoby: The Amon Carter Museum22.03.2024
Helmut Jacoby, Rendering of the main gallery of the Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, 1960. Pen and ink. A1999.028, Amon Carter Museum of American Art Archives, Fort Worth, Texas….
The GSD Sketching Group and the Call for Sketchbooks Exhibition
03.06.2024
The GSD Sketching Group and the Call for Sketchbooks Exhibition03.06.2024
…We enjoy self-expression in any form it might take.’ In April 2023, we co-hosted an ‘archives party’ with Special Collections Curator Ines Zalduendo at the Harvard GSD’ s Frances Loeb…
On the Street
14.06.2024
On the Street14.06.2024
…is also the Keeper of Meaning at The Cosmic House in London as well as the founder and editor of the online design writing archive readingdesign.org. He lives in London….
Drawing Without Erasing
21.10.2024
Drawing Without Erasing21.10.2024
…paper, and in this sense, they are the direct visual representation of conversations and exchanges like this. Sometimes, they are simply scanned and archived; they comprise a more private, intimate…
DMJ – Five Episodes from the History of Drawing Instruments
14.11.2024
DMJ – Five Episodes from the History of Drawing Instruments14.11.2024
…My thanks to Julie Crocker, Senior Archivist, Royal Archives, for her observations on the manuscripts. John R. Milburn, ‘Adams family (per. 1734–1817), The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 3 January 2008…
Drawing as Travelogue
27.12.2024
Drawing as Travelogue27.12.2024
– Beth George and Emerald Wise
…moved over the drawn field as a site, layering together three spatial and temporal locales: Shatwell Farm and the archive, Palermo city—both what was visible from our apartment and our…
The Renewal of Dwelling (2023) – Review
13.11.2023
The Renewal of Dwelling (2023) – Review13.11.2023
…distinct geographical realities, the book ultimately works best as an open archive of case studies approached individually and randomly, that is, outside the explicit framework of the book. The editors…
Léa Guillotin and Michael Becker
19.12.2024
Léa Guillotin and Michael Becker19.12.2024
…and its own curious character. Though separated by great swathes of empty paper these fragments of the farm are seemingly not autonomous. Rather, like the other inhabitants of the archive…
DMJ – Something in the Air: On the Atmosphere of a Lee Miller Photograph
16.01.2025
DMJ – Something in the Air: On the Atmosphere of a Lee Miller Photograph16.01.2025
Lee Miller, Humphrey Jennings (1944). © Lee Miller Archives, England 2025. All rights reserved www.leemiller.co.uk. Frontispieces are to do with storytelling and we find a curious example of this at…
Elizabeth Chesterton & Tomorrow Town: A New Town Thesis by Architectural Association Students
10.03.2025
Elizabeth Chesterton & Tomorrow Town: A New Town Thesis by Architectural Association Students10.03.2025
In 1999, I was an undergraduate at Edinburgh University studying Architectural History when I undertook a work placement at the university archives. Here I was asked to help organise an…
Leicester Engineering Building: Un-detailing
21.03.2025
Leicester Engineering Building: Un-detailing21.03.2025
…good deal of the bloody-minded élan and sheer zing of the pioneer modernism of the early Twenties. […] Leicester Engineering Building at night. Photograph from James Gowan archives at Drawing…
Haunted Venice
21.02.2025
Haunted Venice21.02.2025
…tell if there are any remaining weak spots. On Sunday 2 March 2025, Mark West will be delivering a drawing workshop at the Drawing Matter Archive. Find full details here….
Name(r)s of the Animals and Drawers
24.03.2025
Name(r)s of the Animals and Drawers24.03.2025
…the tendency to ‘claim’, ‘save’ and ‘archive’ things, relations, forms, styles that can be catalogued and filed under proper significations and abandon the ones that cannot be? Do they declare…
Notes on the 2020 Summer School: Encounters in landscape
18.05.2021
Notes on the 2020 Summer School: Encounters in landscape18.05.2021
– Marwa El Mubark
…Hugh Strange’s Drawing Matter Archive and silo library conversion as sources of built inspiration, we came to understand architecture and the vernacular not simply as an aesthetic but as a…
architectural drawing summer school