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1329 texts about architecture in drawings, models and photography. 792 writers on 890 architects.
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Building as Drawing: The Cowshed (2021) at Shatwell Farm
07.07.2023

Building as Drawing: The Cowshed (2021) at Shatwell Farm07.07.2023

– Helen Thomas

…the archive room in that it includes a series of built and unbuilt commissions made for a landscape that is cultural, both conceptually and physically. The cowshed in this setting…

agriculture symposium april 2023 (series)

Notes on Urban Form
02.06.2025

Notes on Urban Form02.06.2025

– Editors and Ingrid Schroder

…of seminars to AA and LSE students around the topic of urban form. Niall had tempted me with the provision of fifty or so drawings from the archive, but I…

DMC theoretical & imaginary urban form

The Real and Imagined Worlds of Álvaro Siza
26.06.2020

The Real and Imagined Worlds of Álvaro Siza26.06.2020

– Bruno Silvestre

…and imaginary. When flicking through Siza’s sketchbooks in the archive of Drawing Matter (where Siza’s yellow columns mark the moment of arrival), one also comes across his moments of intimate…

sketch DMC

CP138 Gordon Matta-Clark: Readings of the Archive (2020) – Review
07.05.2022

CP138 Gordon Matta-Clark: Readings of the Archive (2020) – Review07.05.2022

– Penelope Curtis

The Gordon Matta-Clark archive arrived at the CCA in Montreal 20 years ago. Shortly thereafter, it was used as part of an ‘archival exercise’: Out of the Box: Price, Rossi, Stirling…

archives

Ian Hamilton Finlay at Drawing Matter
06.01.2025

Ian Hamilton Finlay at Drawing Matter06.01.2025

– Matt Page

…work at Drawing Matter comprises archives compiled by Christopher Mcintosh and David Thomas, and material—correspondence and drawings—by Peter Grant, one of Finlay’s many collaborators. The examples in this research guide…

art practice landscape DMC research guide collection guide

Remembering Architecture
18.10.2023

Remembering Architecture18.10.2023

– Fraser Stables

…choices could do some work in relation to the Drawing Matter archive. The selected images represent the breadth of the project—which both celebrates and unfolds aspects of architecture—and includes work…

domestic record interior

Dom Hans van der Laan: Drawing the Scottish Tartan
19.08.2019

Dom Hans van der Laan: Drawing the Scottish Tartan19.08.2019

– Caroline Voet

…© Van der Laan Archives, St-Benedictusberg Vaals. Dom Hans van der Laan (1904–1991), Pattern of the Douglas tartan, 1968. Ink on paper. © Van der Laan Archives, St-Benedictusberg Vaals. These…

religion Extracts: Women Writing Architecture plan projection (axonometric isometric) concept & diagram

Brunel’s Camera Lucida: A Closer Look
09.01.2025

Brunel’s Camera Lucida: A Closer Look09.01.2025

– Pablo Garcia

…will follow the Brunel Archive nomenclature, calling each sketchbook sheet ‘Folio’ and the number corresponding to the page number.   Diary of Marc Brunel, University of Bristol Archive DM1307/2. University of…

DMJ 2 – Drawing Instruments/Instrumental Drawings DMC

Sweet Disorder and the Carefully Careless: Ideas, Faces and Places (2022) – review
31.10.2022

Sweet Disorder and the Carefully Careless: Ideas, Faces and Places (2022) – review31.10.2022

– Eric Parry and Robin Webster

…Irish Architectural Archive, 2022. © Celia Scott. Françoise Choay, with Maxwell watercolours beyond, Sweet Disorder and the Carefully Careless: Ideas, Faces and Places, Irish Architectural Archive, 2022. © James Tuomey….

Return to the Archive
12.01.2024

Return to the Archive12.01.2024

– Hans-Dieter Nägelke

…archive for architecture with drawings, models, some old books and photographs. It is a huge room. Light comes from big windows from the left. Please imagine this archive being a lost…

theoretical & imaginary nature archives

Hugh Strange Architects: Drawing Matter Archive
02.10.2018

Hugh Strange Architects: Drawing Matter Archive02.10.2018

Hugh Strange (1969), Drawing Matter Archive, Somerset, 2012. Coloured pen on paper / photocopy of 1:20 model photograph. We worked on the design of the Drawing Matter Archive in Somerset…

exhibition record Buildings Projects at Shatwell Farm sketch presentation

Geoffrey Bawa: Drawing from the Archives (2023) — Review
08.03.2024

Geoffrey Bawa: Drawing from the Archives (2023) — Review08.03.2024

– Kathleen James-Chakraborty

…Colombo. © Dominic Sansoni. Spread from Geoffrey Bawa: Drawing from the Archives (2023), 12 – 13. Featuring Geoffrey Bawa, Preliminary sketches, Mangapwani Beach Hotel, Zanzibar, 1987. Ink on square-ruled paper….

section elevation Sri Lanka Bali

The ESB’s New Clothes
12.01.2023

The ESB’s New Clothes12.01.2023

– Colum O'Riordan

…Georgian sensibility on the site. In the latest, and last, tranche of the archives of Sam Stephenson – recently acquired by the Irish Architectural Archive – is a series of…

elevation competition record

For AP + AR
20.01.2025

For AP + AR20.01.2025

– Kirsty Badenoch

…by the author in the Ponis’s studio. I look up from the drawing at myself in the archive. AP looks down through circular glasses and six months of tracing paper…

topographic/cartographic landscape DMC

Curtains
28.03.2025

Curtains28.03.2025

– Petra Blaisse and Sophie Wehtje

…in the archive or serendipitously in other context of events we’d probably meet Major’s Tom’s fate—forever floating in the digital infinite sky of words and images…   The following list of…

sketch theoretical & imaginary

Broadcasting Norwegian Time
13.03.2025

Broadcasting Norwegian Time13.03.2025

– Jørgen J. Tandberg

…1937. NRK archives. Letter to the building committee from Fr. Crawfurd-Jensen. October 4, 1940. NRK archives. Letter from Fr. Crawfurd-Jensen to Holter and Overgaard, February 2, 1948. NRK archives. Letter…

urban form plan section elevation detail

The Cottage at Bromley
28.06.2021

The Cottage at Bromley28.06.2021

– Tim Anstey and Mari Lending

Enjoyable finds in archives often emerge between the lines. Inside RIBA Collections, which is organised to form a narrative celebrating architects and their works, we found a gem of modern…

domestic

Adolphe Appia: ‘Luminous – Very Luminous’
27.11.2019

Adolphe Appia: ‘Luminous – Very Luminous’27.11.2019

– Ross Anderson

…mm. Swiss Archive of the Performing Arts. II The major cache of Appia’s drawings dwell in the Swiss Archive of the Performing Arts, a modest cultural-philanthropic operation inconspicuously lodged in…

civic & municipal

Benjamin Wistar Morris and a new Metropolitan Opera House
10.06.2022

Benjamin Wistar Morris and a new Metropolitan Opera House10.06.2022

– Janet Parks

…may be dispersed among multiple archives and large archives often contain these types of drawings that form an in-depth record of architects’ efforts. Objects like these six drawings often are…

DMC presentation culture urban form theatre

Walter Pichler: 20 Sketches from the Archives
13.10.2015

Walter Pichler: 20 Sketches from the Archives13.10.2015

…Walter Pichler (1936–2012), Study sketch for the Underground City, 1960–1964. Pen and ink on wove paper, 210 × 297 mm. DMC 2327.49r. For more sketches from the Pichler archive, register…

domestic DMC sketch plan section elevation concept & diagram

Reflections on The Drawing Matter Archive
03.05.2022

Reflections on The Drawing Matter Archive03.05.2022

– Roz Barr, Jonah Ginsburg, Benjamin Machin and Sandra Porter

The following four texts reflect on connections to and interactions with Drawing Matter, on the ground or from afar. Central to each is the drawings collection at Shatwell Farm. Design…

DMC

Pan Scroll Zoom 4: Pezo von Ellrichshausen
18.11.2020

Pan Scroll Zoom 4: Pezo von Ellrichshausen18.11.2020

– Sofia von Ellrichshausen, Fabrizio Gallanti and Mauricio Pezo

…Courtesy of PVE archive. Pezo von Ellrichshausen, Guna House, Llacolen, Chile, 2013. Oil on canvas, 300 × 300 mm. Courtesy of PVE archive. FG: I am very intrigued by your…

projection (axonometric isometric) exhibition design art practice domestic Pan Scroll Zoom (series)

Peter Wilson and Mark Dorrian in Conversation – Part 1
20.06.2024

Peter Wilson and Mark Dorrian in Conversation – Part 120.06.2024

– Mark Dorrian and Peter Wilson

…project with Leon. Shortly afterwards I drew The Second London Fire project, which is now in the AA archive. It was a reaction to Leon’s Reconstruction of the European City…

theoretical & imaginary urban form DMC sketch

Goldfinger—Planning Your Neighbourhood
14.10.2024

Goldfinger—Planning Your Neighbourhood14.10.2024

– Erin McKellar

…While there is no evidence that Goldfinger saw the exhibition’s London showing in person, its screens appeared in Architects’ Journal in 1944 and Goldfinger’s archive contains photographs of each panel.[3]…

theoretical & imaginary urban form DMC presentation

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