1329 texts about architecture in drawings, models and photography.
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The Real and Imagined Worlds of Álvaro Siza
26.06.2020
The Real and Imagined Worlds of Álvaro Siza26.06.2020
…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…
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
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…
Ian Hamilton Finlay at Drawing Matter
06.01.2025
Ian Hamilton Finlay at Drawing Matter06.01.2025
…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…
Remembering Architecture
18.10.2023
Remembering Architecture18.10.2023
…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…
Dom Hans van der Laan: Drawing the Scottish Tartan
19.08.2019
Dom Hans van der Laan: Drawing the Scottish Tartan19.08.2019
…© 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…
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
…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…
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…
Geoffrey Bawa: Drawing from the Archives (2023) — Review
08.03.2024
Geoffrey Bawa: Drawing from the Archives (2023) — Review08.03.2024
…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….
The ESB’s New Clothes
12.01.2023
The ESB’s New Clothes12.01.2023
…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…
For AP + AR
20.01.2025
For AP + AR20.01.2025
…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…
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…
Broadcasting Norwegian Time
13.03.2025
Broadcasting Norwegian Time13.03.2025
…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…
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…
Adolphe Appia: ‘Luminous – Very Luminous’
27.11.2019
Adolphe Appia: ‘Luminous – Very Luminous’27.11.2019
…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…
Benjamin Wistar Morris and a new Metropolitan Opera House
10.06.2022
Benjamin Wistar Morris and a new Metropolitan Opera House10.06.2022
…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…
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…
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…
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…
Goldfinger—Planning Your Neighbourhood
14.10.2024
Goldfinger—Planning Your Neighbourhood14.10.2024
…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]…
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…
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