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Zaha Hadid: Kurfürstendamm
8 March 2019
Zaha Hadid: Kurfürstendamm8 March 2019
Zaha Hadid (1950–2016), K 2 6 Preliminary study sketches (detail), 1988. Blue ink on post-it paper. DMC 3075.2. Zaha Hadid (1950–2016), K 2 6 Preliminary study sketches (detail), 1988. Blue…
John Hejduk’s Axonometric Degree Zero
23 September 2019
John Hejduk’s Axonometric Degree Zero23 September 2019
John Hejduk (1929–2000) and Stan Allen, Projection sketches, 1981. Ink on paper. Sometime in 1981, while I was working on my final thesis project at the Cooper Union, John Hejduk…
The Difficulty of Designing Furniture
7 November 2019
The Difficulty of Designing Furniture7 November 2019
Álvaro Siza (1933), Caderno 202 (April – May), 1985. Biro on paper, 297 × 210 mm. DMC 2546.41. I Architecture: a tree here, a house there, or a temple; on…
Geoffrey Goes to Basildon
10 October 2019
Geoffrey Goes to Basildon10 October 2019
Geoffrey Jellicoe (1900–1996), Motopia sketchbook, 1955–1956. Pen and ink. Adlwych notebook, 80 leaves lined paper, 183 × 83 mm. DMC 2876. Charley in New Town is the peerless Halas and Batchelor…
Tales from the crypt
18 October 2019
Tales from the crypt18 October 2019
The great mysteries are not the invisible things, but the visible ones. And to me, it is a great and fascinating mystery that the same architect, Giles Gilbert Scott, designed…
The Office Copier and Baptism by Colour: Working for Rossi in the 1990s
25 October 2019
The Office Copier and Baptism by Colour: Working for Rossi in the 1990s25 October 2019
Aldo made this drawing when the Bonnefanten Museum in Maastricht was already realised. I would say that it is typical for the kind of drawing he would make when he…
What Lies Beneath
31 October 2019
What Lies Beneath31 October 2019
‘The people of Sydney ought to be afraid of the sharks, but for some reason they do not seem to be,’ recalled Mark Twain in his 1897 Following the Equator. The…
Fontaine: Hide-and-Seek
1 November 2019
Fontaine: Hide-and-Seek1 November 2019
Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine (1762–1853), Drawing model for a Music Room, c.1803. Pen, ink and watercolour on paper, 120 × 185 × 144 mm. DMC 2081. Republished to celebrate the release of Architecture…
Giò Ponti: Plan chest designs, c.1955
7 November 2019
Giò Ponti: Plan chest designs, c.19557 November 2019
Giò Ponti (1891–1979), Plan chest designs. Pen on paper. DMC 2001.12. Giò Ponti, Plan chest designs, c.1955. Pen on paper. DMC 2001.14. Giò Ponti (1891–1979), Plan chest designs, c.1955. Pen…
Summerson: The Little House
4 March 2020
Summerson: The Little House4 March 2020
Eugène Viollet-le-Duc (1814–1879), Record drawings, Capital sculpture, Saint-Sauveur de Nevers, 1841–1848. Pencil on paper. DMC 1713.47. There is a kind of play common to nearly every child; it is to…
Take One: James Gowan and Sandra Lousada on the Leicester Engineering Building
6 March 2020
Take One: James Gowan and Sandra Lousada on the Leicester Engineering Building6 March 2020
Take One is a collaboration between Drawing Matter and the Architects’ Lives oral history project run by National Life Stories. Each episode pairs a drawing or visual element with a…
Gio Ponti: un disegno è un idea
7 October 2019
Gio Ponti: un disegno è un idea7 October 2019
– Niall Hobhouse
Giò Ponti (1981–1979), Un disegno e un idea, c.1930–1940. Pen and ink on thin laid paper, 278 × 217 mm. DMC 2835. Signora Onvoloni, here is a drawing that might…
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