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Read Tess McCann’s text on the This is Tomorrow exhibition (Drawing: Erno Goldfinger (1902-1987), Final layout plan for the ‘This is tomorrow’ exhibition, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1956. RIBA Collections, RIBA30287).

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Drawing Matter News and Events

Five works from the Drawing Matter Collection are included in the exhibition Crude Hints (Towards), curated by Charlotte Edey at Frieze, No. 9 Cork Street (28 November – 13 December 2025).


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Drawings by Álvaro Siza from the Drawing Matter Collection are reproduced in Lost Causes, curated by João Manuel Miranda and Tiago Antero at Fundação Marques da Silva (Porto) (21 November 2025 – 21 February 2026)

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Thank you to everyone who joined us for the exhibition Tony Fretton: Everything I Saw Became Important on 8 & 9 November. A recording of the conversation between Tony Fretton and Benjamin Machin is now available to watch here.

More information about the exhibition can be found here.
Tomas Schmit’s two new ways to draw a circle (1971) [DMC 2230] is featured on the cover of the November issue of The Architectural Review, dedicated to the AR‘s Emerging Architects awards.


Read more about Schmit’s drawing here.

Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown (1716–1783), Proposed design for a bridge, Syon Park, c.1754–57. Ink and wash on laid paper, 500 × 700 mm. DMC 3960.2.

Collection Guides

The Viennese School at Drawing Matter
Andrea Branzi and Archizoom Associati at Drawing Matter

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Shatwell Farm

Find an archive of the building projects and interventions at Shatwell Farm, Somerset, Drawing Matter’s home from 2014 – 2024, here.

The Shatwell Valley. Photos: Sue Barr.
The Drawing Matter Archive at Shatwell Farm and grain silos.