Remembering Architecture
18 October 2023
Remembering Architecture18 October 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…
On Tony Fretton and the Lisson Gallery
5 February 2021
On Tony Fretton and the Lisson Gallery5 February 2021
…I think there is a long recorded interview we have in the archive, which neither of them have published, if I remember rightly. Niall Hobhouse: You already had Bell Street…
Cartographies of the Imagination
4 June 2021
Cartographies of the Imagination4 June 2021
– Kirsty Badenoch and Sayan Skandarajah
…and subsequent visits to the archive, alongside discussions with the Drawing Matter team helped shape and form what exactly Cartographies of the Imagination meant for us. We knew that we…
CP138 Gordon Matta-Clark: Readings of the Archive (2020) – Review
7 May 2022
CP138 Gordon Matta-Clark: Readings of the Archive (2020) – Review7 May 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…
Dom Hans van der Laan: Drawing the Scottish Tartan
19 August 2019
Dom Hans van der Laan: Drawing the Scottish Tartan19 August 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 October 2022
Sweet Disorder and the Carefully Careless: Ideas, Faces and Places (2022) – review31 October 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….
Geoffrey Bawa: Drawing from the Archives (2023) — Review
8 March 2024
Geoffrey Bawa: Drawing from the Archives (2023) — Review8 March 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….
Hugh Strange Architects: Drawing Matter Archive
2 October 2018
Hugh Strange Architects: Drawing Matter Archive2 October 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…
Return to the Archive
12 January 2024
Return to the Archive12 January 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…
The ESB’s New Clothes
12 January 2023
The ESB’s New Clothes12 January 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…
Adolphe Appia: ‘Luminous – Very Luminous’
27 November 2019
Adolphe Appia: ‘Luminous – Very Luminous’27 November 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…
The Real and Imagined Worlds of Álvaro Siza
26 June 2020
The Real and Imagined Worlds of Álvaro Siza26 June 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…
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