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Typology: A conversation
13.08.2025
Typology: A conversation13.08.2025
– Richard Hall, Hans van der Heijden and Andreas Lechner
In Spring 2025, Hans van der Heijden and Andreas Lechner corresponded about books which each had recently published that deal with the issue of ‘type’ and the role of drawing…
Marie-José Van Hee: Seeing not Showing
22.03.2021
Marie-José Van Hee: Seeing not Showing22.03.2021
Marie-José Van Hee (1950), House, c.1990. Graphite on tracing paper. © Marie-José Van Hee. ‘House’ by Marie-José Van Hee is drawn on a sheet of trace, the edge of which…
Besides, History (2018): Book Review
09.08.2021
Besides, History (2018): Book Review09.08.2021
…– David Van Severen The 2017 exhibition Besides, History at the Canadian Centre for Architecture juxtaposed works by architects Go Hasegawa and OFFICE/KGDVS (Kersten Geers and David van Severen) with drawings and…
Alternative Histories: Hans van der Heijden on Josef Hoffmann
14.02.2019
Alternative Histories: Hans van der Heijden on Josef Hoffmann14.02.2019
Hans van der Heijden Architect, Josef Hoffmann’s perspective sketch of a cottage, 2018. Medium-density fibreboard, 100 × 100 × 140 mm. Josef Hoffmann (1870–1956), perspective sketch, cottage, c.1900. Pencil on…
Alternative Histories: Bosshard, Tavor, van der Ploeg and Vihervaara on Bohdan Lachert
03.02.2019
Alternative Histories: Bosshard, Tavor, van der Ploeg and Vihervaara on Bohdan Lachert03.02.2019
…part becomes the whole, the building begins to conflate order and expression, billboard and duck, paper and architecture, post and office. – Matthew van der Ploeg, Li Tavor, Ani Vihervaara and…
Eurolandschaft Dérive
01.04.2018
Eurolandschaft Dérive01.04.2018
…– A Dérive, 1998. Mixed media, 185 × 240 mm. DMC 2945.7. In the intervening years, it has fallen under and out of the spotlight of theoretical coolness/interest. Peter Wilson…
DMJ – Riddle as Method, Transparency at Play: Aldo Van Eyck at Baambrugge
18.08.2025
DMJ – Riddle as Method, Transparency at Play: Aldo Van Eyck at Baambrugge18.08.2025
As work on site at the Orphanage (1956-1960) neared completion, Aldo van Eyck was busy exploring and expanding the reach of his ideas through a number of interlaced and mutually…
Wolkenbügel: El Lissitzky as Architect
02.09.2024
Wolkenbügel: El Lissitzky as Architect02.09.2024
– Richard Anderson and Markus Lähteenmäki
…(1967), 48. Ausstellung der November-Gruppe in den Räumen der Berliner Secession, Archiv der Deutschen Kunst (Berlin: K. Ullrich, 1925). Advertisement for the Werkstatt für Bildnis- u. technische Photographie C. J….
Derrida & Eisenman: Laugh(ing) of(f) the lyre
22.03.2021
Derrida & Eisenman: Laugh(ing) of(f) the lyre22.03.2021
…on paper, 28 × 22 mm. Peter Eisenman fonds Canadian Centre for Architecture © Estate of Jacques Derrida. ‘I think I understand, at least in principle.’ [1] Jacques Derrida tries…
Collection Guide: Zaha Hadid
15.12.2025
Collection Guide: Zaha Hadid15.12.2025
– Editors
…DMC 3000.13.1-6. Zaha Hadid, Private view invitation, Planetary Architecture, Van Rooy Gallery, Amsterdam, 1981. 105 × 145 mm. DMC 3000.12. Zaha Hadid, Private view invitation, Planetary Architecture, Van Rooy Gallery,…
Schmitz and Drévet: The Egyptian Pavilions at the 1867 ‘Exposition Universelle’
15.12.2023
Schmitz and Drévet: The Egyptian Pavilions at the 1867 ‘Exposition Universelle’15.12.2023
…glitter went, in the Champ-de-Mars, that they were leading the van rather than bringing up the rear of the march of Progress. […] The Egyptian Viceroy ventured on a bolder…
Materia: Render
12.04.2022
Materia: Render12.04.2022
…of render technology, in a bid to improve render’s longevity, mix synthetic acrylic polymers with cement, sand, and lime to create a surface that has high water resistance, flexibility, adhesion,…
Collection Guide: Andrea Branzi & Archizoom Associati
27.10.2025
Collection Guide: Andrea Branzi & Archizoom Associati27.10.2025
– Rosie Ellison-Balaam and Francesco Fiammenghi
…the modern movement and the will to overcome disciplinary boundaries. Within this broader tendency, Archizoom pursued a distinctive agenda that, despite resisting straightforward definitions, was often encapsulated in their formula…
The Improvising Bouwmeester,* or: How Raymaekers’ Buildings Got Built
05.12.2024
The Improvising Bouwmeester,* or: How Raymaekers’ Buildings Got Built 05.12.2024
– Arne Vande Capelle, Stijn Colon, Lionel Devlieger and James Westcott
The following text first appeared in Arne Vande Capelle, Stijn Colon, Lionel Devlieger, and James Westcott, Ad Hoc Baroque: Marcel Raymaekers’ Salvage Architecture in Postwar Belgium (Brussels: Rotor, 2023), 168, 174-178. *Master builder,…
Trees Move In
22.10.2020
Trees Move In22.10.2020
…Drawing Matter would like to thank the author and the journal’s editors for allowing us to reproduce the essays on www.drawingmatter.org. To order a copy of Log 49, click here….
Architecture and Real Abstraction: Adler & Sullivan
12.09.2023
Architecture and Real Abstraction: Adler & Sullivan12.09.2023
…between 1886 –1907, is not among the most impressive commercial projects of Adler & Sullivan. It was a cheap but experimental steel framing system on isolated footings, with an austere,…
Alternative Histories: Lilith Ronner van Hooijdonk on Edward Blore
29.07.2019
Alternative Histories: Lilith Ronner van Hooijdonk on Edward Blore29.07.2019
Lilith Ronner van Hooijdonk, Edward Blore’s elevations and ground plans for a pair of gothic structures, 2018. Plywood, paint, paper, profiled plastic, tape, branches, fabric, 3D-printed polyamide powder, 500 ×…
Alternative Histories: Marie-José Van Hee on Hans Hollein
14.02.2019
Alternative Histories: Marie-José Van Hee on Hans Hollein14.02.2019
Marie-José Van Hee, Hans Hollein’s sketch for City, Communication Interchange, 2018. Cardboard, 300 × 110 × 90 mm. Hans Hollein (1934–2014), City, Communication Interchange, c.1960. Red chalk on wove paper,…
The First Exercise, One Door and One Window
01.06.2023
The First Exercise, One Door and One Window01.06.2023
…four months, I spent my days at the university’s library looking at the usual suspects—Le Corbusier, Mies Van Den Rohe, Alvar Aalto, Luis Barragán, I razionalisti italiani, etc. I was…
Alberto Pérez-Gómez: Architecture as Drawing
28.07.2022
Alberto Pérez-Gómez: Architecture as Drawing28.07.2022
– Mark Dorrian and Alberto Pérez-Gómez
…original perception of the a priori order of reality. Thus the architect used images to embody a transcendental, abstract (geometrical) order, in accordance with the traditional Aristotelian hierarchy of places….
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
…This is clearly an ideal attitude for a teacher in order to encourage students to consider alternatives, although there comes a point in the practice of architecture where you have…
biq: Revealing Construction
26.05.2021
biq: Revealing Construction26.05.2021
…practice who explicitly espouse their interest in construction is biq, a Rotterdam practice headed by Rick Wessels and until 2014 Hans van der Heijden, who now continues to explore the theme…
Sigurd Lewerentz: Siting the Axonometric
17.11.2020
Sigurd Lewerentz: Siting the Axonometric17.11.2020
– Stan Allen
…into infinity,’ wrote El Lissitsky in his 1925 manifesto ‘K and Pangeometry’. Paintings and drawings by Theo van Doesburg and Cornelis van Eesteren, Herbert Bayer (and Lissitsky himself) are constructed on…
DMC projection (axonometric isometric)