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1329 texts about architecture in drawings, models and photography. 792 writers on 890 architects.
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Room at the Top?: Kate Macintosh, Denise Scott Brown and the Kingmaker-critic
07.03.2022

Room at the Top?: Kate Macintosh, Denise Scott Brown and the Kingmaker-critic07.03.2022

– Emily Dan

…delightfully sarcastic letter: Kate Macintosh (1937), Letter, Dawson’s Heights, Southwark, London, 1973. AJ Journal Archive (1929-2005); May 9, 1973, 19; Art & Architecture Archive pg. 1093. All subsequent publications of…

record

Hans van der Laan’s Instruments of Thought: Proportion, Architecture, Analogy (2025)
16.05.2025

Hans van der Laan’s Instruments of Thought: Proportion, Architecture, Analogy (2025)16.05.2025

– C.M. Howell

…Abbey St Benedcitusberg, Vaals, The Netherlands, c.1968. Print. © Van der Laan Archives, St-Benedictusberg Vaals. Perception Chapter 3 transitions into an argument for the practical value of Van der Laan’s…

presentation elevation projection (axonometric isometric)

‘Then There Was War’: John Hejduk’s Silent Witnesses as Nuclear Criticism
19.10.2022

‘Then There Was War’: John Hejduk’s Silent Witnesses as Nuclear Criticism19.10.2022

– Mark Dorrian

…advance, for no symbolic possibility – no pictures, artefacts, elements – outlasts it. Here perhaps is the final meaning of the casket as ark, archive, and archival destruction. This is a…

DMC exhibition design theoretical & imaginary exhibition

Porto: Paving Work on Rua de António Sardinha
14.02.2023

Porto: Paving Work on Rua de António Sardinha14.02.2023

– Ivo Poças Martins

…City Hall, with the Trinity Church in the background. Municipal Historical Archive of Porto. Mário Ramos and Fernando Barroso, collages from the project Insurrectional Organization of Space, 1975. DMC 3477.3.6….

exhibition politics DMC civic & municipal

Peter Wilson and Mark Dorrian in Conversation – Part 2
22.07.2024

Peter Wilson and Mark Dorrian in Conversation – Part 222.07.2024

– Mark Dorrian and Peter Wilson

…MD: I presume that as a national library there are major archival functions to deal with? PW: There’s a huge archive—the whole thing is built around a five-level bombproof box…

DMC

Writing Prize 2021: Savinien Petit’s Chapelle a deux salles avec luminaire
18.10.2021

Writing Prize 2021: Savinien Petit’s Chapelle a deux salles avec luminaire18.10.2021

– Raphael Haque

…Haque is an undergraduate architect at the Oxford School of Architecture. This text was selected as the winning entry in the Student Archive category of the Drawing Matter Writing Prize 2021….

section memorial & monument drawing matter writing prize 2021 DMC

Superstudio: Finding the Horizon
12.08.2021

Superstudio: Finding the Horizon12.08.2021

– Gian Piero Frassinelli

…fundamental. We relied on magazine illustrations, flicking for hours and hours through the image archive we had. Houses were a great help in finding the horizontal parallels that, converging on…

art practice autographicals (editorial project) DMC

Steeling Stirling & Gowan’s Isle of Wight House
28.07.2021

Steeling Stirling & Gowan’s Isle of Wight House28.07.2021

– Neil Jackson

…coals-to-Newcastle joke? Breuer’s Bi-Nuclear Plan reproduced in Peter Blake’s Marcel Breuer: Architect and Designer (1949); this copy belonged to James Gowan and is part of his archive at Drawing Matter….

DMC plan domestic

Startha Éagsula: Steve Larkin Architects on Walter Pichler
12.11.2020

Startha Éagsula: Steve Larkin Architects on Walter Pichler12.11.2020

– Steve Larkin

…the Irish Architectural Archive. Startha Éagsula / Alternative Histories is now available to purchase from Drawing Matter’s bookshop, here. Steve Larkin Architects, Walter Pichler’s pencil sketches, 2020. Friedrich Achleitner, when…

sketch plan art practice alternative histories (project) DMC

A Dose of Dosio
24.12.2019

A Dose of Dosio24.12.2019

– Laura Harty

…filigree pliability associated with its youth. This capacity to hide and to reveal complicates its designation in many archives as a secondary, ephemeral and notorious unstable medium. And so to…

DMC plan section survey civic & municipal religion

R. Norman Shaw
11.03.2018

R. Norman Shaw11.03.2018

– Andrew Saint

…31 letters from Shaw still preserved in the church’s archives is that rare piece of evidence, an architect’s first thoughts about his intentions. In January 1876 he wrote to F….

construction drawing plan DMC section elevation detail religion

Hans Poelzig: Der Golem
11.03.2021

Hans Poelzig: Der Golem11.03.2021

– Robert Wightman

…archive. Many gravitated towards the sketches of Álvaro Siza, however, I scurried towards the sketch above, excitement building with every step. Its effortless yet purposeful charcoal marks, a crescendo piece,…

theatre ephemeral architecture drawing matter writing prize 2020 DMC

Leicester Engineering Building: Under Construction
08.07.2021

Leicester Engineering Building: Under Construction08.07.2021

– James Gowan

…in the James Gowan archive, now part of the Drawing Matter Collection. The second post will be a companion to this one, and reproduces photographs of the completed Engineering Building;…

Peter Märkli: My Facade Material
21.04.2021

Peter Märkli: My Facade Material21.04.2021

– Editors

…untitled, 1977. Brass, edition 3/6, 300 × 100 × 70 mm. DMC 2976. Photographed on the wall of the Drawing Matter Archive, April 2021. Watch the full lecture below:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2g5581w8Js…

plan elevation concept & diagram art practice theoretical & imaginary DMC

Cedric Price: Urban Spaceman
22.03.2021

Cedric Price: Urban Spaceman22.03.2021

– Ana Bonet Miró

…violence in my twenty-one acres (…)’. [7] Robot doll shot, min 2:16, ‘London from the Air 1 (Fun Palace Outtakes), 1963; Joan Littlewood, 3 min, British Film Institute National Archive….

video DMC

Álvaro Siza: The Adoration of the Magi
19.01.2022

Álvaro Siza: The Adoration of the Magi19.01.2022

– António Choupina

…the latest placement of the columns at Shatwell. In a way, the pillars became allegorical visitors, permanently ador(n)ing the archive’s entrance and reconnecting it to the surrounding structures – lying…

sketch plan housing DMC

Cedric Price: Westal Market Stall Prototypes
01.03.2021

Cedric Price: Westal Market Stall Prototypes01.03.2021

– Editors

https://vimeo.com/513916960 The way I remember it, a couple of years after the transfer of the ownership of the major part of the paper archive (over which I had been involved,…

civic & municipal commerce video DMC

Hello Iwona
27.01.2021

Hello Iwona27.01.2021

– Hamish Lonergan

…in Drawing Matter’s online archive. No date, no caption. The greeting is enthusiastic enough to stop scrolling: ‘Hi there, James!!’ I think. But when I zoom in, it’s not him at…

sketch drawing matter writing prize 2020 DMC

Louis Le Vau: Château de Meudon
01.03.2018

Louis Le Vau: Château de Meudon01.03.2018

– Basile Baudez, Alexandre Cojannot and Alexandre Gady

…d’architecte au XVIIe siècle, Paris, 2017. This drawing by Le Vau is on loan to Dessiner pour Batir, on view at the Archives Nationales, Paris from 13 December 2017–12 March 2018….

DMC elevation presentation domestic

Zahalternative Histories: O’Donnell + Tuomey on Zaha Hadid
19.01.2021

Zahalternative Histories: O’Donnell + Tuomey on Zaha Hadid19.01.2021

– John Tuomey

…O’Donnell + Tuomey’s Alternative Histories model. This commentary is the first in a series organised by the Irish Architectural Archive. The series, Startha Eagsula Insights, continues on the IAA’s website….

DMC alternative histories (project)

In Search of an Honest Map
22.02.2021

In Search of an Honest Map22.02.2021

– Nicholas Herrmann

…Arndt’s colour plan for the exterior of the Bauhaus Masters’ Houses in Dessau, [1] and in Hugh Strange Architects’ designs for the Drawing Matter archive. James Stirling, Michael Wilford and…

urban form drawing matter writing prize 2020 DMC topographic/cartographic survey

Startha Éagsula: t o b Architect on James Gowan
03.12.2020

Startha Éagsula: t o b Architect on James Gowan03.12.2020

– Thomas O’Brien

…a companion catalogue to Alternative Histories (2019) and published to accompany the third installation of Alternative Histories at the Irish Architectural Archive. Startha Éagsula / Alternative Histories is now available…

alternative histories (project) DMC housing

Stories from Architecture: Behind the Lines at Drawing Matter
13.12.2021

Stories from Architecture: Behind the Lines at Drawing Matter13.12.2021

– Adrian Forty, Niall Hobhouse and Philippa Lewis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zN7scnCCJjo&t=344s This film was recorded in the Drawing Matter archive on the afternoon of Friday 28 November. It records a conversation between Philippa Lewis, Adrian Forty and Niall Hobhouse, about…

DMC behind the lines (series)

Time’s Witness. History in the Age of Romanticism (2021) – Review
25.07.2022

Time’s Witness. History in the Age of Romanticism (2021) – Review25.07.2022

– Martin Bressani

…the material of history was equally important as its written archive. This major shift in historical approach was largely brought about by antiquarians, a fluid class of connoisseurs and collectors…

nature DMC

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