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1328 texts about architecture in drawings, models and photography. 791 writers on 889 architects.
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The Master Builder: William Butterfield and His Times
27.03.2025

The Master Builder: William Butterfield and His Times27.03.2025

– Nicholas Ray

…to pore over the originals in detail. Nicholas Olsberg’s recent book The Master Builder: William Butterfield and His Times more than passes both these tests. He writes with compelling enthusiasm about…

presentation domestic religion education construction drawing

Lauretta Vinciarelli: Homogeneous and Non-Homogeneous Grids
11.03.2021

Lauretta Vinciarelli: Homogeneous and Non-Homogeneous Grids11.03.2021

– Rebecca Siefert

…Press, 1986), p.158. Ibid. Jacques Derrida, ‘Semiology and Grammatology: Interview with Julia Kristeva’, in The Routledge Language and Cultural Theory Reader, edited by Lucy Burke, Tony Crowley and Alan Girvin…

theoretical & imaginary urban form DMC projection (axonometric isometric) competition

Pan Scroll Zoom 17: Monadnock
01.09.2021

Pan Scroll Zoom 17: Monadnock01.09.2021

– Job Floris and Fabrizio Gallanti

…wider audience. The more interesting question is how much of the past should resonate? Both Sandor Naus, the other co-founder of Monadnock, and I studied at an academy of fine…

education Pan Scroll Zoom (series)

­­­Constant’s Ladders as Mythic Entity
22.04.2024

­­­Constant’s Ladders as Mythic Entity22.04.2024

– Alison Bartlett

…under the hypnotic power of myth, the sign is dislocated from its original symbolic order and proceeds to endure a series of mutations that deny historical continuity and favour a…

DMC Open Call: Storytellers, Observed Observed sketch theoretical & imaginary

Drawing the Curtain: Entangling rendering and theatrical space
02.02.2021

Drawing the Curtain: Entangling rendering and theatrical space02.02.2021

– Thomas Hutton

…make things more complicated still, digital drawing tools have now evolved to disguise themselves almost without detection. They can render the effects of lenses, they can render the lens itself,…

theatre drawing matter writing prize 2020 DMC

Learning from the Tortoise
09.08.2019

Learning from the Tortoise09.08.2019

– William Firebrace

…it arrives sooner than the hare – or according to the even older paradox of Zeno it always arrives before the mighty runner Achilles. Slowness is usually seen as a…

theoretical & imaginary construction drawing plan section elevation humour & satire

Poetry and Architecture (2023) — Review
11.08.2023

Poetry and Architecture (2023) — Review11.08.2023

– Peter Carl

…perhaps columns of soldiers marching towards the vanishing point of a no-man’s land.’[19] An isometric does not, of course, have a vanishing-point; and, by extruding block solids through the voids…

Zünd-Up’s Great Vienna War of Dreams
14.03.2025

Zünd-Up’s Great Vienna War of Dreams14.03.2025

– Wouter Van Acker

…On June 28, 1969, the four members of the Viennese collective Zünd-Up presented their student project, The Great Vienna Auto-Expander, for Karl Schwanzer’s studio at the TH Wien.[2] Their proposal envisioned a monumental…

DMC theoretical & imaginary

Archives, or Ardor
26.10.2017

Archives, or Ardor26.10.2017

– Iris Moon

…worry if Agni is destroyed, since he is then in that yonder orb.’ Every construction is temporary, including the fire altar. It is not a fixed object, but a vehicle….

domestic interior DMC presentation

Tree Speech
07.11.2020

Tree Speech07.11.2020

– Sylvia Lavin

…Drawing Matter would like to thank the author and the journal’s editors for allowing us reproduce the essays on www.drawingmatter.org. To order a copy of Log 49, click here. In…

competition landscape urban form nature DMC

Painting Architecture in Early Renaissance Italy
05.06.2025

Painting Architecture in Early Renaissance Italy05.06.2025

– Peter Carl

…not exist in Renaissance culture—at least until the advent of the paragone debate. Accordingly, Lupi ‘aims to reorient the discussion away from perspective and pictorial space in order to emphasise artists’ engagement…

art practice interior

Resistance and the ‘Architecture of Pessimism’: John Hejduk’s House for the Inhabitant who Refused to Participate
05.08.2024

Resistance and the ‘Architecture of Pessimism’: John Hejduk’s House for the Inhabitant who Refused to Participate05.08.2024

– Anna Kostreva

…his outsider position, working predominantly through architectural drawings rather than buildings.[2] In this way, the project stands as a self-narration, which I find a most incredible tool for architecture, and…

theoretical & imaginary urban form DMC

The Order of Terror
28.09.2021

The Order of Terror28.09.2021

– Deanna Petherbridge

…emptiness; of order, disorder and the informal states of the in-between; what kinds of line or tones or colour relationships to develop; what referential language and vocabulary to play with…

art practice drawing as metaphor (series)

Alexander Brodsky: The Shed
18.05.2018

Alexander Brodsky: The Shed18.05.2018

Alexander Brodsky (1955), accompanying letter from Alexander Brodsky to Niall Hobhouse. DMC 2997.1. Alexander Brodsky (1955), Design for The Shed, 15 Biennale Di Venezia, 2016. Fibre tipped pen, ink and…

elevation exhibition design exhibition venice biennale (exhibition) DMC

Alternative Histories: EM2N on Alexander Brodsky
08.07.2019

Alternative Histories: EM2N on Alexander Brodsky08.07.2019

EM2N, Alexander Brodsky’s three plans, 2018. Polyester cube, light base, 185 × 177 × 275 mm. Alexander Brodsky (1955), Three Plans, 2016. Pencil on tracing paper, 485 × 320 mm….

alternative histories (project) DMC

Fernand Pouillon’s Survey of the Abbey of Le Thoronet
17.05.2021

Fernand Pouillon’s Survey of the Abbey of Le Thoronet17.05.2021

– Oscar Mather

…books, is his constant search for order in architecture, order as the backdrop, the setting for everyday life. The Cistercian order, to which the protagonist monk-master builder belongs, lived by…

survey

Elliott Glushak vs. The City of New York
27.01.2021

Elliott Glushak vs. The City of New York27.01.2021

– Philippa Lewis

…builder wants emphasized, and the overall effect which the architect or builder wants the rendering to achieve. The rendering, when completed, is given to the architect or builder by the…

art practice transport

Between the Layers: Transparent Paper as a Modernist Architectural Design Environment
06.01.2022

Between the Layers: Transparent Paper as a Modernist Architectural Design Environment06.01.2022

– Fabio Colonnese

…the wider context of related media, making reference to the methods of Modernist architects and photographers, filmmakers and video game designers. The notion is organised around the distinction between ‘literal…

DMC sketch plan

The Well-Constructed Joke: Comic Architecture
01.05.2024

The Well-Constructed Joke: Comic Architecture01.05.2024

– Holger Kleine

This article first appeared in German: ‘Der gut gebaute Witz’ in Der Architekt 4/21 ‘Effekt und Affekt, Psychologie in der Architektur’ (2021), 60-63. 18 September 2021 Kurt W. Forster writing to Holger…

theatre interior ornament

Entering the Imperial Palace
16.03.2022

Entering the Imperial Palace16.03.2022

– Will Jennings

…to his ankyloglossia (a shortened skin between his tongue and his mouth). His closest family member and confidant was his sister until he witnessed her murder at the hands of…

DMC theoretical & imaginary religion drawing matter writing prize 2021

The Pursuit of Gothic
10.11.2021

The Pursuit of Gothic10.11.2021

– Rosemary Hill

…Gothic was English and felt too passionate a commitment to the idea to look objectively at the evidence. Christopher Wren’s suggestion that it derived from Saracenic architecture and came to…

plan elevation detail religion DMC

Frank Lloyd Wright, House for Edith Carlson, 1939, Part II
07.11.2021

Frank Lloyd Wright, House for Edith Carlson, 1939, Part II07.11.2021

– Philippa Lewis

Extracted from Stories from Architecture: Behind the Lines at Drawing Matter by Philippa Lewis, published by MIT Press © 2021. Order the book here. The drawings around which Stories from Architecture are written are all part…

behind the lines (series) creative writing DMC

Simon Fraser University
01.02.2024

Simon Fraser University01.02.2024

– Arthur Erickson

…just under the latticed windows of the dormitories. With the full university community’s endorsement and under the stewardship of Herb Auerbach, sketch plans were drawn up as a basis for…

publication

Paul László: Hertz Fallout Shelter
31.08.2020

Paul László: Hertz Fallout Shelter31.08.2020

– Christine Bolli

…would find his way to Hollywood and its environs, though not before serving in World War II for his new country. In short order, he gained attention for his futuristic…

domestic military

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