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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
…Goodhard-Rendel, c. 1920. © Historic England Archive. St John’s Church, Birkby, Huddersfield, photograph by Smith Carter, c.1890. Courtesy of Kirklees Image Archive. Olsberg reveals the range of Butterfield’s output, even…
Shatwell Farm: Sheds and Silos
11.03.2024
Shatwell Farm: Sheds and Silos11.03.2024
…used for their original purpose. Niall explained this is because ‘we try to make everything here relate somehow to the archive…apart from the cows, because the cows came before us.’…
Simon Fraser University
01.02.2024
Simon Fraser University01.02.2024
This text is an excerpt from Arthur Erickson on Learning Systems, co-published by Concordia University Press and the Canadian Centre for Architecture where the Arthur Erickson Archive is held. The text is reproduced…
DMJ – Drawing Instruments from Sir John Soane’s Office
25.10.2023
DMJ – Drawing Instruments from Sir John Soane’s Office25.10.2023
…bills for drawing instruments survive in Soane’s archive, but two items at least we can be sure belonged to Soane himself. The first is a small shagreen-covered tapered pocket instrument…
Houses of Work and Play
30.03.2020
Houses of Work and Play30.03.2020
Álvaro Siza (1933), Faculty of Architecture at the University of Porto (FAUP), Portugal, 1985. Ink and pencil on paper. © Álvaro Siza Archive – Fundação Serralves, Oporto, Portugal. The Faculty…
Banham in Buffalo
13.05.2024
Banham in Buffalo13.05.2024
Reyner Banham (1922–1988), ‘Field notes’ on the Larkin Warehouse, Seneca Street, Buffalo, c.1977. Courtesy of the University at Buffalo University Archives. [Our] main emphasis in this course has been on…
Leonhard Lapin: Objects on the Beach
13.12.2019
Leonhard Lapin: Objects on the Beach13.12.2019
…50. Leonhard Lapin, Ando Keskküla. Näituse kataloog (Tallinn: ENSV Riiklik kunstimuuseum, 1986), unpaginated. Leonhard Lapin, Häppening Eestimaal – Valimik artikleid ja ettekandeid kunstist 1967–1977. Manuscript in Leonhard Lapin’s archive (Tallinn: 1977), p. 14….
Masterplanning the University of London
27.03.2024
Masterplanning the University of London27.03.2024
…acquired for the University’s archive, the plan is decidedly old-fashioned, its style entirely in keeping with the classical porticos found on both the British Museum to the south and UCL’s…
Startha Éagsula: Elizabeth Hatz on Frank Lloyd Wright
29.10.2020
Startha Éagsula: Elizabeth Hatz on Frank Lloyd Wright29.10.2020
…published to accompany the third installation of Alternative Histories at the Irish Architectural Archive. Startha Éagsula / Alternative Histories is now available to purchase from Drawing Matter’s bookshop, here. Back…
Construct
13.03.2023
Construct13.03.2023
…for Manhattan (New York: Monacelli Press, 1978). Ibid. Elia Zenghelis and Rem Koolhaas, lecture on ‘OMA projects’ (London: Architectural Association, 1976). Courtesy of AA Archives. MoMA. Hamed Khosravi, Do You…
What’s a Bludder Sketch?
28.02.2022
What’s a Bludder Sketch?28.02.2022
Bengt Lindroos (1918–2010), sketch showing an imaginary scene of Lindroos’ studio working on the Södermalm masterplan, 1981. ArkDes Archive, Stockholm. As a timid foreigner in the Swedish Centre for Architecture…
Henry van de Velde and a Monument to Nietzsche
13.11.2019
Henry van de Velde and a Monument to Nietzsche13.11.2019
…meet the huge cost, he foresaw that ‘we will have something superb and timeless.’ [2] Nietzsche’s sister, Elisabeth Förster, selected land adjoining the Nietzsche Archive in Weimar. This was too…
Drawings in Conversation
01.09.2017
Drawings in Conversation01.09.2017
Charles Robert Cockerell (1788–1863), view of courtyard, Competition entry for the Royal Exchange, 1838. Lithograph, 293 × 420 mm. Courtesy London Metropolitan Archives. C. R. Cockerell, Joseph Gwilt and the…
The MARS Group’s Plan for London, 1933-1944
08.03.2021
The MARS Group’s Plan for London, 1933-194408.03.2021
…and is based on research conducted between October 2018 and August 2019 in the gta archives at ETH in Zürich and the archives of the AA and RIBA in London….
Surface-oriented
18.12.2019
Surface-oriented18.12.2019
…door, whilst the owner of the writing table can conceal within its orderly divisions a personal archive far more reliable than the dusty drawers of memory will allow. Calvino’s desk,…
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
…venue; timber structure will be salvaged for integration into their new venue as interior finishing, 1965. Copyright: Archive Ludo Smolders. From 1965 to 1971, Raymaekers—who was unlicensed—collaborated with the architect…
Gio Ponti: ‘Come for Porchetta’
23.08.2019
Gio Ponti: ‘Come for Porchetta’23.08.2019
…even the Queen of England. An Italian archive of his correspondence, both sent and received, contains more than 99,000 letters exchanged with over 6,400 recipients. ‘My happiness, my love, my…
Alexander Brodsky
15.10.2016
Alexander Brodsky15.10.2016
…They all draw and archive the objects and spaces they discover in these buildings, and reassemble them like an archeologist reassembles what he excavates: a room, a space, a bench,…
Alternative Histories: Veldwerk Architecten on Gabriel Pierre Martin Dumont
31.07.2019
Alternative Histories: Veldwerk Architecten on Gabriel Pierre Martin Dumont31.07.2019
…finds its origins in a historic drawing from the Drawing Matter archive. Gabriel Dumont’s section of a theatre auditorium and balcony seating, drawn c.1770, proposes a structure that holds the…
Malagueira and Évora, Portugal
19.09.2016
Malagueira and Évora, Portugal19.09.2016
– Cathy Hawley and Hugh Strange
…than precise sites. In many instances this lead on from the research the students had been doing individually and the pieces they had selected and responded to from the Archive….
Superstudio: Monument Interrupted
31.08.2020
Superstudio: Monument Interrupted31.08.2020
…and who architecture is for. I had not seen the sketchbook pages made by Adolfo Natalini in 1969 that are included in the Drawing Matter archive before, and I had…
Startha Éagsula: Grafton Architects on Paulo Mendes da Rocha
20.10.2020
Startha Éagsula: Grafton Architects on Paulo Mendes da Rocha20.10.2020
– Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara
…the Irish Architectural Archive. Startha Éagsula / Alternative Histories is now available to purchase from Drawing Matter’s bookshop, here. Grafton Architects, Paulo Mendes da Rocha’s drawing for the Capela de…
High Ground
19.09.2016
High Ground19.09.2016
– Colette Sheddick and Pierre d'Avoine
…Hadspen to study the Malagueira archive. The major design project encompassed the design of buildings, infrastructure and an attitude to ordering the landscape, with an emphasis on visionary environmental scenarios and…
BV Doshi: Drawn Closer
23.04.2020
BV Doshi: Drawn Closer23.04.2020
– Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi and Sarah Handelman
…and drawing for the Open Hand Monument in the Drawing Matter Archive, 2019. Photograph. Photo Guus Kaandorp.. This interview was done in collaboration with Khushnu Panthaki Hoof. Drawn Closer is…
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