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Peter Märkli: My Facade Material

Peter Märkli: My Facade Material

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…

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

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

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….

An Artist Browsing the Collection

An Artist Browsing the Collection

Sandra Porter

Sandra Porter, Cowshed, 2022. Intaglio print with indian ink, 760 × 1120 mm. Courtesy of the artist. My visits to the archive happened during the summer of 2021 in a…

The I’Ansons: A Dynasty of London Architects & Surveyors

The I’Ansons: A Dynasty of London Architects & Surveyors

Peter Jefferson Smith

…still in the Portland archives and tell us much about his early work and clients. [1] The late 1870s and early 80s saw both the I’Ansons working on a quartet…

Superstudio: Finding the Horizon

Superstudio: Finding the Horizon

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…

Leicester Engineering Building: Under Construction

Leicester Engineering Building: Under Construction

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;…

Steeling Stirling & Gowan’s Isle of Wight House

Steeling Stirling & Gowan’s Isle of Wight House

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….

Stories from Architecture: Behind the Lines at Drawing Matter

Stories from Architecture: Behind the Lines at Drawing Matter

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…

Postmodern Australia: Robert Pearce’s Drawings for Edmond and Corrigan

Postmodern Australia: Robert Pearce’s Drawings for Edmond and Corrigan

Yvette Putra

Archives, Melbourne, 006.2017.0002. © Anne Shearman. The fashion illustrator Robert Pearce – who had, as per Corrigan, ‘a highly personal and evocative flash-trash graphic style’ – made, while in Edmond…

Álvaro Siza: The Adoration of the magi

Álvaro Siza: The Adoration of the magi

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…

Montage-Entourage; Or The Politics Of The Seam

Montage-Entourage; Or The Politics Of The Seam

Michael Young

…that certain things in the profane realm are valorised and enter the cultural archive, while certain cultural works are devalorized and enter the profane realm.’ [11] This process of creating…

What’s a Bludder Sketch?

What’s a Bludder Sketch?

Declan Quirke

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…