Peter Märkli: My Facade Material
21 April 2021
Peter Märkli: My Facade Material21 April 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…
Writing Prize 2021: Savinien Petit’s Chapelle a deux salles avec luminaire
18 October 2021
Writing Prize 2021: Savinien Petit’s Chapelle a deux salles avec luminaire18 October 2021
…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
3 May 2022
An Artist Browsing the Collection3 May 2022
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
30 November 2021
The I’Ansons: A Dynasty of London Architects & Surveyors30 November 2021
…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
12 August 2021
Superstudio: Finding the Horizon12 August 2021
…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
8 July 2021
Leicester Engineering Building: Under Construction8 July 2021
…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
28 July 2021
Steeling Stirling & Gowan’s Isle of Wight House28 July 2021
…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
13 December 2021
Stories from Architecture: Behind the Lines at Drawing Matter13 December 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…
Postmodern Australia: Robert Pearce’s Drawings for Edmond and Corrigan
1 February 2022
Postmodern Australia: Robert Pearce’s Drawings for Edmond and Corrigan1 February 2022
…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…
Montage-Entourage; Or The Politics Of The Seam
24 January 2022
Montage-Entourage; Or The Politics Of The Seam24 January 2022
…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?
28 February 2022
What’s a Bludder Sketch?28 February 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…
Álvaro Siza: The Adoration of the magi
19 January 2022
Álvaro Siza: The Adoration of the magi19 January 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…
housing DMC sketch plan