DMJ β Burning Drawing
6 June 2024
DMJ β Burning Drawing6 June 2024
…result of the laser machine’s misaligned optics. The material was laser-etched multiple times with varying ‘exposure’ values. In this instance, different reference-stills of Operation Crossroads (the first nuclear tests ever conducted…
Landing Square Scenarios: The Wilhelmina Pier & Luxor Theatre
29 January 2024
Landing Square Scenarios: The Wilhelmina Pier & Luxor Theatre29 January 2024
β Peter Wilson
…the visual. In retrospect, this radical compacting of planning procedures is to be commended, it avoids all the pseudo-legal report writing that bogs down planning in the UK (best-practice requirements…
Sigurd Lewerentz: Siting the Axonometric
17 November 2020
Sigurd Lewerentz: Siting the Axonometric17 November 2020
β Stan Allen
…advantage of the simultaneous compression and extension of the visual field implied by the infinite vanishing point to recall the push/pull of cubist space. [2] Compelling as they are, the…
Workshops
12 June 2023
Workshops12 June 2023
…please email workshops@drawingmatter.org. Accessing the collection catalogue The entire Drawing Matter collection is digitised at www.drawingmattercollections.com. The catalogue is a key instrument in developing workshops with visiting groups, but it is…
Outside In
23 November 2020
Outside In23 November 2020
β Emily Priest
Music plays from behind a curtain. Lights come on and you see that the curtain runs along two sides of a carpet whose centre hosts a leopard skin cushion. There…
Mies van der Rohe and the Universal Space Project
30 August 2022
Mies van der Rohe and the Universal Space Project30 August 2022
β Landry Smith
…(which were completed behind the scenes, with Mies’ blessing, after the office’s services were acrimoniously terminated in 1951). What was especially compelling to us about this material was the dissonance…
DMJ βΒ The Sound of Magma: Geographies of Infrasound, Vibrating Bodies, and Representing the Earth
9 December 2022
DMJ βΒ The Sound of Magma: Geographies of Infrasound, Vibrating Bodies, and Representing the Earth9 December 2022
β Adam Bobbette
…the 20th century. Download the full article as a printable PDF HERE.Download DMJournal–Architecture and Representation No. 1: The Geological Imagination ISSN 2753-5010 (Online) About DMJournal About the author Adam Bobbette…
DMJ βΒ Dialogues between Architecture And Granite in Punta Sardegna
20 January 2023
DMJ βΒ Dialogues between Architecture And Granite in Punta Sardegna20 January 2023
β Alberto Ponis
…from the ferry to La Maddalena, 1963. Courtesy of the author. Download the full article as a printable PDFDownload DMJournal–Architecture and Representation No. 1: The Geological Imagination Edited by Mark…
OβDonnell + Tuomey in Conversation
8 May 2020
OβDonnell + Tuomey in Conversation8 May 2020
β Sheila O'Donnell and John Tuomey
…Brian printed everything, and I started cutting out the prints and arranging the plans by either their compatible dimensions or compatible functions. I was trying to make some sense of…
Writing Prize 2020: Architectural Apparitions
7 January 2021
Writing Prize 2020: Architectural Apparitions7 January 2021
β Anahat Chandra
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886–1969), Friedrichstrasse Skyscraper, 1921. Photomontage, 1400 × 1000 mm. Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin. Some dreams are never meant to see the light of day. Like a wild…
The Evolving Role of Drawing
29 April 2022
The Evolving Role of Drawing29 April 2022
β Nicholas Olsberg
…left. DMC 2866. Architecture as a state of mind Nothing this rich or disputed can be thought of simply as a tool of the trade. Drawings might test, advance or…
biq: Revealing Construction
26 May 2021
biq: Revealing Construction26 May 2021
β Neil Middleton
…of construction’. If this is the case, and given drawings are the primary communication tool for architects, it is perhaps surprising that we do not see more architects publishing their construction…
Architectural Drawing (1983)
22 June 2021
Architectural Drawing (1983)22 June 2021
β George Collins
…the commentary on it afterwards. The most exacting requirement is, however, the multitude of working drawings prepared by the architect’s office and by all associated contractors in the course of…
BV Doshi: Drawn Closer
23 April 2020
BV Doshi: Drawn Closer23 April 2020
β Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi and Sarah Handelman
…at things with compassion. I was born into an extended Hindu family, where passion, spirituality and sharing were common practice. I was expected to be tolerant, dutiful and loving. If…
Sir John Soane’s Museum: Bound Legacy
9 February 2021
Sir John Soane’s Museum: Bound Legacy9 February 2021
…and views of Soane’s interiors encom*]}*pass the volume’s illustrative component. Britton’s guidebook did not sell, and ultimately Soane was not satisfied by the work, as indicated by the publication of…
Houses for Printing: A Microcosm of the World
21 February 2024
Houses for Printing: A Microcosm of the World21 February 2024
β Sarah Hearne
The following text is an excerpt from the guide that accompanied the exhibition ‘PRINT READY DRAWINGS: Composites, Layers, and Paste-ups, 1950-1989’, installed at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture…
In the Archive: New and Found 3
3 May 2024
In the Archive: New and Found 33 May 2024
β Editors
…New to the archive is also a series of twelve variations of collapsible geodesic structures by John Zerning. Each of these drawings simply translates the complex mathematics of unfurling a…
Manufacturers Trust Bank
9 July 2024
Manufacturers Trust Bank9 July 2024
β Janet Parks
Kahn & Jacobs, Arthur Frappier (draughtsman), Manufacturers Trust Company Building, c.1941. Pencil and coloured crayon on tracing, 283 × 390 mm. DMC 3691.1. When one thinks of Manufacturers Trust Company…
Pan Scroll Zoom 18: Wolff Architects
17 November 2021
Pan Scroll Zoom 18: Wolff Architects17 November 2021
β Fabrizio Gallanti, Ilze Wolff and Heinrich Wolff
…individuals working on a common project? HW: It is a very complex question because it refers to the issue of the place of authorship in the production of work. We…
W. R. Lethaby: Philip Webb and His Work
3 February 2023
W. R. Lethaby: Philip Webb and His Work3 February 2023
β Hugh Strange
…greatest art preserved some strand of primitive frankness and an element of wonder.’ Click here to download Chapter 7 from W. R. Lethaby’s book on Philip Webb and his work.Download…
Writing Prize 2021: Itsuko Hasegawa, Capturing an Infinite Distance
4 November 2021
Writing Prize 2021: Itsuko Hasegawa, Capturing an Infinite Distance4 November 2021
β Ahmed Belkhodja
…Milan Kundera noted in 1986, ‘today one can make music with computers, but the computer has always existed in the head of the composers’. [4] Similarly, the computer and its…
Heinz Isler: Natural Hills on Different Edge Lines
14 November 2023
Heinz Isler: Natural Hills on Different Edge Lines14 November 2023
β John Chilton
…and the other links in the investigation, model tests, measuring of the first structure, or a model test in scale 1:1 as we have it out here, these are of…
Stirling & Gowan: The Isle of Wight House
21 July 2021
Stirling & Gowan: The Isle of Wight House21 July 2021
β James Gowan, J. M. Richards, Laurent Stalder, James Stirling and Ellis Woodman
…wise not to complicate the simplicity of the idea by over subtle detailing. For example it might have been a temptation to give added expression to the nature of the…
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