Period: c20th
Protected: Richard Neutra at Drawing Matter
17 January 2025
Protected: Richard Neutra at Drawing Matter17 January 2025
– Editors and Nicholas Olsberg
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The Utzons go to Stockholm
17 January 2025
The Utzons go to Stockholm17 January 2025
‘…my parents went to visit the grand exhibition in Stockholm in 1930. Here the Scandinavian functionalism had its breakthrough in a society of exceedingly ornate style. Here [in Stockholm] they were exposed to a new and simple, white architecture that drew in light and air, one that let in the… Read More
DMJ – Something in the Air: On the Atmosphere of a Lee Miller Photograph
16 January 2025
DMJ – Something in the Air: On the Atmosphere of a Lee Miller Photograph16 January 2025
Frontispieces are to do with storytelling and we find a curious example of this at the start of Humphrey Jennings’ posthumously published book Pandaemonium 1660–1886: the Coming of the Machine Age as Seen by Contemporary Observers. It is a photograph by Lee Miller of Jennings himself, a filmmaker, writer and… Read More
Protected: Adolf Loos: House Tzara, Paris, 1925-27
7 January 2025
Protected: Adolf Loos: House Tzara, Paris, 1925-277 January 2025
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Ian Hamilton Finlay at Drawing Matter
6 January 2025
Ian Hamilton Finlay at Drawing Matter6 January 2025
Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925–2006) was born in Nassau, Bahamas, and educated in Scotland from the age of six. He briefly studied at the Glasgow School of Art and joined the British Army in 1942. After the war, Finlay worked as a shepherd while producing paintings, short plays and stories. He… Read More
Two lectures at Drawing Research Platform, Somerset, 2024, ENAC Summer Workshop
19 December 2024
Two lectures at Drawing Research Platform, Somerset, 2024, ENAC Summer Workshop19 December 2024
The following text is a brief reflection on two lectures delivered at Shatwell Farm in August 2024 as part of the ENAC EPFL Drawing Research Platform. To read the students’ reflections and view their drawings, click here. To read an account of the week, click here. The two lectures at… Read More
Notes on the Visionary Spaces exhibition at the Belvedere 21
16 December 2024
Notes on the Visionary Spaces exhibition at the Belvedere 2116 December 2024
I arrive at the Belvedere 21 after visiting Walter Pichler’s famous farmhouse in Sankt Martin an der Raab, only a few days prior—it is a stiflingly hot day in Vienna and for some reason, I have chosen to walk. I arrive at the Belvedere 21 to attend the Visionary Spaces exhibition that showcases some of Walter Pichler’s works in… Read More
Drawing as Signature: Paul Rudolph and the Perspective Section
12 December 2024
Drawing as Signature: Paul Rudolph and the Perspective Section12 December 2024
The following text delves into the drawing of the perspective section—a spatial and structural design tool as well as a specific type of architectural representation—through the drawings of Paul Rudolph, while also reflecting on a post-war Modern era of architectural design-thinking. The text is included in Reassessing Rudolph, ed. by… Read More
Protected: Buffington & Mies: Skyscrapers on Paper
9 December 2024
Protected: Buffington & Mies: Skyscrapers on Paper9 December 2024
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Protected: The Significance of Drawing
6 December 2024
Protected: The Significance of Drawing6 December 2024
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The improvising bouwmeester,* or: how Raymaekers’ buildings got built
5 December 2024
The improvising bouwmeester,* or: how Raymaekers’ buildings got built 5 December 2024
– Arne Vande Capelle, Stijn Colon, Lionel Devlieger and James Westcott
The following text first appeared in Arne Vande Capelle, Stijn Colon, Lionel Devlieger, and James Westcott, Ad Hoc Baroque: Marcel Raymaekers’ Salvage Architecture in Postwar Belgium (Brussels: Rotor, 2023), 168, 174-178. *Master builder, from the middle ages, responsible for materials, design, construction, workforce, and client liaison.[1] Raymaekers rejected the modern diminution of the architect’s… Read More
Protected: Drawing on Ideas
3 December 2024
Protected: Drawing on Ideas3 December 2024
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Impressions of the Siza exhibition
2 December 2024
Impressions of the Siza exhibition2 December 2024
When I was an architecture exchange student at Faculdade de Arquitetura da Universidade do Porto (FAUP), between 2000 and 2001, there was a legend you could knock at Álvaro Siza Vieira’s office door and end up working there as an intern—the equivalent of walking into Mount Olympus to collaborate with… Read More
Swimming in pixel fuzz
28 November 2024
Swimming in pixel fuzz28 November 2024
– Will Fu
In 1979, the community of Riehen in Switzerland toured an indoor and outdoor swimming pool proposal by Herzog & de Meuron in the comfort of their private dwellings. Shared as a TV still of a video simulation, the shadowy figures and pliable ceiling surfaces, finished with a grainy wash of… Read More
Sol LeWitt: Non-visual Structures
25 November 2024
Sol LeWitt: Non-visual Structures25 November 2024
One of the most particular of LeWitt’s preoccupations is his long-standing desire to infer the existence of unseen or interior facts or objects. The concept of encasing in a block of cement the Cellini cup or the Empire State Building runs counter to the unsecretive quality of his open frameworks,… Read More
JOSÉ OUBRERIE, IN MEMORIAM
21 November 2024
JOSÉ OUBRERIE, IN MEMORIAM21 November 2024
Very few contemporary buildings take nearly 50 years to be finished. Just this fact tells us a lot about the intensity, resilience, passion and patience of José Oubrerie, who passed away on March 10th, at 91. Aged only 27 when joining the atelier Le Corbusier in 1959, the church of… Read More
Cedric Price: Parc de la Villette
18 November 2024
Cedric Price: Parc de la Villette18 November 2024
The following account looks into the drawing DMC 1438 related to Price’s Parc de la Villette competition entry, to quest for the modes in which this media object resituates his design approach of design for pleasure, not only as the evolution of his practice, but crucially as part of an… Read More
DMJ – Five Episodes from the History of Drawing Instruments
14 November 2024
DMJ – Five Episodes from the History of Drawing Instruments14 November 2024
Instruments of Building in Ancient Rome Vitruvius, writing in the first century BC, portrays being an architect (architectus) in ancient Rome as a daunting task. The knowledge of the architect, he notes, must encompass the understanding of geometry, engineering, optics, history, philosophy, astronomy, and even music and medicine. At a… Read More
Protected: Per Line’s Basement: An Archive between Sky and Sea
13 November 2024
Protected: Per Line’s Basement: An Archive between Sky and Sea13 November 2024
– Isabella Cederstrøm Palliotto
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In the Archive: Riefenstahl, Hitler, Ebhardt, Sironi, Brasini
4 November 2024
In the Archive: Riefenstahl, Hitler, Ebhardt, Sironi, Brasini4 November 2024
– Editors
Click on drawings to move and enlarge. Premiered at this year’s La Biennale di Venezia, was Andres Veiel’s documentary on Leni Riefenstahl, the German film director known for Olympia (1936) and Triumph des Willens (1935). Framed through archival material Veil’s Riefenstahl (2024) demonstrates how her work was inextricably linked to… Read More
OMA: Rem Koolhaas—Initiative
31 October 2024
OMA: Rem Koolhaas—Initiative31 October 2024
This is the sixth and final post, in the series titled OMA CONVERSATIONS. The series is the result of a collaboration between Drawing Matter and architect Richard Hall who, over the past two years, has conducted twenty-three in-depth conversations with key collaborators working with OMA during its formative years. Drawing… Read More
L’architecture des réalités mises en scene: (re)construire Disney
28 October 2024
L’architecture des réalités mises en scene: (re)construire Disney28 October 2024
Drawing Matter asked Fabrizio Gallanti, Director of the arc en rêve – centre d’architecture, for an informal commentary on the content and presentation of their current exhibition L’architecture des réalités mises en scene: (re)construire Disney, open until January 2025. We are arc en rêve. We do exhibitions. In Bordeaux, South-West of France.… Read More
Protected: Reading Between the Lines: The Language of Structural Engineers
23 October 2024
Protected: Reading Between the Lines: The Language of Structural Engineers23 October 2024
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Protected: Anton Markus Pasing
15 January 2025
Protected: Anton Markus Pasing15 January 2025
– Peter Wilson
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sketch theoretical & imaginary