Period: c21st
Protected: Pembroke’s Archives
17.03.2025
Protected: Pembroke’s Archives17.03.2025
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DMJ – A Will to the City
17.03.2025
DMJ – A Will to the City17.03.2025
Nine unfinished drawings from 15 years ago; a text titled Phobos, which later appears in print; a story by Emilio Gadda and a brief encounter with agoraphobes; Denis Hollier’s work on Bataille’s aversion to monuments; Michel Serres’ Rome: The Book of Foundations; Aldo Rossi’s fabricca; Michel Foucault’s panopticism; Borges’ fear of mirrors; 50 years of sporadic visits to… Read More
Protected: The Eternal Change – The Coming of a Ruin
11.03.2025
Protected: The Eternal Change – The Coming of a Ruin11.03.2025
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The Cypress and the Arch
07.03.2025
The Cypress and the Arch07.03.2025
The following text first appeared in Bohdan Kryzhanovsky, Architecture After War: A Reader (London: MACK, 2024), 9–24. Architecture in the present is closely related to the past, to culture, and to collective memory. We always build and design in context, and each building grows from the precedents of hundreds of previous… Read More
On Axonometric Drawing
27.02.2025
On Axonometric Drawing27.02.2025
In the work of our practice, since the very start, we have placed a great deal of attention towards drawing and representation. The recent exhibition in Antwerp—The Urban Villa—is a good example of our work, which is based on the combination of design with research; both of these two activities… Read More
8 Smart’s Place: Making Sense
24.02.2025
8 Smart’s Place: Making Sense24.02.2025
This text concludes a series of studies by Emily Priest that began at Shatwell Farm during her stay on site in September 2023. How do you organise an architectural archive? Should it be ordered alphabetically? Should it be ordered by date? Should it be ordered by size? Should it be organised by type of object? How do… Read More
Drawing on Ideas
17.02.2025
Drawing on Ideas17.02.2025
In 1972, when Peter Eisenman’s House II was published in L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui, the editors confused a photograph of the built work for an image of a model. The house was located in Southern Vermont, and had been shot from a low angle against a uniform grey sky with a snow-covered hillside… Read More
Sixty Metres, Sixty Degrees
04.02.2025
Sixty Metres, Sixty Degrees04.02.2025
This text is loosely based on the first part of my lecture ‘The Landscape Model,’ delivered at the Sverre Fehn-designed Hedmark Museum in October 2023. The lecture was part of the Sverre Fehn Symposium ‘Authoring Architecture in Time’ organised by AHO and the Hedmark Museum, and curated by Professor Mari… Read More
Anton Markus Pasing
30.01.2025
Anton Markus Pasing30.01.2025
Münster, March 2024 Mad I cannot be, sane I do not deign to be, neurotic I am. Nearly fifty years ago Nigel Coates writing in my Villa Auto AA exhibition catalogue chose the above quote from Roland Barthes to describe my pathological production of architectural fictions. These were hand-drawn, a… Read More
The Grandest Form: Architects on Instruction-Based Art
24.01.2025
The Grandest Form: Architects on Instruction-Based Art24.01.2025
The drawing that we selected for this presentation is, in a way, a limiting of information. We’ve extracted everything but the mechanical systems—the hidden, technical layers in our projects. By focusing only on these systems, we find clues to the instructions and the technical requirements that were handed to us… Read More
Dogma: Urban Villa – From Speculation to Collaboration
23.01.2025
Dogma: Urban Villa – From Speculation to Collaboration23.01.2025
On the north edge of Brussels city centre, the recently refurbished Gare Maritime was once Europe’s largest goods station. Located in the former industrial area known as ‘Tour & Taxis’, the vast nineteenth-century roof now shelters offices, indoor retail boulevards and enough left over space to host markets and events,… Read More
For AP + AR
20.01.2025
For AP + AR20.01.2025
Long, thin and crisp, sun-bleached, rose-blushed. Thousand-time photocopied notations of notations. Struck-through with highlighter, corrected and recorrected re-negotiated, scribbled and walked across. I walk together with AP e AR, our thin nibbed-shoes picking careful tracks between sharpie chasms. We leak behind us inky trails, to be washed away by the… Read More
Drawing as Travelogue
27.12.2024
Drawing as Travelogue27.12.2024
– Beth George and Emerald Wise
This is a rumination on memory, perceived worlds, and on drawing as embodied experience and shared conversation. While visiting Drawing Matter, we attended to and later remembered spaces both drawn and physical. Produced on the floor of a roof terrace in Sicily, we moved over the drawn field as a… Read More
Notes on the Visionary Spaces Exhibition at the Belvedere 21
16.12.2024
Notes on the Visionary Spaces Exhibition at the Belvedere 2116.12.2024
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
Peris+Toral Arquitectes: Modulus Matrix
13.12.2024
Peris+Toral Arquitectes: Modulus Matrix13.12.2024
‘We were asked for one image that illustrated our thinking. The half that’s in white shows the final floor plan. The black shows the process, superimposing all the possibilities as we developed the project, exploring different options until the final crystallised version.’ Peris+Toral Arquitectes have been awarded the RIBA International… Read More
Notes from the Architecture Foundation Summer School
09.12.2024
Notes from the Architecture Foundation Summer School09.12.2024
– Anne Femmer, Adam Khan and Florian Summa
The following account by Anne Femmer, Adam Khan, and Florian Summa—three of the architects who led the Architecture Foundation 2024 Summer School—offers a reflection of the Summer School, which ran between 11–15 September 2024 at the newly completed St Pancras Campus, a mixed-use development in Central London designed by Caruso… Read More
Impressions of the Siza Exhibition
02.12.2024
Impressions of the Siza Exhibition02.12.2024
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
Protected: Site Drawing: GPS on Architecture
26.11.2024
Protected: Site Drawing: GPS on Architecture26.11.2024
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Fuglsang Kunstmuseum: Facts and Interpretation in Staging a Museum
11.11.2024
Fuglsang Kunstmuseum: Facts and Interpretation in Staging a Museum11.11.2024
The following text was first published in OASE #111: Staging the Museum (2022). Drawing Matter would like to thank Tony Fretton and the issue’s editors Aslı Çiçek, Jantje Engels, and Maarten Liefooghe, for allowing us to reproduce the text. Purchase a copy of OASE #111 here. Fuglsang Kunstmuseum is located on the… Read More
PostDigital Collage: Naivety as an Ideo-aesthetic Technique
07.11.2024
PostDigital Collage: Naivety as an Ideo-aesthetic Technique07.11.2024
It was 2005, a moment of crescent belief in technical progress and modernity prior to the upcoming financial crisis that took place two years later. The early 2000s saw the progressive implementation of photorealistic modes of architectural representation through which firms were able to intensify the instrumentalisation of spatial design.… Read More
L’architecture des réalités mises en scene: (re)construire Disney
28.10.2024
L’architecture des réalités mises en scene: (re)construire Disney28.10.2024
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
DMJ – Devices of Dream-Like Precision: Tracing the Streets of Kyoto using Photogrammetry and Layered Drawing
24.10.2024
DMJ – Devices of Dream-Like Precision: Tracing the Streets of Kyoto using Photogrammetry and Layered Drawing24.10.2024
There have been frequent attempts to represent the city of Kyoto as a coherent whole, from the cloud-swept panorama of the 17th-century Rakuchu Rakugai zu (Scenes In and Around Kyoto) folding screen paintings to the digital diorama of the GIS-driven Virtual Kyoto Project. Whilst these portraits of the city have relied on… Read More
Drawing Without Erasing
21.10.2024
Drawing Without Erasing21.10.2024
The following text first appeared in Drawing without Erasing and Other Essays, by Flores & Prats (Barcelona: Puente editores, 2023), 16-23. Not so long ago, a journalist interviewed us for the British magazine Architecture Today, and the resulting article was called ‘Dirty Drawings’. This suggestive title might bring to mind a… Read More
Name(r)s of the Animals and Drawers
24.03.2025
Name(r)s of the Animals and Drawers24.03.2025
– Bahar Avanoğlu
‘Barely Traced, the true drawing escapes.’[1] On a late night while reading Latife Tekin’s Zamansız (Timeless or Without Time)–a tale of love embedded in a lake, unfolded within the obscured semblances of a weasel and an eel–I found myself moving my lips, whispering: ‘Frii-iii-er-frii-ii-frii’. As I read the words printed on the paper, I… Read More
presentation theoretical & imaginary sketch