Period: c21st
Power & Public Space 4: Jonas Žukauskas – Forest Parts
15 July 2022
Power & Public Space 4: Jonas Žukauskas – Forest Parts15 July 2022
– Matthew Blunderfield and Jonas Žukauskas
Power & Public Space is a podcast from Drawing Matter and the Architecture Foundation hosted by Matthew Blunderfield. You can find the full podcast series here. Or listen now: When we think about public space, we tend to consider the street, the plaza, the park or the square – urban spaces… Read More
Power & Public Space 3: Manuel Herz – Babyn Yar Synagogue
13 July 2022
Power & Public Space 3: Manuel Herz – Babyn Yar Synagogue13 July 2022
– Matthew Blunderfield and Manuel Herz
Power & Public Space is a podcast from Drawing Matter and the Architecture Foundation hosted by Matthew Blunderfield. You can find the full podcast series here. Or listen now: Last year the Swiss practice Manuel Herz Architects completed a wooden synagogue West of Kyiv at Babyn Yar, the site of one… Read More
Elia Zenghelis: The Image as Emblem and Storyteller
11 July 2022
Elia Zenghelis: The Image as Emblem and Storyteller11 July 2022
We recently arranged for Elia Zenghelis to give a presentation under the title ‘The Image as Emblem and Storyteller’ via the Architecture Foundation’s YouTube channel. The talk summarises a thesis that Elia has been continuously developing throughout his career: from OMA’s polemical early work, via decades as one of the… Read More
Power & Public Space 2: Lauren Bon – Bending the River Back to the City
8 July 2022
Power & Public Space 2: Lauren Bon – Bending the River Back to the City8 July 2022
– Matthew Blunderfield and Lauren Bon
Power & Public Space is a podcast from Drawing Matter and the Architecture Foundation hosted by Matthew Blunderfield. You can find the full podcast series here. Or listen now: The concrete-lined LA River was built on top of a sprawling floodplain, which the land artist Lauren Bon seeks to reveal through… Read More
Power & Public Space 1: Liza Fior – The Dalston Eastern Curve Garden
6 July 2022
Power & Public Space 1: Liza Fior – The Dalston Eastern Curve Garden6 July 2022
– Matthew Blunderfield and Liza Fior
Power & Public Space is a podcast from Drawing Matter and the Architecture Foundation hosted by Matthew Blunderfield. You can find the full podcast series here. Or listen now: The Dalston Eastern Curve garden began as a meanwhile scheme, but over the past decade has embedded itself at the centre of… Read More
Interview with Space Magazine
20 June 2022
Interview with Space Magazine20 June 2022
This interview was first published, in Korean translation, in SPACE Magazine. Drawing Matter would like to thank the editors of SPACE for allowing us to publish the English version of the text. Semi Park: Drawing Matter is an organisation that explores the role of drawings in architectural thinking and practice. Upon what… Read More
The Ulysses Project: Architecture and the city through James Joyce’s Dublin: Part II
17 June 2022
The Ulysses Project: Architecture and the city through James Joyce’s Dublin: Part II17 June 2022
This is part two of two posts pairing Freddie Phillipsons’s drawings from The Ulysses Project with excerpts from James Joyce’s landmark novel. The drawings are on display at the Irish Architectural Archive, Dublin, until 19 August 2022. The exhibition is part of Ulysses100, an international programme of events celebrating 100 years… Read More
The Ulysses Project: Architecture and the city through James Joyce’s Dublin: Part I
16 June 2022
The Ulysses Project: Architecture and the city through James Joyce’s Dublin: Part I16 June 2022
This is part one of two posts pairing Freddie Phillipsons’s drawings from The Ulysses Project with excerpts from James Joyce’s landmark novel. The drawings are on display at the Irish Architectural Archive, Dublin, until 19 August 2022. The exhibition is part of Ulysses100, an international programme of events celebrating 100 years… Read More
The Ulysses Project: Architecture and the city through James Joyce’s Dublin: Introduction
8 June 2022
The Ulysses Project: Architecture and the city through James Joyce’s Dublin: Introduction8 June 2022
This text introduces The Ulysses Project by architect Freddie Phillipson, his exploration of the relationship between the buildings of Dublin and James Joyce’s landmark novel. The drawings are on display at the Irish Architectural Archive, Dublin, from 17 June – 19 August 2022. The exhibition is part of Ulysses100, an international… Read More
Clancy Moore: Less is more
24 May 2022
Clancy Moore: Less is more24 May 2022
This linked text is part of an ongoing series that records the building projects undertaken at Shatwell Farm. For more on the Shatwell Project, click here.
Design Starts: Loughborough School of Architecture at Shatwell Farm
3 May 2022
Design Starts: Loughborough School of Architecture at Shatwell Farm3 May 2022
The following is an account of a visit to Drawing Matter in March 2022 made by Benjamin Machin and his students at the Loughborough School of Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering – Alina Abdulwahid, Nyewuna Amadi, Jemima Dabell, Beckie Downs, Lewis Foster-Jeapes, Will Jones, Will Mennell, Danielle Riley, Joe Tolley,… Read More
Hélène Binet: The Outsider
19 May 2022
Hélène Binet: The Outsider19 May 2022
– Hélène Binet
a new way of looking at the world Working in my kitchen in the mornings of the 2020 spring.All is silent. Am I silent or is the whole world?In the darkness, you hear better, said Aristotle.In silence and in a closed environment, can you see better? Suddenly the walls of… Read More
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