Tag: DMC
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
E. W. Godwin and the Mild Mild West
13 January 2025
E. W. Godwin and the Mild Mild West13 January 2025
From this drawing it would seem unlikely that the side wall at its centre would one day be photographed thousands of times, and attract the interest of people from all over the world. Here, it appears unremarkable, especially when compared to the gutsy brick detailing and gothic flourishes of the… Read More
Montano – Don’t speak about me
10 January 2025
Montano – Don’t speak about me10 January 2025
Dear Niall, Before I forget, I wanted to send you the transcription from the Montano sheet. You can post it as my little discovery. Non dir di me se su di me non sai senza di te che poi di me dirai?Non fare ad aloro quello che a te non piace … 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
Drawing Research Platform, Somerset, 2024, ENAC Summer Workshop
19 December 2024
Drawing Research Platform, Somerset, 2024, ENAC Summer Workshop19 December 2024
– Raffael Baur and Patricia Guaita
The following text recounts the week-long drawing workshop held at Shatwell Farm in August 2024. To read the students’ reflections and view their drawings, click here. To read invited expert Sergio Ekerman’s account of the two lectures he delivered throughout the week, click here. The 2024 ENAC Summer Workshop at… 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
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
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
On origins and originality
15 November 2024
On origins and originality15 November 2024
The following text by Niall Hobhouse is included in the exhibition catalogue for Begin Again. Fail Better: Preliminary Drawings in Architecture. The exhibition, previously shown at the Kunstmuseum in Olten, opened at EPFL on the 5th of November and will close on the 2nd of December 2024. It includes nearly 100 drawings from… 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
Fuglsang Kunstmuseum: Facts and interpretation in staging a museum
11 November 2024
Fuglsang Kunstmuseum: Facts and interpretation in staging a museum11 November 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
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
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
Goldfinger—Planning Your Neighbourhood
14 October 2024
Goldfinger—Planning Your Neighbourhood14 October 2024
At first glance Planning Your Neighbourhood appears as a series of prints in a case, and its use is unclear. This series of twenty prints was created by modernist architect Ernö Goldfinger, artist Ursula Blackwell, illustrator Shiela Hawkins, landscape architect Peter Shepheard and their assistant Martin Cobbett. Rather than solely… Read More
Retreat and Commemoration: Heath’s Court, 1878–82 – Part 3
10 October 2024
Retreat and Commemoration: Heath’s Court, 1878–82 – Part 310 October 2024
This post concludes Nicholas Olsberg’s series on William Butterfield’s Heath’s Court project, the text of which is included in his new book The Master Builder: William Butterfield and his Times to be published by Lund Humphries in October 2024. ‘Sounding corridors’: entry and sequence The driveway brings us into a… Read More
Retreat and Commemoration: Heath’s Court, 1878–82 – Part 2
3 October 2024
Retreat and Commemoration: Heath’s Court, 1878–82 – Part 23 October 2024
This post continues with the second part of Nicholas Olsberg’s text on William Butterfield’s Heath’s Court project, included in his new book The Master Builder: William Butterfield and his Times to be published by Lund Humphries in October 2024. ‘Cycles of the human tale’: the library The elevation of the… Read More
Retreat and Commemoration: Heath’s Court, 1878–82 – Part 1
23 September 2024
Retreat and Commemoration: Heath’s Court, 1878–82 – Part 123 September 2024
William Butterfield’s architectural practice, spanning the entire Victorian era, is the focus of Nicholas Olsberg’s new book The Master Builder: William Butterfield and his Times to be published by Lund Humphries in October 2024. Over the next three weeks, Drawing Matter will reproduce a chapter within The Master Builder that focuses… Read More
A Poetic Peak: Architecture and planning at the AA in the 1930s
16 September 2024
A Poetic Peak: Architecture and planning at the AA in the 1930s16 September 2024
– Editors and John Summerson
In 2022, Drawing Matter acquired nearly 100 drawings by the architect and urban planner Elizabeth Chesterton. Mostly for projects done while studying at the Architectural Association (1933–38), the group includes drawing exercises, such as colour theory, sciography and graphic design, and a wide variety of buildings at different scales, from… Read More
Claude Parent at Drawing Matter
12 September 2024
Claude Parent at Drawing Matter12 September 2024
– Editors and Chloé Parent
Drawing Matter is honoured to have recently added to the collection a group of 60 drawings by Claude Parent, which were selected in very generous collaboration with Chloé Parent and the Claude Parent Archives. In the wider context of the collection, we see these drawings as offering unique access to… Read More
Protected: Buffington & Mies: Skyscrapers on Paper
9 December 2024
Protected: Buffington & Mies: Skyscrapers on Paper9 December 2024
– Niall Hobhouse
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
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