Tag: DMC
Collection Guide: OMA
23.10.2026
Collection Guide: OMA23.10.2026
OMA, the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, was officially founded on 1 January 1975 ‘to develop a mutant form of Urbanism – new types of architectural scenarios that will result in the rehabilitation of the metropolitan lifestyle.’ Its founding partners were two architect-artist couples: Elia Zenghelis (1937–2026) and Zoe Zenghelis (b.1938),… Read More
On Travel (Videos)
22.10.2026
On Travel (Videos)22.10.2026
These videos, filmed in the space of the archive, are part of an ongoing series at Drawing Matter, where we ask scholars and practitioners to look closely at and comment on particular drawings, sketchbooks, and artefacts in the collection. Find more from the series here. * Matthew Wells teaches architectural history… Read More
Asplund’s Villa Snellman: An Oblique View
08.10.2026
Asplund’s Villa Snellman: An Oblique View08.10.2026
Situated sometime and somewhere between Paul Cézanne and the Villa Savoye, in the second decade of the twentieth century, is Erik Gunnar Asplund’s Villa Snellman. The building was designed and constructed between 1917 and 1918 for a bank director, and is situated in Djursholm, a suburb of Stockholm. At first… Read More
Polyconal System Projected into the Unknown
05.10.2026
Protected: Mark Fisher: The Wall for Pink Floyd
28.09.2026
Protected: Mark Fisher: The Wall for Pink Floyd28.09.2026
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Building a Site: Between Tradition and Modernity – Asplund’s Summerhouse in Stennäs
21.09.2026
Building a Site: Between Tradition and Modernity – Asplund’s Summerhouse in Stennäs21.09.2026
In 1936, four years before his death, Erik Gunnar Asplund designed his own house on a site with unique characteristics, irregular topography, and rocky outcrops. Known as the summerhouse in Stennäs, it remains a timeless architectural case study. The house embodies an architectural idea, a distinct approach to the tenets… Read More
DMJ – Notes on Derek Boshier
11.09.2026
DMJ – Notes on Derek Boshier 11.09.2026
Derek Boshier’s 16 Situations (1971) could be experienced both in print and as an installation. The exhibition, which toured from early 1971 before being shown at the Whitechapel Gallery in September and October 1973, was simple in concept: the viewer followed a wall with 16 altered photographic images, each one with the… Read More
The Analogous City: Panel
04.09.2026
The Analogous City: Panel04.09.2026
Having been asked to write about the panel exhibited at the Venice Biennale—entitled The analogous city, a joint work carried out with my friends Eraldo Consolascio, Bruno Reichlin and Fabio Reinhart—it is worthwhile, I feel, posing a few general questions that arise prior to experiments or results of this kind.… Read More
Reclaiming the Visual in Architectural Theory
31.08.2026
Reclaiming the Visual in Architectural Theory31.08.2026
Among the most influential books of architectural theory in the last three centuries is the Essai sur l’Architecture by Marc-Antoine Laugier, published in 1753. The book’s goal was to establish the foundational principles of architecture, and thus the rules for designing proper buildings. The author argued that these rules descend… Read More
Collection Guide: John Ruskin
27.08.2026
Collection Guide: John Ruskin27.08.2026
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Drawing Matter holds a mineral collection compiled by John Ruskin for the St David’s Boys’ Preparatory School in Reigate, Surrey. The school later relocated to Stone House in Broadstairs and the mineral collection moved with it. Donated in 1883, the specimens were chosen from Ruskin’s personal collection, yet his idea… Read More
Michael Gold: The Dialogue of Representation
24.08.2026
Michael Gold: The Dialogue of Representation24.08.2026
– Michael Gold and Dalibor Vesely
The following text, ‘The Dialogue of Representation’ by Dalibor Vesely, was published in People in Architecture, the book featuring the exhibition of work by Michael Gold’s AA Unit 5 students held at the Architectural Association, 4–29 October 1983. Read a response to the exhibition by Peter Wilson here. Drawing Matter… Read More
BOLLES+WILSON: Drawing Towards Building (Exhibition + Talk)
14.08.2026
BOLLES+WILSON: Drawing Towards Building (Exhibition + Talk)14.08.2026
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On Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 July, Drawing Matter presented an exhibition of drawings by BOLLES+WILSON (founded in London in 1980; based in Münster since 1988). The exhibition was the fourth in a series presenting the work of architects and practices that are represented in the Drawing Matter Collection by significant portfolios… Read More
Collection Guide: Cedric Price
03.08.2026
Collection Guide: Cedric Price03.08.2026
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Cedric Price (1934–2003) studied architecture at Cambridge University before receiving his diploma from the Architectural Association (AA) in 1957. He went on to teach at the AA and worked in the offices of Maxwell Fry and Denys Lasdun before founding his own practice in 1960. Though the majority of Price’s… Read More
The Creative Potential of Archival Boundaries
30.07.2026
The Creative Potential of Archival Boundaries30.07.2026
This unknown eighteenth-century French textile sample pattern book is an intriguing addition to the Drawing Matter collection. Is it architecture, or is it here through a taxonomic error? Either way, how should we approach reading it within this architectural context? The book opens to roughly A3 in format, and each… Read More
Collection Guide: Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc
06.07.2026
Collection Guide: Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc06.07.2026
The French Neo-Gothic architect Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (1814–1879) was one of the defining figures of nineteenth-century architecture worldwide. He transformed the restoration and interpretation of medieval monuments, championed structural rationalism, and reinvented drawing and publishing as tools for disseminating architectural knowledge. By the time of his death, he had become the… Read More
Protected: Colour in Architectural Drawings
29.06.2026
Protected: Colour in Architectural Drawings29.06.2026
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Protected: The Temple
29.06.2026
Protected: The Temple29.06.2026
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Collection Guide: Peter Wilson & BOLLES+WILSON
22.06.2026
Collection Guide: Peter Wilson & BOLLES+WILSON22.06.2026
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Peter Wilson and Julia Bolles are the founding partners of Architekturbüro BOLLES+WILSON. Peter Wilson was born in Australia, he studied architecture at the University of Melbourne and the Architectural Association, where he later taught from 1974–1988 (Diploma Unit Master 1980–88). Julia Bolles was born in Münster and graduated from the Karlsruhe Institute of… Read More
Invented from Copies
18.06.2026
Invented from Copies18.06.2026
In 1980, Fred A. Stitt, the doyen of American authors of handbooks on the technical and managerial aspects of architectural practice, defined the distinction between drawing and copy drafting (to use the American spelling of draughting) in uncompromising terms: Drawing is an originating process: a creative, aesthetic, and problem-solving process.… Read More
Trevor Dannatt: St Mary’s Grove – La maison où j’ai grandi
11.06.2026
Trevor Dannatt: St Mary’s Grove – La maison où j’ai grandi11.06.2026
This is the eighth and concluding part of Adrian Dannatt’s series of reflections on his family home, frequently remodelled and extended over 45 years from 1955, by his father, the architect Trevor Dannatt. Read the introduction to the series here. * Curtains The newly restored house appeared, on the cover no… Read More
Owen Luder: Sunderland Stadium
29.05.2026
Owen Luder: Sunderland Stadium29.05.2026
Apart from the extraordinary dynamism of the composition, one of the most striking things about this drawing of Owen Luder’s design for a new stadium for Sunderland A.F.C. is that the people heading towards the turnstiles aren’t wearing red and white. Indeed, the figures are not your usual football fans—today,… Read More
The Olympic Stadium Project: Le Corbusier & Baghdad
28.05.2026
The Olympic Stadium Project: Le Corbusier & Baghdad28.05.2026
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In the first three months of 2009, the Victoria and Albert Museum presented a small exhibition dedicated to Le Corbusier’s unrealised Olympic Stadium Project for Baghdad. The show was organised by the RIBA, Irena Murray, and Peter Carl, with work loaned from the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), the Fondation… Read More
Thalia & Melpomene
16.10.2026
Thalia & Melpomene16.10.2026
– Roberto Cides
It floats: Amid the haze, like a game or a dream, over an invented geography, toward the Grand Canal, the Po, the Paraná. Il Teatro del Mondo sways to nature’s rhythm.[1] Square in plan, it recalls both the Venetian carnivals and Shakespeare’s Globe. An entrance door on each side and vaporetti in the… Read More
DMC elevation theoretical & imaginary urban form