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Siza on Paper (Exhibition + Talk)

Siza on Paper (Exhibition + Talk)

Editors

On Saturday 28 and Sunday 29 March, Drawing Matter presented an exhibition of drawings by the Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza. The exhibition focused on Siza as a designer of public housing after the Carnation Revolution (1974) and his approaches to drawing. At the centre of the exhibition were three housing… Read More

Sam Jacob: On Collage (Talk, Workshop + Exhibition)

Sam Jacob: On Collage (Talk, Workshop + Exhibition)

Editors

In early February, Drawing Matter organised a series of public events with the architect Sam Jacob exploring the uses of collage in architectural representations. On the Friday (6 February), Sam gave a talk on his personal interests in collage, weaving a narrative from Richard Hamilton’s Just what is it that… Read More

Chatter: Richard Wentworth with Roger Malbert, Rowan Moore and Marina Warner (Video)

Chatter: Richard Wentworth with Roger Malbert, Rowan Moore and Marina Warner (Video)

Editors

Drawing Matter’s 2026 Public Programme launched with Chatter, an informal evening that encouraged conversation around drawings and objects from the collection. For Chatter #1, we collaborated with the artist Richard Wentworth to select drawings and objects that relate to his work and interests. For the evening, material from different contexts,… Read More

In the Archive: Kenneth Frampton in Conversation with Daniel Talesnik (Video)

In the Archive: Kenneth Frampton in Conversation with Daniel Talesnik (Video)

Kenneth Frampton and Daniel Talesnik

In this instalment of our ‘In the Archive’ series, eminent architectural historian Kenneth Frampton is joined by architect and curator Daniel Talesnik. Through drawings of built and unbuilt works by Ove Arup, Stirling & Gowan, Alison and Peter Smithson, and Patrick Hodgkinson, to name a few, the conversation ranges from… Read More

Tony Fretton: Everything I Saw Became Important (Exhibition + Talk)

Tony Fretton: Everything I Saw Became Important (Exhibition + Talk)

Editors

On Friday 7 November, Drawing Matter welcomed architects Tony Fretton and Benjamin Machin to the archive for a conversation to open the exhibition ‘Tony Fretton: Everything I Saw Became Important’. Anchored by seven ‘artefacts’ now in the Drawing Matter Collection, the conversation explores the roles of drawings, photography, and sketchbooks… Read More

In the Archive: Maristella Casciato (Video)

In the Archive: Maristella Casciato (Video)

Maristella Casciato

From April to July, Maristella Casciato was Drawing Matter’s Visiting Scholar—our first in London. During her time in the archive, she made new discoveries and started many stimulating conversations. Among other things, she closely studied Le Corbusier’s Chandigarh Punjab Grille Capitol album, translated a selection of Gio Ponti’s illustrated letters,… Read More

Elia Zenghelis: The Image as Emblem and Storyteller

Elia Zenghelis: The Image as Emblem and Storyteller

Richard Hall

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

Cedric Price: Urban Spaceman

Cedric Price: Urban Spaceman

Ana Bonet Miró

Laid down facing upwards and spread evenly on a neutral surface, 13 tin toys pose for a shot. Cedric Price’s robot collection – battery powered or clockwork, says the caption – includes a mechanical bird and rabbit, several spaceships, spacemen and robots. Their distinctive features intimate specific names, makers and… Read More

Cedric Price: Westal Market Stall Prototypes

Cedric Price: Westal Market Stall Prototypes

Editors

The way I remember it, a couple of years after the transfer of the ownership of the major part of the paper archive (over which I had been involved, as a kind of mediator), Cedric asked me to help with dismantling the Store Street studio, where he was giving up the lease.… Read More