Writer: Roz Barr
Reflections on The Drawing Matter Archive
3 May 2022
Reflections on The Drawing Matter Archive3 May 2022
– Roz Barr, Jonah Ginsburg, Benjamin Machin and Sandra Porter
The following four texts reflect on connections to and interactions with Drawing Matter, on the ground or from afar. Central to each is the drawings collection at Shatwell Farm. Design Starts: Loughborough School of Architecture at Shatwell FarmBy Benjamin Machin Adaptations: A Teaching Studio at CornellBy Roz Barr Reflections on… Read More
Adaptations: A Teaching Studio at Cornell
19 April 2022
Adaptations: A Teaching Studio at Cornell19 April 2022
– Roz Barr
Options Studio was an Elective Module at Cornell University led by Roz Barr. The act of making means engaging with an idea that can be made, unmade, and reconsidered before being realised. Model-making has a critical role in formulating and realising an idea. Materiality and form are developed through discussions… Read More
Roz Barr Architects: The Maquette
7 April 2017
Roz Barr Architects: The Maquette7 April 2017
– Roz Barr
The act of making a physical artefact involves a to-and-fro engagement with an idea, in which decisions are ‘made’ and re-thought, and then un-made before the idea is realised. This roundabout but essential process of adaption is carried out, in the work of my architectural practice, through the use of… Read More
Six Architects on their Dream Desks
17 December 2019
Six Architects on their Dream Desks17 December 2019
– Roz Barr, Biba Dow, Elizabeth Hatz, Emma Letizia Jones, Stephanie Macdonald and Helen Thomas
Drawing Matter recently acquired this design for a table, below. Although the work’s last sale in 1972 attributed the drawing to Thomas Chippendale, we are (perhaps wishfully) hoping that it might be an architect’s own design for desk. The sheet set off a flurry of chatter about the platonic spaces… Read More
publication DMC elevation projection (axonometric isometric) detail furniture & object design presentation