Writer: Mark Dorrian
Liquid Paper
15 November 2019
Liquid Paper15 November 2019
By Mark Dorrian
In ‘The Praise of Hemp-Seed’, John Taylor – the self-styled Jacobean ‘water poet’ – at one point asks why poets have never sung the virtues of the plant before. It is, he answers himself, because their words run dry in the face of the limitless goods it brings – ‘The… Read More
Drawing, Movement and Medium: Mark Dorrian in conversation with Michael Webb, Episode 3
21 January 2019
Drawing, Movement and Medium: Mark Dorrian in conversation with Michael Webb, Episode 321 January 2019
By Mark Dorrian and Michael Webb
The third episode of Michael Webb’s conversation with Mark Dorrian resumes with the fate of the Sin Centre model. The piece is published to mark the entry of the first part of a new model of the Sin Centre into the Drawing Matter collection. The conversation took place on Wednesday,… Read More
Drawing, Movement and Medium: Michael Webb in conversation with Mark Dorrian, Episode 2
21 January 2019
Drawing, Movement and Medium: Michael Webb in conversation with Mark Dorrian, Episode 221 January 2019
By Mark Dorrian and Michael Webb
Mark Dorrian: I’ve loaded some images – Michael, by the way, doesn’t know what’s coming up. After showing this, the drawing of the building, I thought it would be useful to show a couple of slides about the context in which this project then appeared. The Furniture Manufacturers Building is… Read More
Drawing, Movement and Medium: Michael Webb in conversation with Mark Dorrian, Episode 1
19 January 2019
Drawing, Movement and Medium: Michael Webb in conversation with Mark Dorrian, Episode 119 January 2019
By Mark Dorrian and Michael Webb
Mark Dorrian: Hello everyone – it’s a real pleasure to welcome Professor Michael Webb, our George Simpson Visiting Professor this year. Michael is a very important and interesting architect, closely associated with Archigram, of which he was a member. He has a fascinating architectural trajectory and development, which involves the early… Read More
Notes on the Sketchbook
19 February 2018
Notes on the Sketchbook19 February 2018
By Mark Dorrian
When we talk about the sketchbook what do we mean? Its complexity is reflected in the difficulty we experience – in many examples, at any rate – in straightforwardly attaching a name to it, for there are times it might seem to be equally a notebook, a journal, a diary,… Read More
Michael Webb
1 February 2017
Michael Webb1 February 2017
By Mark Dorrian
In his drawings for the Sin Centre, Michael Webb constantly returns to the parts of the project that are to do with movement – the undulant mechanical escalators and the complex vehicle system through which cars enter and flow through the building on ramps that loop around, cross over and… Read More
Pan Scroll Zoom 20: 10PM in Inner Mongolia
23 February 2022
Pan Scroll Zoom 20: 10PM in Inner Mongolia23 February 2022
By Mark Dorrian
This is the final episode in the Pan Scroll Zoom series, edited by Fabrizio Gallanti. It was written in April 2021 and first published in print in Drawing Matter Extracts 3: Pan Scroll Zoom. Mark Dorrian is the Forbes Chair in Architecture at the Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape… Read More
Teaching (project) Pan Scroll Zoom (series)