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Peter Märkli: My Facade Material
21 April 2021
Peter Märkli: My Facade Material21 April 2021
By Editors
The following quotations are from ‘Mein Stoff für Fassaden (My Facade Material)’, a lecture delivered online by Peter Märkli to open a series of five talks for the Architecture Foundation. The quotations are presented here in a loose fashion, some treated as aphorisms about design, others illustrated with drawings from… Read More
Cedric Price: Westal Market Stall Prototypes
1 March 2021
Cedric Price: Westal Market Stall Prototypes1 March 2021
Take One: Architects on Drawing
23 February 2021
Take One: Architects on Drawing23 February 2021
By Editors
Take One is a collaboration between Drawing Matter and the Architects’ Lives oral history project run by National Life Stories. Each episode pairs a drawing or visual element with a short audio extract, showing the image alongside the voice of its creator or an informed commentator. The audio extracts are taken from life… Read More
Review: Singing Songs of Piccadilly
16 February 2021
Review: Singing Songs of Piccadilly16 February 2021
By Editors
Niall Hobhouse writes about The Buildings of Green Park by Andrew Jones. To purchase the book, click here. Green Park, a pair of anecdotes: 1. Queen Caroline – ‘What would it cost, Sir Robert, to close the Park to the public?’ Walpole – ‘May it please your Majesty, but Three Crowns –… Read More
Christmas Reading List 2020
22 December 2020
Christmas Reading List 202022 December 2020
By Editors
At the end of this strange and complicated year, the Drawing Matter editors have invited the winners of our Writing Prize to help us reflect on the new writing published on drawingmatter.org since January 2020. We gave them the challenge of choosing just twelve of the 150 texts that we’ve published… Read More
Gabriel Pierre Martin Dumont
7 January 2018
Gabriel Pierre Martin Dumont7 January 2018
By Editors
This large and exquisite drawing by Gabriel Pierre Martin Dumont represents a garden design in the form of the plan of St Peter’s Basilica and Piazza by Bernini. Serried ranks of trees rather than stone walls and columns are used to marshal a vast landscape into a perfect emblem of… Read More
Nuobo Sekine: Phase of Nothingness
27 April 2021
Nuobo Sekine: Phase of Nothingness27 April 2021
By Editors
With thanks to Nicholas Olsberg for sending us this tribute to Sekine written on the first anniversary of the artist’s death (linked here).
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