Writer: Jonah Ginsburg

Superstudio’s Collage Chest: A Chance Machine

Superstudio’s Collage Chest: A Chance Machine

Jonah Ginsburg

In 1968 Adolfo Natalini’s partner, Frances Brunton, returned to Florence from London with their newborn daughter and a small wooden chest with five drawers. On three sides of the chest, Natalini hand painted sky-blue flowers on an orange background. The chest of drawers was then taken to the Superstudio-studio in… Read More

Reflections on The Drawing Matter Archive

Reflections on The Drawing Matter Archive

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

Reflections on my Internship

Reflections on my Internship

Jonah Ginsburg

In April 2021, I hesitantly emailed the editors at Drawing Matter to ask if they were currently accepting internship applications. Why would the Drawing Matter team want to burden themselves with an inexperienced and most likely unhelpful American intern? They had no established internship program, Covid-19 cases were on the… Read More

The Silo at 40Hz

The Silo at 40Hz

Joe Banks and Jonah Ginsburg

DISINFORMATION, CLOSED CIRCUIT, 2021Video documentation recorded on August 1, 2021 – the last day of the installation. Headphones recommended. ‘Architecture is the simplest means of articulating time and space, of modulating reality and [of] engendering dreams’, and, perhaps paradoxically, in the silo at Shatwell, a familiar architectural form is re-purposed… Read More

Building the Gowan Shed

Building the Gowan Shed

Jonah Ginsburg

Through the week of July 12–17, thirteen young architects camped at Shatwell Farm in order to realise a shed from an enigmatic early drawing by James Gowan. The workshop was initiated and led by Maria-Chiara Piccinelli of PiM.studio and Corinna Dean of ARCA. This film portrays the (re)design and construction… Read More