Writer: Benjamin Machin

On Tony Fretton’s Sketchbook, 1981 (Video)
17.07.2026

On Tony Fretton’s Sketchbook, 1981 (Video) 17.07.2026

Tony Fretton’s earliest sketchbooks contained within the collection at Drawing Matter are not records of projects developing page by page. They are stranger and more useful than that. Notes, sketches, references, lists, details, business, fragments of furniture and architecture sit beside one another without much concern for order. For an… Read More

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Reflections on The Drawing Matter Archive
03.05.2022

Reflections on The Drawing Matter Archive03.05.2022

– 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

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Design Starts: Loughborough School of Architecture at Shatwell Farm
03.05.2022

Design Starts: Loughborough School of Architecture at Shatwell Farm03.05.2022

– Benjamin Machin

The following is an account of a visit to Drawing Matter in March 2022 made by Benjamin Machin and his students at the Loughborough School of Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering – Alina Abdulwahid, Nyewuna Amadi, Jemima Dabell, Beckie Downs, Lewis Foster-Jeapes, Will Jones, Will Mennell, Danielle Riley, Joe Tolley,… Read More

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