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Exploring the role of drawing in architectural thought and practice.
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DRAWING MATTER ARCHITECTURE SUMMER SCHOOL 2026 - CALL FOR STUDENTS
The Architecture Summer School is back, and we’re looking for students!
Are you curious about architecture and the built environment? Are you keen to develop your spatial thinking and Drawing Skills? Were you born before 25.08.2010? Would you like to meet like-minded young people? Keep reading…
Founded in 2017, the free Drawing Matter Summer School, now in collaboration with the Zaha Hadid Foundation, aims to provide students (16+) from all backgrounds with a taste of architecture, both as an academic subject and as a future career.
We’re looking for Students to take part in our free Summer School, which will take place in London this August.
Over the course of four days, students will engage in collective and individual drawing and making exercises, learning how to see the city and formulate critical social thinking.
“What I enjoyed the most was finding out a new way of seeing space and the environment around me. Also meeting people with like minds, yet discovering everyone is unique in their own way.” — Summer School Student 2025
All photographs of 2025 Summer school by Anna-Rose McChesney.
Find out more about the Summer School and information about how to apply for a student place at drawingmatter.org
Application link in Bio.
DRAWING MATTER ARCHITECTURE SUMMER SCHOOL 2026 - CALL FOR STUDENTS
The Architecture Summer School is back, and we’re looking for students!
Are you curious about architecture and the built environment? Are you keen to develop your spatial thinking and Drawing Skills? Were you born before 25.08.2010? Would you like to meet like-minded young people? Keep reading…
Founded in 2017, the free Drawing Matter Summer School, now in collaboration with the Zaha Hadid Foundation, aims to provide students (16+) from all backgrounds with a taste of architecture, both as an academic subject and as a future career.
We’re looking for Students to take part in our free Summer School, which will take place in London this August.
Over the course of four days, students will engage in collective and individual drawing and making exercises, learning how to see the city and formulate critical social thinking.
“What I enjoyed the most was finding out a new way of seeing space and the environment around me. Also meeting people with like minds, yet discovering everyone is unique in their own way.” — Summer School Student 2025
All photographs of 2025 Summer school by Anna-Rose McChesney.
Find out more about the Summer School and information about how to apply for a student place at drawingmatter.org
Application link in Bio.
DRAWING MATTER ARCHITECTURE SUMMER SCHOOL 2026 - CALL FOR STUDENTS
The Architecture Summer School is back, and we’re looking for students!
Are you curious about architecture and the built environment? Are you keen to develop your spatial thinking and Drawing Skills? Were you born before 25.08.2010? Would you like to meet like-minded young people? Keep reading…
Founded in 2017, the free Drawing Matter Summer School, now in collaboration with the Zaha Hadid Foundation, aims to provide students (16+) from all backgrounds with a taste of architecture, both as an academic subject and as a future career.
We’re looking for Students to take part in our free Summer School, which will take place in London this August.
Over the course of four days, students will engage in collective and individual drawing and making exercises, learning how to see the city and formulate critical social thinking.
“What I enjoyed the most was finding out a new way of seeing space and the environment around me. Also meeting people with like minds, yet discovering everyone is unique in their own way.” — Summer School Student 2025
All photographs of 2025 Summer school by Anna-Rose McChesney.
Find out more about the Summer School and information about how to apply for a student place at drawingmatter.org
Application link in Bio.
DRAWING MATTER ARCHITECTURE SUMMER SCHOOL 2026 - CALL FOR STUDENTS
The Architecture Summer School is back, and we’re looking for students!
Are you curious about architecture and the built environment? Are you keen to develop your spatial thinking and Drawing Skills? Were you born before 25.08.2010? Would you like to meet like-minded young people? Keep reading…
Founded in 2017, the free Drawing Matter Summer School, now in collaboration with the Zaha Hadid Foundation, aims to provide students (16+) from all backgrounds with a taste of architecture, both as an academic subject and as a future career.
We’re looking for Students to take part in our free Summer School, which will take place in London this August.
Over the course of four days, students will engage in collective and individual drawing and making exercises, learning how to see the city and formulate critical social thinking.
“What I enjoyed the most was finding out a new way of seeing space and the environment around me. Also meeting people with like minds, yet discovering everyone is unique in their own way.” — Summer School Student 2025
All photographs of 2025 Summer school by Anna-Rose McChesney.
Find out more about the Summer School and information about how to apply for a student place at drawingmatter.org
Application link in Bio.
DRAWING MATTER ARCHITECTURE SUMMER SCHOOL 2026 - CALL FOR STUDENTS
The Architecture Summer School is back, and we’re looking for students!
Are you curious about architecture and the built environment? Are you keen to develop your spatial thinking and Drawing Skills? Were you born before 25.08.2010? Would you like to meet like-minded young people? Keep reading…
Founded in 2017, the free Drawing Matter Summer School, now in collaboration with the Zaha Hadid Foundation, aims to provide students (16+) from all backgrounds with a taste of architecture, both as an academic subject and as a future career.
We’re looking for Students to take part in our free Summer School, which will take place in London this August.
Over the course of four days, students will engage in collective and individual drawing and making exercises, learning how to see the city and formulate critical social thinking.
“What I enjoyed the most was finding out a new way of seeing space and the environment around me. Also meeting people with like minds, yet discovering everyone is unique in their own way.” — Summer School Student 2025
All photographs of 2025 Summer school by Anna-Rose McChesney.
Find out more about the Summer School and information about how to apply for a student place at drawingmatter.org
Application link in Bio.
DRAWING MATTER ARCHITECTURE SUMMER SCHOOL 2026 - CALL FOR STUDENTS
The Architecture Summer School is back, and we’re looking for students!
Are you curious about architecture and the built environment? Are you keen to develop your spatial thinking and Drawing Skills? Were you born before 25.08.2010? Would you like to meet like-minded young people? Keep reading…
Founded in 2017, the free Drawing Matter Summer School, now in collaboration with the Zaha Hadid Foundation, aims to provide students (16+) from all backgrounds with a taste of architecture, both as an academic subject and as a future career.
We’re looking for Students to take part in our free Summer School, which will take place in London this August.
Over the course of four days, students will engage in collective and individual drawing and making exercises, learning how to see the city and formulate critical social thinking.
“What I enjoyed the most was finding out a new way of seeing space and the environment around me. Also meeting people with like minds, yet discovering everyone is unique in their own way.” — Summer School Student 2025
All photographs of 2025 Summer school by Anna-Rose McChesney.
Find out more about the Summer School and information about how to apply for a student place at drawingmatter.org
Application link in Bio.
DRAWING MATTER ARCHITECTURE SUMMER SCHOOL 2026 - CALL FOR STUDENTS
The Architecture Summer School is back, and we’re looking for students!
Are you curious about architecture and the built environment? Are you keen to develop your spatial thinking and Drawing Skills? Were you born before 25.08.2010? Would you like to meet like-minded young people? Keep reading…
Founded in 2017, the free Drawing Matter Summer School, now in collaboration with the Zaha Hadid Foundation, aims to provide students (16+) from all backgrounds with a taste of architecture, both as an academic subject and as a future career.
We’re looking for Students to take part in our free Summer School, which will take place in London this August.
Over the course of four days, students will engage in collective and individual drawing and making exercises, learning how to see the city and formulate critical social thinking.
“What I enjoyed the most was finding out a new way of seeing space and the environment around me. Also meeting people with like minds, yet discovering everyone is unique in their own way.” — Summer School Student 2025
All photographs of 2025 Summer school by Anna-Rose McChesney.
Find out more about the Summer School and information about how to apply for a student place at drawingmatter.org
Application link in Bio.
DRAWING MATTER ARCHITECTURE SUMMER SCHOOL 2026 - CALL FOR STUDENTS
The Architecture Summer School is back, and we’re looking for students!
Are you curious about architecture and the built environment? Are you keen to develop your spatial thinking and Drawing Skills? Were you born before 25.08.2010? Would you like to meet like-minded young people? Keep reading…
Founded in 2017, the free Drawing Matter Summer School, now in collaboration with the Zaha Hadid Foundation, aims to provide students (16+) from all backgrounds with a taste of architecture, both as an academic subject and as a future career.
We’re looking for Students to take part in our free Summer School, which will take place in London this August.
Over the course of four days, students will engage in collective and individual drawing and making exercises, learning how to see the city and formulate critical social thinking.
“What I enjoyed the most was finding out a new way of seeing space and the environment around me. Also meeting people with like minds, yet discovering everyone is unique in their own way.” — Summer School Student 2025
All photographs of 2025 Summer school by Anna-Rose McChesney.
Find out more about the Summer School and information about how to apply for a student place at drawingmatter.org
Application link in Bio.
DRAWING MATTER ARCHITECTURE SUMMER SCHOOL 2026 - CALL FOR STUDENTS
The Architecture Summer School is back, and we’re looking for students!
Are you curious about architecture and the built environment? Are you keen to develop your spatial thinking and Drawing Skills? Were you born before 25.08.2010? Would you like to meet like-minded young people? Keep reading…
Founded in 2017, the free Drawing Matter Summer School, now in collaboration with the Zaha Hadid Foundation, aims to provide students (16+) from all backgrounds with a taste of architecture, both as an academic subject and as a future career.
We’re looking for Students to take part in our free Summer School, which will take place in London this August.
Over the course of four days, students will engage in collective and individual drawing and making exercises, learning how to see the city and formulate critical social thinking.
“What I enjoyed the most was finding out a new way of seeing space and the environment around me. Also meeting people with like minds, yet discovering everyone is unique in their own way.” — Summer School Student 2025
All photographs of 2025 Summer school by Anna-Rose McChesney.
Find out more about the Summer School and information about how to apply for a student place at drawingmatter.org
Application link in Bio.
DRAWING MATTER ARCHITECTURE SUMMER SCHOOL 2026 - CALL FOR STUDENTS
The Architecture Summer School is back, and we’re looking for students!
Are you curious about architecture and the built environment? Are you keen to develop your spatial thinking and Drawing Skills? Were you born before 25.08.2010? Would you like to meet like-minded young people? Keep reading…
Founded in 2017, the free Drawing Matter Summer School, now in collaboration with the Zaha Hadid Foundation, aims to provide students (16+) from all backgrounds with a taste of architecture, both as an academic subject and as a future career.
We’re looking for Students to take part in our free Summer School, which will take place in London this August.
Over the course of four days, students will engage in collective and individual drawing and making exercises, learning how to see the city and formulate critical social thinking.
“What I enjoyed the most was finding out a new way of seeing space and the environment around me. Also meeting people with like minds, yet discovering everyone is unique in their own way.” — Summer School Student 2025
All photographs of 2025 Summer school by Anna-Rose McChesney.
Find out more about the Summer School and information about how to apply for a student place at drawingmatter.org
Application link in Bio.
DRAWING MATTER ARCHITECTURE SUMMER SCHOOL 2026 - CALL FOR STUDENTS
The Architecture Summer School is back, and we’re looking for students!
Are you curious about architecture and the built environment? Are you keen to develop your spatial thinking and Drawing Skills? Were you born before 25.08.2010? Would you like to meet like-minded young people? Keep reading…
Founded in 2017, the free Drawing Matter Summer School, now in collaboration with the Zaha Hadid Foundation, aims to provide students (16+) from all backgrounds with a taste of architecture, both as an academic subject and as a future career.
We’re looking for Students to take part in our free Summer School, which will take place in London this August.
Over the course of four days, students will engage in collective and individual drawing and making exercises, learning how to see the city and formulate critical social thinking.
“What I enjoyed the most was finding out a new way of seeing space and the environment around me. Also meeting people with like minds, yet discovering everyone is unique in their own way.” — Summer School Student 2025
All photographs of 2025 Summer school by Anna-Rose McChesney.
Find out more about the Summer School and information about how to apply for a student place at drawingmatter.org
Application link in Bio.
DRAWING MATTER ARCHITECTURE SUMMER SCHOOL 2026 - CALL FOR STUDENTS
The Architecture Summer School is back, and we’re looking for students!
Are you curious about architecture and the built environment? Are you keen to develop your spatial thinking and Drawing Skills? Were you born before 25.08.2010? Would you like to meet like-minded young people? Keep reading…
Founded in 2017, the free Drawing Matter Summer School, now in collaboration with the Zaha Hadid Foundation, aims to provide students (16+) from all backgrounds with a taste of architecture, both as an academic subject and as a future career.
We’re looking for Students to take part in our free Summer School, which will take place in London this August.
Over the course of four days, students will engage in collective and individual drawing and making exercises, learning how to see the city and formulate critical social thinking.
“What I enjoyed the most was finding out a new way of seeing space and the environment around me. Also meeting people with like minds, yet discovering everyone is unique in their own way.” — Summer School Student 2025
All photographs of 2025 Summer school by Anna-Rose McChesney.
Find out more about the Summer School and information about how to apply for a student place at drawingmatter.org
Application link in Bio.
NEW TEXT ON DRAWING MATTER
“We have come to doubt the real necessity of being exposed to original artefacts, as we find ourselves drowned in a deluge of endless reproductions. Why bother visiting galleries and museums when one can check stuff on the web? A picture of teenagers scrolling their cellphones in front of a painting by Rembrandt at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam that became viral online in 2016 has come to epitomise our indifferent relationship to the vestiges of the past. Shot by Gijsbert van der Wal—and reminiscent of the series of museum pictures by German artist Thomas Struth—the photograph prompted outraged comments about teenagers’ addiction to screens. These turned out to be quite unfair as the students, in fact, had been tasked by their professors to access the museum’s application at the end of their visit and obtain further information about what they had just seen, gallery after gallery.”
Fabrizio Gallanti reviews the Denise Scott Brown exhibition in Bilbao.
Find ‘The Incessant Power of Drawings’ on drawingmatter.org
NEW TEXT ON DRAWING MATTER
“We have come to doubt the real necessity of being exposed to original artefacts, as we find ourselves drowned in a deluge of endless reproductions. Why bother visiting galleries and museums when one can check stuff on the web? A picture of teenagers scrolling their cellphones in front of a painting by Rembrandt at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam that became viral online in 2016 has come to epitomise our indifferent relationship to the vestiges of the past. Shot by Gijsbert van der Wal—and reminiscent of the series of museum pictures by German artist Thomas Struth—the photograph prompted outraged comments about teenagers’ addiction to screens. These turned out to be quite unfair as the students, in fact, had been tasked by their professors to access the museum’s application at the end of their visit and obtain further information about what they had just seen, gallery after gallery.”
Fabrizio Gallanti reviews the Denise Scott Brown exhibition in Bilbao.
Find ‘The Incessant Power of Drawings’ on drawingmatter.org
DRAWING FROM CLOUDS WORKSHOP WITH MARK WEST
“A way of developing and arousing the mind to various inventions
I cannot forbear to mention among these precepts a device for study which, although it may seem but trivial and almost ludicrous, is nevertheless extremely useful in arousing the mind to various inventions. And this is, when you look at a wall spotted with stains, or with a mixture of stones, if you have to devise some scene, you may discover a resemblance to various landscapes, beautified with mountains, rivers, rocks, trees, plains, wide valleys and hills in varied arrangement; or, again, you may see battles and figures in action; or strange faces and costumes, and an endless variety of objects, which you could reduce to complete and well drawn forms. And these appear on such walls confusedly, like the sound of bells in whose jangle you may find any name or word you choose to imagine.”
Thank you to all workshop participants. We had a wonderful day.
Photographs by Matthew Poon and members of the Drawing Matter team.
Find out more information about upcoming Public Programme events at drawingmatter.org
DRAWING FROM CLOUDS WORKSHOP WITH MARK WEST
“A way of developing and arousing the mind to various inventions
I cannot forbear to mention among these precepts a device for study which, although it may seem but trivial and almost ludicrous, is nevertheless extremely useful in arousing the mind to various inventions. And this is, when you look at a wall spotted with stains, or with a mixture of stones, if you have to devise some scene, you may discover a resemblance to various landscapes, beautified with mountains, rivers, rocks, trees, plains, wide valleys and hills in varied arrangement; or, again, you may see battles and figures in action; or strange faces and costumes, and an endless variety of objects, which you could reduce to complete and well drawn forms. And these appear on such walls confusedly, like the sound of bells in whose jangle you may find any name or word you choose to imagine.”
Thank you to all workshop participants. We had a wonderful day.
Photographs by Matthew Poon and members of the Drawing Matter team.
Find out more information about upcoming Public Programme events at drawingmatter.org
DRAWING FROM CLOUDS WORKSHOP WITH MARK WEST
“A way of developing and arousing the mind to various inventions
I cannot forbear to mention among these precepts a device for study which, although it may seem but trivial and almost ludicrous, is nevertheless extremely useful in arousing the mind to various inventions. And this is, when you look at a wall spotted with stains, or with a mixture of stones, if you have to devise some scene, you may discover a resemblance to various landscapes, beautified with mountains, rivers, rocks, trees, plains, wide valleys and hills in varied arrangement; or, again, you may see battles and figures in action; or strange faces and costumes, and an endless variety of objects, which you could reduce to complete and well drawn forms. And these appear on such walls confusedly, like the sound of bells in whose jangle you may find any name or word you choose to imagine.”
Thank you to all workshop participants. We had a wonderful day.
Photographs by Matthew Poon and members of the Drawing Matter team.
Find out more information about upcoming Public Programme events at drawingmatter.org
DRAWING FROM CLOUDS WORKSHOP WITH MARK WEST
“A way of developing and arousing the mind to various inventions
I cannot forbear to mention among these precepts a device for study which, although it may seem but trivial and almost ludicrous, is nevertheless extremely useful in arousing the mind to various inventions. And this is, when you look at a wall spotted with stains, or with a mixture of stones, if you have to devise some scene, you may discover a resemblance to various landscapes, beautified with mountains, rivers, rocks, trees, plains, wide valleys and hills in varied arrangement; or, again, you may see battles and figures in action; or strange faces and costumes, and an endless variety of objects, which you could reduce to complete and well drawn forms. And these appear on such walls confusedly, like the sound of bells in whose jangle you may find any name or word you choose to imagine.”
Thank you to all workshop participants. We had a wonderful day.
Photographs by Matthew Poon and members of the Drawing Matter team.
Find out more information about upcoming Public Programme events at drawingmatter.org
DRAWING FROM CLOUDS WORKSHOP WITH MARK WEST
“A way of developing and arousing the mind to various inventions
I cannot forbear to mention among these precepts a device for study which, although it may seem but trivial and almost ludicrous, is nevertheless extremely useful in arousing the mind to various inventions. And this is, when you look at a wall spotted with stains, or with a mixture of stones, if you have to devise some scene, you may discover a resemblance to various landscapes, beautified with mountains, rivers, rocks, trees, plains, wide valleys and hills in varied arrangement; or, again, you may see battles and figures in action; or strange faces and costumes, and an endless variety of objects, which you could reduce to complete and well drawn forms. And these appear on such walls confusedly, like the sound of bells in whose jangle you may find any name or word you choose to imagine.”
Thank you to all workshop participants. We had a wonderful day.
Photographs by Matthew Poon and members of the Drawing Matter team.
Find out more information about upcoming Public Programme events at drawingmatter.org
DRAWING FROM CLOUDS WORKSHOP WITH MARK WEST
“A way of developing and arousing the mind to various inventions
I cannot forbear to mention among these precepts a device for study which, although it may seem but trivial and almost ludicrous, is nevertheless extremely useful in arousing the mind to various inventions. And this is, when you look at a wall spotted with stains, or with a mixture of stones, if you have to devise some scene, you may discover a resemblance to various landscapes, beautified with mountains, rivers, rocks, trees, plains, wide valleys and hills in varied arrangement; or, again, you may see battles and figures in action; or strange faces and costumes, and an endless variety of objects, which you could reduce to complete and well drawn forms. And these appear on such walls confusedly, like the sound of bells in whose jangle you may find any name or word you choose to imagine.”
Thank you to all workshop participants. We had a wonderful day.
Photographs by Matthew Poon and members of the Drawing Matter team.
Find out more information about upcoming Public Programme events at drawingmatter.org
DRAWING FROM CLOUDS WORKSHOP WITH MARK WEST
“A way of developing and arousing the mind to various inventions
I cannot forbear to mention among these precepts a device for study which, although it may seem but trivial and almost ludicrous, is nevertheless extremely useful in arousing the mind to various inventions. And this is, when you look at a wall spotted with stains, or with a mixture of stones, if you have to devise some scene, you may discover a resemblance to various landscapes, beautified with mountains, rivers, rocks, trees, plains, wide valleys and hills in varied arrangement; or, again, you may see battles and figures in action; or strange faces and costumes, and an endless variety of objects, which you could reduce to complete and well drawn forms. And these appear on such walls confusedly, like the sound of bells in whose jangle you may find any name or word you choose to imagine.”
Thank you to all workshop participants. We had a wonderful day.
Photographs by Matthew Poon and members of the Drawing Matter team.
Find out more information about upcoming Public Programme events at drawingmatter.org
DRAWING FROM CLOUDS WORKSHOP WITH MARK WEST
“A way of developing and arousing the mind to various inventions
I cannot forbear to mention among these precepts a device for study which, although it may seem but trivial and almost ludicrous, is nevertheless extremely useful in arousing the mind to various inventions. And this is, when you look at a wall spotted with stains, or with a mixture of stones, if you have to devise some scene, you may discover a resemblance to various landscapes, beautified with mountains, rivers, rocks, trees, plains, wide valleys and hills in varied arrangement; or, again, you may see battles and figures in action; or strange faces and costumes, and an endless variety of objects, which you could reduce to complete and well drawn forms. And these appear on such walls confusedly, like the sound of bells in whose jangle you may find any name or word you choose to imagine.”
Thank you to all workshop participants. We had a wonderful day.
Photographs by Matthew Poon and members of the Drawing Matter team.
Find out more information about upcoming Public Programme events at drawingmatter.org
DRAWING FROM CLOUDS WORKSHOP WITH MARK WEST
“A way of developing and arousing the mind to various inventions
I cannot forbear to mention among these precepts a device for study which, although it may seem but trivial and almost ludicrous, is nevertheless extremely useful in arousing the mind to various inventions. And this is, when you look at a wall spotted with stains, or with a mixture of stones, if you have to devise some scene, you may discover a resemblance to various landscapes, beautified with mountains, rivers, rocks, trees, plains, wide valleys and hills in varied arrangement; or, again, you may see battles and figures in action; or strange faces and costumes, and an endless variety of objects, which you could reduce to complete and well drawn forms. And these appear on such walls confusedly, like the sound of bells in whose jangle you may find any name or word you choose to imagine.”
Thank you to all workshop participants. We had a wonderful day.
Photographs by Matthew Poon and members of the Drawing Matter team.
Find out more information about upcoming Public Programme events at drawingmatter.org
DRAWING FROM CLOUDS WORKSHOP WITH MARK WEST
“A way of developing and arousing the mind to various inventions
I cannot forbear to mention among these precepts a device for study which, although it may seem but trivial and almost ludicrous, is nevertheless extremely useful in arousing the mind to various inventions. And this is, when you look at a wall spotted with stains, or with a mixture of stones, if you have to devise some scene, you may discover a resemblance to various landscapes, beautified with mountains, rivers, rocks, trees, plains, wide valleys and hills in varied arrangement; or, again, you may see battles and figures in action; or strange faces and costumes, and an endless variety of objects, which you could reduce to complete and well drawn forms. And these appear on such walls confusedly, like the sound of bells in whose jangle you may find any name or word you choose to imagine.”
Thank you to all workshop participants. We had a wonderful day.
Photographs by Matthew Poon and members of the Drawing Matter team.
Find out more information about upcoming Public Programme events at drawingmatter.org
NEW TEXT ON DRAWING MATTER
“The ‘Typewriter’ drawing is made on brown paper mounted on a black backing, its surface carrying both the mechanical impressions of a typewriter and the analogue traces of a black pen layered above them. But unlike later typewriter drawings, which use typed characters as grids, codes, or proto-digital marks, this one is strikingly pictorial. What should read as standardised typographic elements instead begins to dissolve into a field of analogue inscriptions. Typed ‘xxx’, ‘990’, and ‘(((’ drift into hand-drawn strokes, while typewritten birds and clouds float above firmly delineated cranes and scaffolding. The distinction between machine and hand falters. What should be rigid becomes intuitive; what should be systematic becomes atmospheric. The drawing’s media do not stay in their proper places.”
Read Valeriia Chemerisova’s text about our typewriter drawing on drawingmatter.org
NEW TEXT ON DRAWING MATTER
“The ‘Typewriter’ drawing is made on brown paper mounted on a black backing, its surface carrying both the mechanical impressions of a typewriter and the analogue traces of a black pen layered above them. But unlike later typewriter drawings, which use typed characters as grids, codes, or proto-digital marks, this one is strikingly pictorial. What should read as standardised typographic elements instead begins to dissolve into a field of analogue inscriptions. Typed ‘xxx’, ‘990’, and ‘(((’ drift into hand-drawn strokes, while typewritten birds and clouds float above firmly delineated cranes and scaffolding. The distinction between machine and hand falters. What should be rigid becomes intuitive; what should be systematic becomes atmospheric. The drawing’s media do not stay in their proper places.”
Read Valeriia Chemerisova’s text about our typewriter drawing on drawingmatter.org
IN THE COLLECTION
Pierre François Léonard Fontaine, 2me Projet d’un Marché pour une grande ville, France, 1820. Pencil, black pen, grey and coloured washes on laid paper, sheet mounted with a border of gold paint, black and green washes on card, 430 x 255mm (drawing) mounted on 605 x 455mm (sheet). DMC 1711.2.
Explore the collection online at drawingmattercollections.com
IN THE COLLECTION
Pierre François Léonard Fontaine, 2me Projet d’un Marché pour une grande ville, France, 1820. Pencil, black pen, grey and coloured washes on laid paper, sheet mounted with a border of gold paint, black and green washes on card, 430 x 255mm (drawing) mounted on 605 x 455mm (sheet). DMC 1711.2.
Explore the collection online at drawingmattercollections.com
IN THE COLLECTION
Pierre François Léonard Fontaine, 2me Projet d’un Marché pour une grande ville, France, 1820. Pencil, black pen, grey and coloured washes on laid paper, sheet mounted with a border of gold paint, black and green washes on card, 430 x 255mm (drawing) mounted on 605 x 455mm (sheet). DMC 1711.2.
Explore the collection online at drawingmattercollections.com
NEW TEXT ON DRAWING MATTER
“On the 12th of March 1968, Scottish concrete poet Ian Hamilton Finlay wrote, as he did frequently throughout the late 1960s, to friend and architect Philip Steadman. ‘Dear Phil,’ he began, ‘I have been meaning for some time to ask if you could help me with some rough drawings, of the sort that architects do, to suggest an incomplete project. […] The idea is that the drawings should suggest my ‘cloud’ project.’ Though ‘the poem part of this is complete’, he continues, ‘the winter season prevents my photographing the finished thing.’”
Read Lola Gabellini-Fava’s text ‘Ian Hamilton Finlay’s Cloud Board and the Architectural Drawing’ on drawingmatter.org
NEW TEXT ON DRAWING MATTER
“On the 12th of March 1968, Scottish concrete poet Ian Hamilton Finlay wrote, as he did frequently throughout the late 1960s, to friend and architect Philip Steadman. ‘Dear Phil,’ he began, ‘I have been meaning for some time to ask if you could help me with some rough drawings, of the sort that architects do, to suggest an incomplete project. […] The idea is that the drawings should suggest my ‘cloud’ project.’ Though ‘the poem part of this is complete’, he continues, ‘the winter season prevents my photographing the finished thing.’”
Read Lola Gabellini-Fava’s text ‘Ian Hamilton Finlay’s Cloud Board and the Architectural Drawing’ on drawingmatter.org
IN THE COLLECTION
Saint Félix Seheult, Théatre de verdure, France, 1813. Pen, ink, and watercolour on laid paper, 650 x 540mm. DMC 2476.1.
Explore the collection online at drawingmattercollections.com
IN THE COLLECTION
Saint Félix Seheult, Théatre de verdure, France, 1813. Pen, ink, and watercolour on laid paper, 650 x 540mm. DMC 2476.1.
Explore the collection online at drawingmattercollections.com
IN THE COLLECTION
Saint Félix Seheult, Théatre de verdure, France, 1813. Pen, ink, and watercolour on laid paper, 650 x 540mm. DMC 2476.1.
Explore the collection online at drawingmattercollections.com
NEW TEXT ON DRAWING MATTER
“In the home economics theory of domestic space, a necessary and pivotal condition allowing the homemaker to work out and practice more ‘efficient’ routines, and thereby decrease her domestic drudgery, was the design of home interior. This included the arrangement of the objects of daily use. Conceptualising the space as a derivative of the above-described working body and its movements, in their design ideas home economists privileged the key category of ‘reach,’ understood primarily as the distance at which the homemaker had to stretch out her arm to grasp needed objects.”
Find ‘The Principle of ‘Reach’’ on drawingmatter.org
NEW TEXT ON DRAWING MATTER
“In the home economics theory of domestic space, a necessary and pivotal condition allowing the homemaker to work out and practice more ‘efficient’ routines, and thereby decrease her domestic drudgery, was the design of home interior. This included the arrangement of the objects of daily use. Conceptualising the space as a derivative of the above-described working body and its movements, in their design ideas home economists privileged the key category of ‘reach,’ understood primarily as the distance at which the homemaker had to stretch out her arm to grasp needed objects.”
Find ‘The Principle of ‘Reach’’ on drawingmatter.org
IN THE COLLECTION
Unknown French, Projet pour une façade d’immeuble administratif, France, date unknown. Pen, pencil, ink, watercolour, and gouache, 850 x 1240 mm. DMC 3877.1.
Explore the collection online at drawingmattercollections.com
IN THE COLLECTION
Unknown French, Projet pour une façade d’immeuble administratif, France, date unknown. Pen, pencil, ink, watercolour, and gouache, 850 x 1240 mm. DMC 3877.1.
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Unknown French, Projet pour une façade d’immeuble administratif, France, date unknown. Pen, pencil, ink, watercolour, and gouache, 850 x 1240 mm. DMC 3877.1.
Explore the collection online at drawingmattercollections.com
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Maristella Casciato examines DMC material related to the Open Hand.
Read ‘The Open Hand Reloaded’ on drawingmatter.org
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Maristella Casciato examines DMC material related to the Open Hand.
Read ‘The Open Hand Reloaded’ on drawingmatter.org
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Peter Wilson, Preparatory drawing for Ninja Comfortable House, The Electronic Metropolis, Japan, 1989. Pencil and Coloured Crayon on Tracing Paper, 296 x 420 mm. DMC 3117.2.
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IN THE COLLECTION
Peter Wilson, Preparatory drawing for Ninja Comfortable House, The Electronic Metropolis, Japan, 1989. Pencil and Coloured Crayon on Tracing Paper, 296 x 420 mm. DMC 3117.2.
Explore the collection online at drawingmatter.org
IN THE COLLECTION
Peter Wilson, Preparatory drawing for Ninja Comfortable House, The Electronic Metropolis, Japan, 1989. Pencil and Coloured Crayon on Tracing Paper, 296 x 420 mm. DMC 3117.2.
Explore the collection online at drawingmatter.org
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To mark the opening of Chandigarh’s Indian Modernists at the Government Museum and Art Gallery, Chandigarh (28 February–25 April 2026), the exhibition’s curators — Deepika Gandhi, Eashan Chaufla, Vikramaditya Prakash, and Maristella Casciato — sat down to talk about modernism in an Indian context, and the importance of thinking about Chandigarh’s multiple authors. A transcript of thier conversation, illustrated with objects included in the exhibition, can now be found on the Drawing Matter website.
Read ‘Chandigarh’s Forgotten Modernists’ on drawingmatter.org
NEW TEXT ON DRAWING MATTER
To mark the opening of Chandigarh’s Indian Modernists at the Government Museum and Art Gallery, Chandigarh (28 February–25 April 2026), the exhibition’s curators — Deepika Gandhi, Eashan Chaufla, Vikramaditya Prakash, and Maristella Casciato — sat down to talk about modernism in an Indian context, and the importance of thinking about Chandigarh’s multiple authors. A transcript of thier conversation, illustrated with objects included in the exhibition, can now be found on the Drawing Matter website.
Read ‘Chandigarh’s Forgotten Modernists’ on drawingmatter.org
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