OPEN WORKSHOP
DUE TO STUDENT AVAILABILITY THE WORKSHOP WILL NOW TAKE PLACE ON 17 JUNE.
We are excited to launch a new series of Open workshops for students and young practitioners. Members of the Drawing Matter London team will lead discussions around selected drawings from the collection in our archive space in Holborn.
The first workshop will take place on 17.06.2026 from 15.00 - 16.30. It will be led by Rosie Ellison-Balaam and will focus on our holdings of 20th-century Italian material (futurists, rationalists, radicals, etc.), including drawings by Terragni, Moretti, Sironi, Archizoom, Superstudio, and Aldo Rossi.
Spaces are free, but limited. No prior knowledge is expected, we want to create a space for open conversations! Please email [email protected] to reserve your place.
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.
IN THE COLLECTION
Emil Hoppe, Designs for the Ludwig Tomb, Kalksburg, Vienna, Austria, c. 1904. Pencil, black ink, coloured washes, colour crayon and gouache on paper, 271 x 244 mm. DMC 1933 and 1934.
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NEW TEXT ON DRAWING MATTER
“To draw lines that represent light and sound, the aim was to make them distinguishable from those representing built matter. The choice of line types became somewhat intuitive—squiggly waves for sound and sharp, sometimes dotted, lines for light. The drawing is an exploration in communicating a space not made from built matter.”
Read Leo Julin’s text ‘Drawing Superpositions’ on drawingmatter.org
IN THE COLLECTION
Jean Charles Moreux, Projet d’ameublement de l’un des ateliers d’artistes, Immeuble d’habitation à loyer modéré à Paris, programme mixte de logements et d’ateliers d’artistes, France, 1925. DMC 2272.4.1 and DMC 3340.1
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NEW TEXT ON DRAWING MATTER
“‘Drawing-as-object’ has acted then as the true steward of ‘drawing-as-idea’; the two holding fast to each other, for the duration of their journey at least, through the specificity of their original purpose or of the audiences to whom they are shown.”
Niall Hobhouse’s entry for Drawing, in Provenance in Architecture, A Dictionary (Berlin: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2025).
Read ‘Provenance in Architecture, A Dictionary: Architectural Drawing’ on drawingmatter.org
IN THE COLLECTION
Willem Jan Neutelings, OMA, Typological study of Scheveningen, The Hague Project, ‘Circustheater’, Netherlands, 1982. Ink and crayon on tracing paper, 297 x 420 mm. DMC 3000.5.
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NEW TEXT ON DRAWING MATTER
“And that underlying structure is sometimes only implied. When the squares of colour are grouped like this, oblique lines are made by the eye as it moves between similar corners, gradually noticing that the squares themselves have been truncated at some edges, as though disappearing into—or behind—the surrounding whiteness. Even when the ruled lines are brought almost to the surface, in what might be taken for a three-dimensional architectural or geometric projection, the stronger marks break through the implied planes and flatten them back onto paper, and into life.”
Freddie Phillipson reviews Philip Christou’s 34 Drawings. The drawings were exhibited at Between People Gallery, University of East London, 22 January – 7 February 2026.
Read Freddie Phillipson’s review on drawingmatter.org
IN THE COLLECTION
Walter Gropius, Kitchen, plan and elevation, Germany, 1920-1930s. Pencil and red crayon on tracing paper, 350 x 660 mm. DMC 3492.7.
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LIFETIMES IN DESIGN: THE COLLECTIONS OF CHRISTOPHER SMALLWOOD, AND NIALL HOBHOUSE
On 13 May 2026, Dreweatts will hold a sale of items from the Collection of Niall Hobhouse.
Niall is the founder and director of Drawing Matter, where we explore the role of drawing in architectural thought and practice, through workshops, public events, exhibitions and publications.
Due to spatial constraints in our new London home, several items from the Drawing Matter Collection will be up for sale, including furniture and toys that belonged to Cedric Price, furniture from the studio of Vittorio Ballio Morpurgo, an architectural model by Aldo Rossi, an early photographic artwork by Derek Boshier, and a blueprint for Kiosk no.2 (K2) by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott.
Proceeds from the sale will go to the Drawing Matter Trust to support its ongoing activities.
Find out more information through the link in bio.
NEW TEXT ON DRAWING MATTER
A fictional text was extracted from William Firebrace’s Scaletales (Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, Köln, 2026). The book investigates the various meanings of the word scale through a story about two elderly women on a journey from Finland through central Europe to the Black Sea. They encounter different scales and question the place of scale in their private lives. The tales are narrated twice: first as a drawing, second as a text.
Read ‘Dr Franz Gibarian’s Lecture’ on drawingmatter.org
IN THE COLLECTION
Louis François Sébastien Fauvel, Measuring Pompey’s Pillar, Egypt, 1789. Pencil and watercolour, 473 x 285 mm. DMC 2215.
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