DISCOVERING THE BOUNDLESS POSSIBILITIES OF DRAWING: DRAWING MATTER
Drawing Matter, as the name suggests, is an organisation dedicated to elevating the importance of architectural drawing. Drawing Matter plans and implements exhibitions, publications, and education based on their architectural archive, the ‘Drawing Matter Collection’, which spans the sixteenth-century to the present. The organisation specialises in producing critiques of drawings that employ diverse methods and means of expression. This demonstrates how drawing is more than just a supportive structure or tool vested in architecture, but also has the potential to be an independent work of art or design or to be a large window into an enriched perspective of architecture. SPACE spoke with Matt Page, the deputy director and editor of Drawing Matter, about the possibilities of drawing as action.
Park Semi (Park): Drawing Matter is an organisation that explores the role of drawing in architectural thinking and practice. Through what initiative, when, and by whom was this organisation established?
Matt Page (Page): Drawing Matter was established about ten years ago by the collector Niall Hobhouse, a trustee of the Drawing Matter Trust and the Director of Drawing Matter. It was set up to propose alternative ways of collecting and
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