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Drawing Matter Writing Prize 2021 2020 winners The Drawing Matter Trust has launched a second writing contest featuring a £4,000 prize fund [Deadline: 1 June 2021] The competition – now in its second year – invites people aged over 18 to submit a short essay that explores the role of drawings in the ‘process of design, and the buildings or objects they represent’. Advertisement The call for submissions aims to generate a number of texts that respond to items within the Drawing Matter collection – an archive of architects’ drawings, designed by Hugh Strange and located in rural So...

Copy It’s true that all trends are circular, and what was once seen as old and outdated becomes new and modern again- in fashion, music, art, and especially architecture. From the mid 20th century, brutalist architecture rose in popularity before reaching its peak in the mid-1970s, when it was disregarded for being too stylistic and non-conforming to the needs of clients who wanted their buildings to feel timeless. But the love for these concrete beasts is facing a resurgence, and a renewed appreciation for this architectural style is on the rise. Perhaps no other architectural style elicit...

Given the ancient character of the craft, architecture school is a comparatively recent cultural phenomenon. Emerging from a soup of pupillage, guild-based apprenticeships and enthusiastic amateurship, the idea that you could train architects away from the building site only really took form in 17th-century France, when the Académie Royale d’Architecture (later the École des Beaux-Arts) offered the first properly academic training for would-be Ictinuses. Since its founding, architectural pedagogy has been constantly wracked by a simple yet galling question: should schools focus on the com...