Drawing Matter: The Drawing Research Platform 2025 Published
© Jesper Authen
The Drawing Research Platform 2025 has been published on the Drawing Matter website, featuring hand drawings by ENAC Master’s students in architecture, civil engineering, and environmental engineering, produced during the ENAC Summer Workshop at Lincoln’s Inn Fields, Central London.
Developed with Drawing Matter, this one-week workshop explored hand drawing as a core tool in architecture and engineering, engaging the site as both a built and historically layered environment. Using the Drawing Matter Collection, students produced survey drawings not as representations, but as cognitive, corporeal, and constructive instruments for understanding existing conditions. Working outdoors and within the collection, the deliberate, tactile process of manual drawing heightened awareness of scale, material, and place. In our uniform digital age, drawing by hand becomes an act of resistance.
The workshop was organised by Dr. Patricia Guaita, architect and researcher at ENAC, EPFL, and Raffael Baur, invited expert from Zurich, and included lectures by Matthew Wells, Senior Lecturer in Architectural Studies at the University of Manchester, UK.
We thank Niall Hobhouse and the Drawing Matter team for hosting us for the third time and for publishing the work, with special thanks to Jesper Authen and Matthew Wells. Our sincere thanks also go to all the inspiring participating students.
The publication is available here: https://drawingmatter.org/enac-epfl-2025/
The next edition of the ENAC Summer Workshop will take place in London in summer 2026.
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