Footnotes, Backgrounds, Sheds unfolds as a three-way conversation about the Drawing Matter Archive — a building by Hugh Strange Architects — probing how architecture can be simultaneously layered, living, and lived within a working farm landscape.
About This Book
Structured as a dialogue between architect Hugh Strange, photographer Max Creasy, and architect-writer Elizabeth Hatz, this book moves well beyond monograph convention. Rather than documenting a completed work, it thinks alongside one — tracing how a rural archival building holds material, memory, and context in productive tension. The result is a quietly expansive meditation on built form: what it means to design a space for drawing, how a structure settles into its agricultural surroundings, and how photography and critical writing can extend — rather than merely record — architectural thought. Essential reading for practitioners interested in the relationship between archive, landscape, and making.
Key Features
- 72 pages of photographic work by Max Creasy alongside critical and conversational text
- Contributors: Hugh Strange, Max Creasy, Elizabeth Hatz; edited by Dan Rule, Justine Ellis, and Nadiah Abdulrahim; design by Daly & Lyon
- Published by Perimeter Editions, 2015
- Limited edition of 1000 copies
What You'll Discover
- How Hugh Strange Architects approached the brief for a rural architectural archive, balancing material precision with contextual sensitivity
- Elizabeth Hatz's critical framework for understanding architecture as layered and inhabited rather than fixed and autonomous
- The role of photography — specifically Max Creasy's Norwegian-Australian perspective — in constructing meaning around a building beyond its documentation
- How conversation as a format opens architectural discourse to ambiguity, allowing the building's relationship to its farm setting to remain productively unresolved
About the Author
Hugh Strange is a London-based architect whose practice has built a reputation for buildings that balance material and structural attentiveness with precise, contextually considered responses to both urban and rural sites. His Architectural Archive for Drawing Matter was nominated for the 2015 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award, and received RIBA National and Regional Awards in the same year. Elizabeth Hatz is a Swedish academic, architect, and writer; Max Creasy is a Norwegian-Australian photographer.
Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 72
- Dimensions: 290 x 240 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9780648262855
- Publisher: Perimeter Editions
- Publication Date: 2015
Perfect For: Architects and designers interested in rural and contextual practice, academics working on architectural criticism and theory, and collectors of limited-edition architectural publishing.