Speaking Through Sketchbooks

A discussion accompanying the exhibition Opening Lines: Sketchbooks of Ten Modern Architectsat the Tchoban Foundation. Museum for Architectural Drawing 

This second Museum Dialogue celebrates the inauguration of the exhibition Opening Lines: Sketchbooks of Ten Modern Architects at the Tchoban Foundation Museum for Architectural Drawing (30.6.2018 – 7.10.2018) and the launch of a new series of publications about architectural sketchbooks produced by Drawing Matter Somerset. Architects Nigel Coates and Níall McLaughlin will be in conversation about their sketchbook practices, followed by a chaired discussion with other architects whose work features in the exhibition. 

Copies of the following books will be presented for the first time, and available for purchase: 
Seven Early Sketchbooks, Álvaro Siza 
Sketchbook 12 and the Continuous Monument, Adolfo Natalini
The Lisson Gallery Sketchbooks, Tony Fretton
Sketchbooks – A Parallel Life, Níall McLaughlin


After the discussion we cordially invite you to stay for a reception and to visit the exhibition together with the architects. 

The event will be in English. Admission is free. Please register at [email protected]. We look forward to welcoming you. 


Níall McLaughlin, In Kilkenny in the rain, undated, pen on paper with pressed flower
Image Courtesy Drawing Matter, © The Architect