Sketches

Have a look at these sketches and blueprints by Jeffrey R. Matz LLC. Click on the thumbnails for each gallery.

Carpenter Center | Barn Studies | Field Office | Boathouse | Ruins | Museum Infill | Farmhouse Studies | Megaron Studies | Blueprints | Princeton | Both/And | Museum Infill Complete

Carpenter Center

Le Corbusier’s only US project. It became a later basis of inquiry for five US architects that would eventually become known as The New York Five. They were featured in the 1972 book, Five Architects.

Barn Studies

The architect William La Riche has described that there are certain archetypal forms that continue to recur throughout millennia which describe the continuous space of our cities and the discontinuous space of our sanctuaries within them. Read Theory in Practice (pdf).

Field Office

In homage to Sir Edwin Lutyens, who was characterized by architect Alan Colquhoun along with Le Corbusier, as sculptors of architectural form probably without contemporary rivals.

Boathouse

In homage to Le Corbusier’s Swiss Pavillion in Zurich.

Ruins

The architect Alessandro Anselmi has noted that the archeological site is incontestably the place of memory.

Museum Infill

Elevation studies. See Museum Infill Complete.

Farmhouse Studies

Gyorgy Kepes, “Transparency means a simultaneous perception of different spatial locations.” Read Language of Vision. (pdf)

Megaron Studies

The archetypal and fundamental cell. Read Theory in Practice (pdf).

Blueprints

Additions to the former Matz residence, originally designed by J. Raymond Matz. Please see Bio for additional information.

Princeton

Site plan studies for the Princeton Farm project. See Essays for additional information. Read Transperancy pdf

Both/And

The two cubists, Palladio and Le Corbusier compared in the essay The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa.

Museum Infill Complete

Theoretical project for the Larry Aldrich Museum in Ridgefield.