Two 'obelisks'?one by Álvaro Siza Vieira and another by Alison and Peter Smithson?have been re-erected in Shatwell, a "semi-derelict agricultural complex" deep in rural England. The monuments form part of an evolving programme of installations which Drawing Matter, an organisation founded by Niall Hobhouse "that champions the process of architecture through collecting, archiving and commissioning," will use to explore the relationship between architecture, sculpture and landscape.

'Obelisk' / Alison and Peter Smithson. Image © James Morris

Two 'obelisks'?one by Álvaro Siza Vieira and another by Alison and Peter Smithson?have been re-erected in Shatwell, a "semi-derelict agricultural complex" deep in rural England. The monuments form part of an evolving programme of installations which Drawing Matter, an organisation founded by Niall Hobhouse "that champions the process of architecture through collecting, archiving and commissioning," will use to explore the relationship between architecture, sculpture and landscape.
'Obelisk' / Alison and Peter Smithson. Image © James Morris

"Obelisk was originally conceived in 1984 by celebrated British architects Alison and Peter Smithson for an intensely urban site in Siena, then reworked in 1994 as a woven spiral called the Inlook Tower (a playful reversal of Patrick Geddes?s Outlook Tower in Edinburgh). Peter lived to see the 15 metre tim...