Drawing: Methodology, Making + Media
By considering the territory of architectural drawing as a culturally situated practice, and as a multifaceted methodology of looking, knowing, making, performing and of communication, important insights into the different landscapes of personal, professional and educational creativity are explored.
Drawing as both a register of meaning and of commodification, evidences a multiplicity of philosophical, physical, qualitative, quantitative and phenomenological operational tactics in architecture, with drawing as the primary ‘currency’ of the profession.
Aspects such as intertextuality, translations, and drawings as collections of things and processes, offer different perceptions and readings through this research work, and through the parallel activity of the related SuperStudio work, which focuses on drawing as its primary methodology.
Exploring the unseen narratives of drawing, through considering the space between the digital and the analogue, between the hand and eye, and between the idea and the building, this research aims to situate and contextualise different intellectual positions and knowledge constructs within a wider cultural and social framework.
The multiple practices, and different mediums of drawing, and in particular by examining the relationship of drawing within architectural education, this research aims to uncover new insights while developing and consolidating existing work in this field, such as the documentary film Drawing on Life and the publication and folio of drawings Notations.
The group is formed by a combination of educators, practitioners, artists and research PhD’s.
Research Lead
Professor Paul Clarke, Professor of Architectural Design
Members
Peter McNie, Teaching Fellow