Drawing Conversations: Architectural drawing and its materiality

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    Drawing Conversations: Architectural drawing and its materiality

    The cultural practices of architecture are powerful forms. Architectural representation tends to prioritise the image, rather than the materialities and processes through which a drawing is produced; paper and pen, the gestures, bodily actions, a smudge on a piece of trace, a mouse-hand marking a screen. This research day will focus on the materials, acts and gestures through which architecture is drawn.

    It will ask, how is an architectural or interior drawing made? What do we mean by a ‘drawing’ anyway, and what determines how we use the term? What happens when a drawing becomes three-dimensional and, in this case, when does a drawing become a model? How far can you expand an architectural or interior drawing before it unsettles practice? How are everyday materials (dust, dirt, decay) and daily movement rhythms (cleaning, eating, sleeping, walking through the front door and down a corridor) represented in drawing? What is the relation between intentional and non-intentional marking? And even, what might happen when a drawing turns mouldy?
    Period23 May 202424 May 2024
    Event typeWorkshop
    LocationPortsmouth, United KingdomShow on map