This exercise is a reminder of the phenomenological origin of lines as three-dimensional entities possessing unique materiality, weight, geometric propensities, structural properties, sensorial qualities that are time and culture specific. Analog drawings are three-dimensional material and cultural presences engaging with our multimodal sensorial perception system.

 

Thread-lines, metal-lines, pasta-lines, paper-lines, rope-lines, glue lines, etc. inform design through what Marco Frascari called the “geomater,” an idea about geometry that is connected to materiality and culture. Discovering how a chosen culture, and material informs the geometry of making is the first critical element in architectural drawing. Being reminded of the materiality, weightiness, and sensorial qualities of analog drawings offer a different experience from the one to be had with weightless digital lines.

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https://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2010/online/

 

Butler, Cornelia & Catherine de Zegher. On Line, Drawing through the Twentieth Century. The Museum of Modern Art. New York, 2010. 

 

Emmons, Paul. 2019. Drawing Imagining Building. Embodiment in Architectural Design Practices. London and New York: Routledge.

 

Frascari, Marco. 2011. Eleven Exercises in the Art of Architectural Drawing. Slow Food for the Architect’s Imagination. London and New York: Routledge.

 

Goffi, Federica and David Lepage. “Drawing Thinking: A Lost Currency?” AAE Conference, UK, 2013.