Drawing Architecture or Architecture of Drawing

Reading Robin Evans, In Front of Lines That Leaves Nothing Behind 

Architects draw. They draw and they represent things. A representation project is an Architectural project. Every act of ‘Drawing to Building’ is process of translation and every time the translation occurs it results in certain misreadings. Misreadings of Form, space and representation. 

To truly understand architecture one must understand its drawing. A building distances itself from its creator, it becomes an allographic project. The autographic project is the one when architect engages with the act of drawing.

A drawing is projective, it is speculative. Buildings are ephemeral, drawings are not. So a drawing is the Architecture. ‘A drawing emerges not only through a coherent organisation between mind and hand but also by the technology it engages with. According to Marshall McLuhan, when a new medium appears, it does its best to simulate the preceding one before it inevitably succeeds it. 

Every new technology destabilizes the practice before it. It alters the relation between mind, hand and the technical. It is essential to look at these deconstruction possibilities which the new tools allow us for.