Drawing Codes. Experimental protocols ofarchitectural representation (2018)
article⁄Drawing Codes. Experimental protocols ofarchitectural representation (2018)
abstract⁄Emerging technologies of design and production have largely changed the role of drawings within the contemporary design process from that of design generators to design products. As architectural design has shifted from an analog drawingbased paradigm to that of a computational modelbased paradigm, the agency of the drawing as a critical and important form of design representation has greatly diminished. As our design tools have increasingly become computational and the production of our drawings have become predominantly automated, this paper examines the effects on the architectural discipline and attempts to catalog examples of how artists, designers, architects, and programmers have used rulebased techniques in the process of drawing as a critical act in their process. Furthermore, the paper presents the Drawing Codes project, an ongoing research and exhibition platform that critically investigates the intersection of code and drawing how rules and constraints inform the ways architects document, analyze, represent, and design the built environment. The project features commissioned drawings by a range of contemporary architects and designers as a means of gathering a diverse set of perspectives on how computational techniques, but more importantly, computational thinking, can reexamine the role of architectural drawing as a creative and critical act.
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| Year |
2018 |
| Authors |
Marcus, Adam; Kudless, Andrew. |
| Issue |
ACADIA 2018: Recalibration. On imprecisionand infidelity. |
| Pages |
46-55 |
| Library link |
N/A |
| Entry filename |
drawing-codes-experimental-protocols-ofarchitectural-representation |
