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Columbia University: Graduate School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation

Drawing and Representation II Spring 2012

Coordinators: Babak Bryan & Michael Young

Instructors: Kutan Ayata, Frank Gesualdi, Jennifer Leung, John Morrison, Bryan Young

TA’s: Kyle Hovenkotter, Emily E. Jones, Dan Taeyoung Lee, Bo Liu, Eliza Montgomery, Owen Nichols, Luis

Felipe Paris

Drawing Project 1: The Hybrid Drawing

Architectural representation is a constructed mediation. It allows notations of radically different kinds to combine in

the space of the page. These notations range from the symbolic to the literal, the designative to the embodied, and

the conceptual to the aesthetic. This exercise asks each student to make a conceptual and aesthetic argument through

the combination of multiple modes of representation. The starting point will be the digital models from ADR1.

These should be treated as found objects, implying that the investigation that each student puts forward may be

radically different from the original architect’s desires. Each week will present a different topic to be addressed, with

two weeks before the review to combine the issues toward a critical stance through representation. The topics are

open questions that relate to the transition of mediation from a manual to a digital means.

Week 1 – The Cut – Draw the most important section for understanding your building. Draw the least importantsection for understanding your building. Inter-relate these through a plan drawing. All three drawings will be on a

single sheet drawn at a scale of your choosing. There is no neutral way to draw a plan and section. How you choose

to represent the cut portions of the building, the depth beyond the cut, and the projected elevation surfaces are all

aesthetic decisions. Where you cut the building and how the drawings relate begins a conceptual argument. These

cuts traditionally preceded the model as inter-related orthographic projections. But in the drawing/model fusion

presented by digital software, the 2d representation is often extracted from the digital model. How can this be

exploited, critiqued?

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Week 2 – Scale Shifts – Bring multiple scales of representation into a single drawing. The minimum shift is through

three different scales. When drawing manually, the scale at which you draw is crucial, requiring much more

information for a detail than for a site plan. These scale shifts also bring a level of abstraction to the drawing that

allows design ideas to shift between scales in the process of drawing. Since the digital model is one to one, the way

that scale and information is processed enters into a different post-production of the space of the paper. How can this

be exploited, critiqued?

Week 3 – Motion, Depth and Narrative – Create a sequence of movements in relation to your building. These

drawings could be understood as a narrative of perspective vignettes that inhabits a promenade through the building.

These drawings could be an exploded axonometric that articulate the building’s tectonic, programmatic, or spatial

assembly as a sequential procedure. These drawings could be diagrammatic and notational seeking to map the

motions of bodies or vision through space. In a manual drawing, the graphic language that expresses movement

(both experiential sensations and procedural notations) is captured in the material trace of the drawing as a residue

of the design process. The digital model opens an expansive array of movements, both as a simulated camera

panning, zooming, and moving around a design, and in the real time variations that can be performed on the surface

geometry itself. What is absent in a digital model is the indexical trace of these actions. How can this be exploited,

critiqued?

Week 4 & 5 – The Hybrid Drawing – Combine the experiments above into a new hybrid representation of your

creation. You are responsible for the conceptual and aesthetic argument that is put forward through the

representations.

Schedule of Topics

Drawing Project 1 – The Hybrid Drawing

01.17.12 Projection, Section & Descriptive Geometry – M. Young

Project 1 – Individual Sections - Project 1 Introduction

01.24.12 Perspective & the Axonometric – B. Bryan

Project 1 – Pin up – Interrelated Cuts

01.31.12 Diagrams & Notations - B. BryanProject 1 – Pin up – Scale Shifts

02.07.12 No Lecture

Project 1 – Pin up – Motion, Depth and Narrative

02.14.12 No Lecture

Project 1 – Pin up – Hybrid Drawing

02.21.12 No Lecture

Project 1 – Review – Hybrid Drawing

Required Readings: 

Evans, Robin “Translations from Drawing to Building” in Translations from Drawing to Building and Other Essays.

Architectural Association Publications, 1997, pp. 195-232.

Latour, Bruno “Visualization & Cognition: Drawing Things Together” from www.bruno.latour.fr