Faculty of Applied Science and Technology (FAST)
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ARCH 12356
Architectural Studio 1
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Faculty: | Faculty of Applied Science and Technology (FAST) |
| School: | Architectural Technology | |
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ARCH 12356 Architectural Studio 1 |
IS DRAWING (AS WE ONCE KNEW IT) DEAD?
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| Some say never! Image above is the Bavinger House drawn by Bruce Goff | Some say yes it has been dead for a while... |
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The art of drawing is the beginning and end, or finisher of all things imaginable. Edward Robbins |
Drawing is passe Freehand drawing is not the way to express a high tech state of the art idea and as such it is therefore definitely not the way of the future.... |
| THE CASE FOR FREEHAND DRAWING | THE CASE FOR COMPUTER GENERATED IMAGING |
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The pencil is integral to the act of design... Thomas Schaller (above) |
The days of drawing are over. Design is all digital now. It gives you so much more freedom. Thom Mayne, Architect |
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….a drawing represents an idea in a very pure and simple way . [it is ] a sharp photograph of a designer’s brain… Willem van den Hoed (above) |
Drawing is an archaic skill... I’m more interested in moving people through space. Jaegap Chung, Student U of T |
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The act of drawing makes you see…seeing is crucial to understanding the physical environments we live in, as well as those we propose to create.Allan B. Jacobs (above) |
Architectural previsualization is most useful when it is most accurate….the computer provides certain advantages in realistic perspective visualization. (this image is a hybrid as it was made from a wireframe) Steve Oles (above) |
Drawing, today, is at the root of architecture. It is the instrument through which architecture is most often brought into virtual and actual existence. Architects draw so that others may build Edward Robbins
Musicians make music, poets make poems but Architects do not make architecture; they make drawings and models of it…representations meant to direct the development of something conceived into something constructed. David Leatherbarrow, Professor
Drawing is the act of revealing things unseen… Peter Yeadon |
The computer is everything now…it is our pencil. Todd Schliemann
We use CAD for every thing we do… we seldom draw anything except in the early phases. Todd Schliemann |
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| Expression is for people. Replication is for computers. Chris Grubbs (above) |
Rational, precise, easy to manipulate and mutate ideas. Lessard and Khoury (above) |
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| Drawing is "...Intuitive, interactive, evocative, engaging..." drawing above by B.Hook | If we can invest virtual reality with intensity and no one wants to return to the old way of doing things...we may never have to lift a pencil again… |
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Computers can only ever provide half a solution in order to reach the concept, you have to go through the sketch. Eberhard Zeidler |
The computer is a tool, as is a paintbrush but, the power of a digital paintbrush is it’s changeability…don’t like the colour of the glass? How’s this? Want to see what it looks like from another vantage point? How’s’ this?…. Now try that with watercolour! ADAM DE SUTTER, Sheridan Alumnus |
Drawing encourages observation, reflection, interpretation. As the value placed on drawing decreases, so does the value placed on the work of architects.
I draw to learn. The best way to I have of teaching myself about anything is to draw it. David Macaulay |
This is the digital age. Our creative output is more often " input " and is subject to the re-interpretation of sophisticated machines capable of morphing our ideas. if not completely dead as an architectural practise one must acknowledge that sketching is playing at least a diminishing role in today's modern practice... no one wants to return to the old way of doing things... |
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I see things that do not exist except in my own mind, but I am also a magician because I can show them to you...here, look at this sketch... Ken Snell |
…no matter what the machine may be, it was people who thought it up and it's people who make it work... Fred Rogers |
Further reading
"Why Architects Draw" by Edward Robbins, MIT Press 1997.