DRAWING CODES
EXPERIMENTAL PROTOCOLS OF ARCHITECTURAL REPRESENTATION
Through 96 experimental drawings and five critical essays, this book examines the role of computational processes and procedural thinking in the production of architectural representation.
Emerging technologies of design and production have transformed 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 drawing-based paradigm to that of a computational model-based paradigm, the agency of the drawing as a critical and important form of design representation has shifted. Drawing Codes: Experimental Protocols of Architectural Representation examines the effects of this transformation on the architectural discipline and explores how architects have critically integrated procedural thinking into their drawing process.
Drawing Codes: Experimental Protocols of Architectural Representation examines the effects of this transformation on the architectural discipline and explores how architects have critically integrated procedural thinking into their drawing process. The book contains 96 commissioned drawings by a diverse range of architects that investigate how rules and constraints inform the ways architects document, analyze, represent, and design the built environment. The publication features essays by architects and theorists offering diverse perspectives on how computational techniques and, more importantly, computational thinking, can revitalize the role of architectural drawing as a creative and critical act.
The book contains 96 commissioned drawings by a diverse range of architects that investigate how rules and constraints inform the ways architects document, analyze, represent, and design the built environment.
“It is difficult to think of any great building in the history of architecture which did not represent a union of the talents of the architect with those of the painter and the sculptor.”
Each drawing responds to a shared conceptual prompt developed by the authors and conforms to a standard size and format. The intent is for this consistency to elicit a wide range of approaches to questions of technology, design, code, and representation. The book documents how computational processes such as procedural drawing, digital simulation, automated production, and machine learning can contribute to a new understanding of what drawings are and how they are created. The result is a considerable diversity of medium, aesthetic sensibility, and content, demonstrating how conventions of architectural representation remain fertile territory for invention and speculation.
Selected Works
Drawing CodesEXPERIMENTAL PROTOCOLS OF ARCHITECTURAL REPRESENTATION
FLUXArchitecture in a Parametric Landscape
FLUX - Ila + AndrewArchitecture in a Parametric Landscape
New Investigations in Collective FormNeeraj Bhatia
Tatiana Bilbao EstudioBenjamin Wilke
Autonomous UrbanismEvan Shieh
WAY BEYOND BIGNESSProject type
Designing the Computational Image, Imagining Computational DesignDaniel Cardoso Llach and Theodora Vardouli
Living + Dying INbetweenPeter Zweig
Silt Sand SlurryRob Holmes, Brett Milligan, and Gena Wirth
G. E. KIDDER SMITH BUILDSProject type
NUCLEAR CHRONICLESDESIGN RESEARCH ON THE LANDSCAPES OF THE US NUCLEAR HIGHWAY
Environmental Activism by DesignColeman Coker, Sarah Gamble, Katie Swenson , and Thomas Fisher
Designing for EmpathyAybars Aşçı
Designing for Empathy - Aybars AşçıAybars Aşçı
Johnston MarkleeBenjamin Wilke
Impossible and Hyper-Real Elements of ArchitectureCarl Lostritto
New Investigations in Collective FormNeeraj Bhatia + The Open Workshop
Source Books in Architecture 16Tatiana Bilbao
Environmental Activism by DesignColeman Coker + Sarah Gamble
Designing the Computational Image, Imagining Computational DesignDaniel Cardoso Llach + Theodora Vardouli
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