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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