Drawing Codes
Experimental Protocols of Architectural Representation
Published on 7. October 2024
Book
Hardback
308 pages
978-1-957183-39-8 (ISBN)
Description
"Expand your mind and look good doing it with these new boundary-bending works of theoretical exploration by some of the field's premier thinkers." - The Architect's Newspaper
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 analogue 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. The book contains 96 commissioned drawings by a diverse range of architects that investigate how rules and constraints inform the ways architects document, analyse, 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 revitalise the role of architectural drawing as a creative and critical act.
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.
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 analogue 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. The book contains 96 commissioned drawings by a diverse range of architects that investigate how rules and constraints inform the ways architects document, analyse, 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 revitalise the role of architectural drawing as a creative and critical act.
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.
Reviews / Votes
"Expand your mind and look good doing it with these new boundary-bending works of theoretical exploration by some of the field's premier thinkers." - The Architect's NewspaperMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
San Rafael
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Paper over boards
Illustrations
300 Illustrations, color
Dimensions
Height: 288 mm
Width: 209 mm
Thickness: 34 mm
Weight
1568 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-957183-39-8 (9781957183398)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Andrew Kudless leads the design practice Matsys and is a professor at the University of Houston.
Adam Marcus directs the design practice Variable Projects and is an associate professor at Tulane University.
Adam Marcus directs the design practice Variable Projects and is an associate professor at Tulane University.
Content
7 Drawing after Computation
Andrew Kudless and Adam Marcus
29Deciphering Drawing
Ila Berman
41 Leaving the Page
Sarah Hearne
53 Scanning, Storing, Checking: Architecture and the
(Machine-Readable) Image
Amelyn Ng
73 Representations
Stephanie Lin 76 Viola Ago / MIRACLES Architecture 77 Studio Sean Canty 80 Mark Ericson 81 modem / Kathryn Moll and Nicholas de Monchaux 84 Jimenez Lai 85 Jennifer Bonner / MALL 88 WOJR 89 Adam Marcus / Variable Projects 92 Zahra Safaverdi 93 IwamotoScott Architecture 96 IBANEZ KIM 97
99 Permissions
Leyuan Li / Office for Roundtable 102 Hoeweler + Yoon 103 Oyler Wu Collaborative 106 Ajay Manthripagada 107 Andrew Bruno 110 Daisy Ames /Studio Ames 111 Endemic Architecture / Clark Thenhaus 114 Nicole McIntosh and Jonathan Louie / Architecture Office 115 Bz Zhang 118 Ersela
Kripa and Stephen Mueller 119 Vernelle A. A. Noel / Situated Computation +Design Lab 122 Daniel Koehler and Rasa Navasaityte 123
125 Opportunities
NADAAA / Nader Tehrani and Matthew Waxman 128 Kristy Balliet 129 Heather Roberge / murmur 132 Kelly Bair 133 Germane Barnes / Studio
Barnes 136 Thom Faulders / FAULDERS STUDIO 137 Katie MacDonald and Kyle Schumann / After Architecture 140 HABITABLE Studio / Marta Rodriguez and Michael Lindemann 141 Hyperspandrel / Jaewoo Chon 144 Keith Krumwiede 145 Marcus Martinez and Amna Ansari / UltraBarrio 148 LAMAS Architecture Ltd 149
151 Translations
DESIGN EARTH 154 THE OPEN WORKSHOP 155 Sandra Youkhana and Luke Caspar Pearson / You + Pea 158 Andres L. Hernandez 159 Liz Galvez / Office e.g. 162 Janette Kim 163 Joris Komen 166 Joyce Hwang 167 David Gissen 170 HOME-OFFICE / Daniel Jacobs and Brittany Utting 11 trandLAB 174 Dana Cupkova/ Epiphyte Lab 175
Fabrications
MARC FORNES / THEVERYMANY 180 Aranda\Lasch 181 Norman Kelley 184 SPORTS 185 Tsz Yan Ng 188 AD-WO 189 SCHAUM/SHIEH 192
Christine Yogiaman and Kenneth Tracy / yo_cy design 193 Jenny E. Sabin / Jenny Sabin Studio 196 Chris T. Cornelius / studio:indigenous 197 McLain Clutter and Cyrus Penarroyo / EXTENTS 200 John Szot 201
203 Frictions
Curime Batliner 206 Madeline Gannon / ATONATON 207 Maria Yablonina 210 Edouard Cabay 211 Erin Besler 214 Rael San Fratello 215 V. Mitch
McEwen 218 Mariana Popescu 219 Stefana Parascho 222 Alicia Nahmad Vazquez 223 Jason Kelly Johnson / FUTUREFORMS 226 Matthew Johnson and Jason Logan / LOJO 227
229 Materialities
MILLIONS / Zeina Koreitem and John May 232 T+E+A+M 233 Heather Flood 236 Hyojin Kwon 237 Emma Mendel and Bradley Cantrell 240 Amy
Campos 241 Catie Newell / Alibi Studio 244 Elena Manferdini 245 Kevin Hirth / KEVIN HIRTH Co. 248 Maya Alam and Daniele Profeta / A/P Practice 249 Curtis Roth 252 Carl Lostritto 253
255 Generations
Outpost Office 258 Andrew Kovacs 259 Rafael Beneytez-Duran and Ophelia Mantz / Z4A/Z4Z4 262 John Porral 263 Andrew Heumann 266 office ca 267 Michael Meredith, Hilary Sample / MOS 270 SNOOKS + HARPER 271 Synthesis Design + Architecture 274 Andrew Kudless / Matsys 275 Drawing Architecture Studio 278 Young & Ayata 279
283 Ends of Drawing
John McMorrough
291 Coda
Andrew Kudless and Adam Marcus
293 Exhibition Chronology
296 Contributors
307 Acknowledgments
308 Image Credits
Andrew Kudless and Adam Marcus
29Deciphering Drawing
Ila Berman
41 Leaving the Page
Sarah Hearne
53 Scanning, Storing, Checking: Architecture and the
(Machine-Readable) Image
Amelyn Ng
73 Representations
Stephanie Lin 76 Viola Ago / MIRACLES Architecture 77 Studio Sean Canty 80 Mark Ericson 81 modem / Kathryn Moll and Nicholas de Monchaux 84 Jimenez Lai 85 Jennifer Bonner / MALL 88 WOJR 89 Adam Marcus / Variable Projects 92 Zahra Safaverdi 93 IwamotoScott Architecture 96 IBANEZ KIM 97
99 Permissions
Leyuan Li / Office for Roundtable 102 Hoeweler + Yoon 103 Oyler Wu Collaborative 106 Ajay Manthripagada 107 Andrew Bruno 110 Daisy Ames /Studio Ames 111 Endemic Architecture / Clark Thenhaus 114 Nicole McIntosh and Jonathan Louie / Architecture Office 115 Bz Zhang 118 Ersela
Kripa and Stephen Mueller 119 Vernelle A. A. Noel / Situated Computation +Design Lab 122 Daniel Koehler and Rasa Navasaityte 123
125 Opportunities
NADAAA / Nader Tehrani and Matthew Waxman 128 Kristy Balliet 129 Heather Roberge / murmur 132 Kelly Bair 133 Germane Barnes / Studio
Barnes 136 Thom Faulders / FAULDERS STUDIO 137 Katie MacDonald and Kyle Schumann / After Architecture 140 HABITABLE Studio / Marta Rodriguez and Michael Lindemann 141 Hyperspandrel / Jaewoo Chon 144 Keith Krumwiede 145 Marcus Martinez and Amna Ansari / UltraBarrio 148 LAMAS Architecture Ltd 149
151 Translations
DESIGN EARTH 154 THE OPEN WORKSHOP 155 Sandra Youkhana and Luke Caspar Pearson / You + Pea 158 Andres L. Hernandez 159 Liz Galvez / Office e.g. 162 Janette Kim 163 Joris Komen 166 Joyce Hwang 167 David Gissen 170 HOME-OFFICE / Daniel Jacobs and Brittany Utting 11 trandLAB 174 Dana Cupkova/ Epiphyte Lab 175
Fabrications
MARC FORNES / THEVERYMANY 180 Aranda\Lasch 181 Norman Kelley 184 SPORTS 185 Tsz Yan Ng 188 AD-WO 189 SCHAUM/SHIEH 192
Christine Yogiaman and Kenneth Tracy / yo_cy design 193 Jenny E. Sabin / Jenny Sabin Studio 196 Chris T. Cornelius / studio:indigenous 197 McLain Clutter and Cyrus Penarroyo / EXTENTS 200 John Szot 201
203 Frictions
Curime Batliner 206 Madeline Gannon / ATONATON 207 Maria Yablonina 210 Edouard Cabay 211 Erin Besler 214 Rael San Fratello 215 V. Mitch
McEwen 218 Mariana Popescu 219 Stefana Parascho 222 Alicia Nahmad Vazquez 223 Jason Kelly Johnson / FUTUREFORMS 226 Matthew Johnson and Jason Logan / LOJO 227
229 Materialities
MILLIONS / Zeina Koreitem and John May 232 T+E+A+M 233 Heather Flood 236 Hyojin Kwon 237 Emma Mendel and Bradley Cantrell 240 Amy
Campos 241 Catie Newell / Alibi Studio 244 Elena Manferdini 245 Kevin Hirth / KEVIN HIRTH Co. 248 Maya Alam and Daniele Profeta / A/P Practice 249 Curtis Roth 252 Carl Lostritto 253
255 Generations
Outpost Office 258 Andrew Kovacs 259 Rafael Beneytez-Duran and Ophelia Mantz / Z4A/Z4Z4 262 John Porral 263 Andrew Heumann 266 office ca 267 Michael Meredith, Hilary Sample / MOS 270 SNOOKS + HARPER 271 Synthesis Design + Architecture 274 Andrew Kudless / Matsys 275 Drawing Architecture Studio 278 Young & Ayata 279
283 Ends of Drawing
John McMorrough
291 Coda
Andrew Kudless and Adam Marcus
293 Exhibition Chronology
296 Contributors
307 Acknowledgments
308 Image Credits