Architects draw for a variety of purposes; they draw to assimilate places and precedents, to generate ideas, to develop a concept into a consistent project in a team, to communicate ideas and solutions to patrons and clients, and to guide building contractors during the construction stages, as well as to produce further elaborations in order to publish their project in a treatise, a journal or their own portfolio. Most importantly, architects draw to think and to manage complexity in a visual way. By taking into account innovative and interdisciplinary uses of architectural drawing in the design process, both historical and current, the collection of chapters and interviews in this book frames a new critical perspective and a uniquely contextual appreciation of drawing as a way to encourage spatial thinking and practice in architecture and urbanism. The authors take the discussion to a new level of philosophical sophistication, while also considering drawing in relation to a series of specific engagements with urban development, planning, and architecture.
Fabio Colonnese is an architect and senior researcher at the Department of History, Drawing and Restoration of Architecture, Sapienza University of Rome. His PhD dissertation on the labyrinth and its manifold relationships with art, architecture, and city was published in Il Labirinto e l'Architetto (2006). His research focuses on perspective illusory devices in Baroque architecture, digital reconstruction after literary architectures, and architecture modelling.Nuno Grancho is an architect, urbanist, architectural historian, and theorist. He holds a PhD in architecture and urbanism from the University of Coimbra, Portugal. He is a postdoctoral researcher and a Marie Skodowska-Curie Fellow at the Centre for Privacy Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He is an invited professor and a visiting researcher at The Royal Danish Academy - School of Architecture, Design and Conservation, Denmark. He is an integrated researcher at the Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), Centro de Estudos sobre a Mudança Socioeconómica e o Território, Lisboa, Portugal.Robin Schaeverbeke is a senior lecturer and researcher at the Faculty of Architecture, Catholic University of Leuven (KUL), Belgium, where he teaches and researches architectural drawing and media. His practice situates itself between that of designer, researcher, teacher, draughtsman and improviser. His research centres around practice-based epistemologies of tools, techniques and formulas for architectural imagination in practice, teaching and learning.
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