A Certain Praise for Drawings

Abstract

Drawings have always accompanied architecture, not only to fulfill plain representational requirements, but mostly to expand its underlying motivations. No matter how specific the context is, this applies to every approach to our discipline, both from academia and from strict professional practice. The suggestive and open-ended nature of sketches embodies the richness of the source, the goal, and the tool, enabling multiple interpretations while enriching the architectural discourse. Beyond its prescriptive nature, technical drawings can also provide traces of the iterative creative process, in which precision and vagueness blend to distill the essence of architecture idealization.