ABSTRACT
Erin Lewis has been drawing all her life, as has Matthew Griffith, her partner at the Raleigh, North Carolina studio they call in situ. Ironically, though, Griffith didn't begin to pursue it intensely until he enrolled in Davidson College as a math major. They'll work through sections, site plans, and models to start thinking about different scales, switching back and forth, weighing one solution against another. Drawing, Lewis says, is a tool that allows an architect to use her brain never thinking about a single issue, but all the elements involved in the design. The pair have created a culture of design based on 24/7 drawing. One architect might start with very light lines relating structure to site, while another comes in with heavier lines for the actual building and another might add color for landscape. Line weight is taken very seriously the lighter the line, the less important.
