ABSTRACT
Yet architects are of necessity involved in drawing by some means or other and continually think non-verbally as part of their normal architectural activity. Visual thinking is particularly relevant at the design stage which is also the stage in which an architect makes the most significant impact. To imagine and record spatial organisation would generally be recognised as the activity which distinguishes an architect from others involved in the creation of buildings. This is not to suggest that architects have a monopoly in non-verbal thought. Clearly musicians, painters, sculptors, engineers, product designers, graphic designers, different craftsmen, film makers, some scientists and many others equally and routinely pursue visual thinking. Yet it is possible to modify Descartes dictum and say ‘I think non-verbally therefore I am an architect’.
