ABSTRACT
The relationship between drawing and building is fundamental to the process of making architecture. Representation is an essential intermediary governing the creation and documentation of an idea. Translating an idea into built form, representation has always served as a mediating element. Drawing as a specific method with distinct marks, codes, referential and visual capabilities, and intrinsic geometric systemic logics, creates an associated formalism of that which is being drawn to how it is drawn. To design and make architecture one must mediate a relationship between representation and building. Architectural drawing is at a point of crisis arguably greater than it has ever been. The perspectival perception of space is founded in an understanding of depth. The history of drawing is rooted in the relationship of implied vs. actual space. The translation of a drawing into a physical object allows for the multiplicity of picture planes as the body moves, resulting in a reconstructed engagement with perception.
