ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a course that encouraged a critical observation of design communication. The course's assessments consisted of two assignments: spacing and forming. Students began the spacing project by drawing the body in space. Spacing is far from neutral in architectural discourse; it is extremely political, as much is invested in keeping the body and the body's material engagement with architecture separate from the aesthetic object or in trying to dissolve the line that separates the body from the built. The assignment on spacing, in the end, actually conveyed more of an abstract understanding or potential of spacing than the forming project. Differing from the spacing project, students repeated each task on the Monday using analogue means, and then in the Thursday studio using digital means. Students were then directed to return to the plans, to explore how spacing could be communicated in relation to more technical drawings.
