ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses the intention of the book to render explicit that through the process of contextualising the drawings within a corpus of projects of the same architect or other architects can help us understand how the architects give sense to their act of architectural composition. The chapter places particular emphasis on the specificity of architectural drawings in comparison with any other kind of drawings. In each architectural representation, because of the fact that the conception of form in architecture addresses to a use, the construction of a conception of user takes necessarily place. Architects, through the construction of their drawings, address to the observers of their drawings and to the users of the architectural artefacts that their practice aims to produce. The chapter also explains why comprehension of architectural drawings as dispositifs implies that they are understood as the meeting points of the exchanges and the interaction between different parameters: the architect-conceiver, the observer, the user and so on.
