ABSTRACT
This chapter examines certain drawings used in architectural design wherein the technique of mapping as a design tool seems specifically apparent. Mapping as an act of visual translation could be in terms of specific information, site data, programmatic issues, or other analogical and metaphoric aspects that are directly significant to context and program. Situationists treated maps as terrains for exploration that were appropriated and operated upon to give a new understanding of the New Babylon. The aim of the collage maps was to the status-quo and deliberately distort the conventional understanding of the city. These collage maps of New Babylon have all the notations of conventional maps since they are created from individual parts of existing maps to form a new whole that becomes the register of new ideas. Smout Allen's work, architecture itself becomes a map and an instrument that creates the map, in that it becomes a device that registers, marks, and maps the landscape.
