ABSTRACT
Architecture presents itself through the economy and apparatus of the line: its boundaries and capacities are defined by the workings of orthogonality, or the 'right-angledness' of the line. Architectural drawings work notationally, similar to musical scores, codes or scripts. Through shared conventions and understanding, there is meaning within each line. Exploring architectural drawings housed within artists' books allows for an examination of the line within architectural drawing that has a different nature. The method of presenting drawings and the technique of drawing is different from the usual way of physically showing architectural drawings, that is, black lines on film, trace or paper. The ability for the drawings of architecture to be reproduced is crucial to their use. Architecture, to some degree, must construct the inhabiting subject along geometric lines. The process of creation prevalent in architecture assumes that a conventional set of projections, at various scales from site to detail, adds up to a complete, objective idea of a building.
