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Stacking Bricks and Pulling Prints or, Drawing in the Dark
2GB/Elective Visual Studies, Spring 2017
Andrew Zago
Wednesday, 10-1
In contemporary architecture, drawing?s assumptive role as the center of projective speculation has
been eroded by new methods of production that have only an occasional relationship to the two
dimensional surface. In this shift of methods, however, the production of architecture remains a
wholly mediated undertaking in which architects use tools to determine the disposition of building
elements while doing no actual labor to place them there. An assumption of this seminar is that
architectural media themselves (chiefly drawing) have, in the past, provided a reliable arena in
which an architectural idea can be given form, and that this continues to be so. The shift to novel
media does not invalidate the role of drawing as projective speculation (its looming historic presence
across the discipline makes that seem an unlikely possibility). Rather,