Dear all,
It is very interesting the discussion developing around drawing, and I would
like to contribute somehow.
On drawing dialogues (non verbal) one of the oldest drawing dialogue between
architects is registered in the Villard de Honnecourt diaries, (that I named
a graphic discussion) where he discusses with another architect Pierre de
Corbie, about the solutions or possible alterations of the main altar of
Notre Dame de Cambrai, plates XVII and XVIII. He tends, as a modern man of
his time, to prefer the solutions of what became known as Gothic.
About drawing as a language, I think that drawing is a very clear non-verbal
communicating system, and here I’m speaking about any non codified drawing
process; a language implies a set of codes which drawing does not use.
The communication with drawing is an open system and even if there are
graphic characteristics or characters that repeat themselves, it is always in
an open process.
The case study of drawing by architects (which is mainly my subject and
investigation) tends to be very illustrative, as they wander between codes,
used freely and drawings in the broader mean, all intermixed.
What is more obvious with drawings by architects, is that they use it very
distinctly as a thinking process which relates, ideally, to shapes, space,
light, without the need of verbalization interference.
A drawing may even became an artistic and aesthetic statement, like the
famous chalk drawing of a skyscraper by Mies van der Rohe.
Best regards
Ana Leonor
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Ana Leonor M. Madeira Rodrigues
Faculdade de Arquitectura - Universidade Técnica de Lisboa
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