Olá,
Well, I never found a thinking pencil , it seems there was some discussion
in this list about it which I missed partly.
The phrase has a poetical intention that is perfectly acceptable, also
thinking of the when it was written and that it was a lyrical way for
someone to speak about something he loved.
We are dealing, when thinking or speaking about artistic or near artistic
expressions with more then logic or cognition; there is sensibility,
affections and so on as we know, so it is possible that sometimes, when
writing, the sentence goes a little freer.
Myself I did not phrase a question, but an affirmation of what I think.
For some years now I’ve been studying architectural drawing as a case study
for some understanding of drawing (my PhD is on the subject).
What is interesting in architectural drawing is that it is not an end in
itself as an artistic expression, it really is a process of communication of
the architect with himself, as he is developing and forming his
architectonical conceptions and with the architect to others.
In this case, expression is useful, to convey ideas but nor is it the main
characteristic, nor an aim; this kind of design drawing (in it’s several
stages) is aimed at “conveying ideas” in a graphic form, for future
construction.
You may argue that these ideas are not thoughts, but it is the way an
Architect or Designer thinks, it is through shapes, forms, shades, flows (it
is visual and pluridimensional and seldom is it abstract as other mind
processes of thinking) and these are the “shapes of his/hers ideas” that is
why drawing tends to be one of the preferred expressions of this “thinking”.
For me (I’m an artist by formation and practicing) it was the ideal object
of study, as the drawings are always under any definition of Drawing,
nevertheless with the assumed character of a “working tool” (not all
architects draw, but I was interested in those who do).
If you look at the History of Architecture, you will discover that the
Western concept of Architecture itself is interwove with drawing and with
all the instruments and elements drawing has to register and transmit …
It was around the 16th or 17th century, with the tendency to have precise
and rigorous registering graphic codes, and with the later
internationalization and normalization of them, that the architect and all
projectionists could free themselves from the place of building, and work at
the desk (at the time and until the recent existence of specific software)
with pencil and paper. These codes and notation systems an Architect uses
are an invention from drawing and are in an unclear frontier between drawing
and coded communication.
Even so, I still accept the idea of a “thinking pencil”.
Yours
Ana Leonor
Rachel Pearcey <[log in to unmask]> escreveu:
> On 27/11/05 4:11 pm, "Ana Leonor Rodrigues" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> > is drawing a way of thinking?
>
> Getting dangerously close to 'drawing is thinking with a pencil' again :-)
> Rachel
>
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