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Ana Leonor
Dear Xavier,
My thesis was about architectural drawing, I though it is an ideal case 
study, as the communicative intention of an architectural idea is prior to 
everything else. It is called, translated as well as I can, "Drawing, the 
order that structures and universalizes architectural thought". It was 
published in 2000, ed. Estampa, but in Portuguese.

Yours

Ana Leonor

Xavier Pick <[log in to unmask]> escreveu:

> Dear Ana
> 
> Thanks for your reply - I would be very interested in seeing you PhD - 

> sounds very interesting.
> 
> Yours
> 
> Xavier
> On Thursday, September 15, 2005, at 10:48 AM, Ana Leonor Rodrigues 
> wrote:
> 
> > Hello
> >
> > On the discussion of Jac Saorsa an Xavier Pick, I would venture that 

> > they
> > are both right in the way that drawing is, in itself an investigation 

> > of
> > visual reality, both sensible, creative, and non linear (artistic) and
> > ordered, systematic, clear (whatever adjectives to describe a 
> > systematic
> > approach).
> > It also conveys a communication (bypassing verbalization) that goes 
> > from the
> > intensity of incision of the line through several levels and also, 
> > even, to
> > the intention of representation (which is not the only aim of drawing 

> > but an
> > interesting one when one thinks about why do we need to represent).
> >
> > Myself I’m in this in-between situation it seems you both are 
> > yourselves,
> > being an artist and interested in the process of drawing (the 
> > exploration of
> > the limits of drawing – the line, the support, the indirect 
register, 
> > etc.)
> > as an artistic expression, but also made a PhD in visual
> > communication/drawing and I’m extremely interested and challenged by 

> > the
> > whys of drawing, beginning with why do we draw or the interesting 
> > statement
> > of Wittgenstein, “wouldn’t we consider a case of lunacy the man 
who
> > recognising in a drawing the portrait of N.N. would scream “Look, 
it’s 
> > Mr.
> > N. N.” .
> >
> > Well, we could, maybe, go on discussing these topics. Between the – 

> > drawing
> > of drawing, and thinking about drawing.
> >
> > Yours
> > Ana Leonor
> >
> > -- 
> > Ana Leonor M. Madeira Rodrigues
> > Faculdade de Arquitectura - Universidade Técnica de Lisboa
> > home: Av. Gago Coutinho, 25- 2º Esq.
> > 1000-015 Lisboa
> > T.00 351 218492924
> >
> >
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Ana Leonor M. Madeira Rodrigues
Faculdade de Arquitectura - Universidade Técnica de Lisboa
home: Av. Gago Coutinho, 25- 2º Esq.
1000-015 Lisboa
T.00 351 218492924