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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: > > > is drawing a way of thinking? > > Getting dangerously close to 'drawing is thinking with a pencil' again :-) > Rachel > -- 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