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Notes on drawing, and on the drawings:

Mark Baechler Drawing is a slow process of exploring

architectural thought. This drawing is part of an ongoing series of large works that I began in 2013, titled Abrahamic Architecture . The duration of time required by graphite drawings at this scale invites years of silent contemplation on the subject matter. While drawing, the buildings are etched in my imagination, connections are revealed and new ideas emerge from the paper.

Abrahamic Architecture (2.540m x 3.429m)

Dominique Cheng The diagram is a whimsical account that describes the origins of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City as a symphonic masterwork resulting from a secret love affair between Frank Lloyd Wright (the building’s noted architect) and Peggy Guggenheim (socialite and heiress to the Guggenheim family fortune). His signature porkpie hat and her Safilo sunglasses may have inspired a flurry of architectural ideas that were too subtle and fleeting even for them to consciously realise at the moment. The composition of curves that crescendo in a whirling atrium, the choice to finish the floors in elegant Italian terrazzo, and the audacity of pink stucco on the exterior were signs of a creative mind caught in a reverie. On diagrams: Diagrams are visual devices for representing quantitative information in an abstract way. It is a technical genre of drawing that often requires two elements: 1. a graphical syntax of symbols, arrows, lines, and notations, and 2. a specific set of parameters through which algorithms can be processed to generate sequences of relationships. They can be used to describe how something functions or the relationships between things. They have the capacity to deal with hard data or soft facts.

Title: Opus Ziggurat Size: 12” x 12” Medium: Digital Illustration Year Completed: 2020

Andrey Chernykh Making Invisible Visible

One of the core principles of art and why artists draw is to reveal something that is invisible. Employing that technique in a design language can be very powerful. The coastal edge of an Arabian peninsula fronting the Red Sea is a place of incredible biodiversity that is constantly shifting and changing. When comparing it to other landscapes that visibly change with the seasons, its desert condition often appears static to the naked eye. A regional section employing visual collage of analysis and research reveals a landscape that is both fragile and complex at the same time. The revelatory aspect of the drawing effectively lays bare the systems at play, their value and interconnectedness. From the top of the mountains tiny particles carry microbes and nutrients, with precipitation, down the dry valleys (wadis) all the way to the coast. Down there they support a rich marine habitat of sea turtles nesting in the sand dunes and exotic Dugongs swimming amongst the coral reefs, feeding on the sea grass. For us as designers these are all assets to be leveraged and protected. In landscape architecture the drawing can and should express a powerful view of the importance of natural systems in supporting our human settlements, exploring previously unseen challenges and opportunities.

Red Sea Ecology: I combed through a lot of scientific documents as well as maps on the Arabian Peninsula and then drew the majority of relevant information in Adobe Illustrator with some individual elements done in Photoshop and imported back into Illustrator. Drawing courtesy of MT Planners Limited, completed 2017

Ella Chmielewska The two pages of my notebook show a group of my stenographic ‘thought-scribbles’ that note links between visual sources (photographs, books, maps, artworks, filmic scenes, pages from magazines) and textual documentation (in poems, books of essays, letters, captions of photographs). Here the lines are not drawing but holding the yet unarticulated connections across varied modalities documenting the ruination and the human loss in the city. The surface of the notebook is for me a thinking space that partakes in working through notes from reading and examining images, a place for figuring spatio-temporal linkages between words, images and archival objects. The notebook always accompanies my reading. My writing starts on and from such pages of scribbles that interrupt my readings. (The notebook is Korean brand Paperways, size is 21x13cm )

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