37drawings

Stephanie White This is from the 1980s, the era of which Peter Wilson says : ”We did not know at the time that a digital eclipse was around the corner’. I remember doing this drawing, it is at the bottom of a large sheet of other things, most of which I had forgotten; but I remember being surprised by this bit of it, and have never forgotten that feeling. It is an axonometric with shifting axes; each building stretches away from the group much in the way that attention stretches at the edges. We can’t give full attention to everything all the time. Edges often are left to look after themselves, to develop some sort of new dynamic, totally unexpected.

The other drawing (these are all from long sets of project drawings) is 22 x 30, charcoal and pastel. How sensual can one make an architectural drawing? Quite, it turns out.

Doug Wittnebel Sky Data building design study of responsive facade and sky gardens: positive and negative spaces. Multiple grid layers support glazing sections that can respond to the amount of daylight received and will adjust accordingly to minimise heat gain and glare. The glazing sections can also be manually adjusted. The drawing explores alternative means of cladding or applying a skin membrane on a living and working set of environmental spaces. It hints at layers of gleaming, glowing radiance; the façade would have similar qualities of lambency if constructed in real time and space. Several companies offer new glazing products that can alter the inherent properties of reflection, tinting, solar absorption and controlling views. With the immediacy of the sketch and the drawing comes the slow increase of delight as the sketch is created, line by line, dash by dot, hatch by scribble. The delight is from the sensation of the mind and hand working together in tandem, and can be described as a feeling of ‘in the flow’ calm at times and of frenzied energy at other times. The action of drawing on paper, or on a wall, or on a digital tablet are all part of the creative process of the engagement of the hand and the mind in a very cool flow of energy from within to without and on to the receptive surface. I investigate ideas and problems through many varieties of drawing a painting techniques, and am at the ready to encourage the guesses and the attempts that will allow me to see all of the other possibilities that lie within a scenario or a problem. When you draw, your sensibilities awaken to the other layers and the understanding of the problem gets denser and richer and links to other real and imagined realms.

contributors: Mark Baechler is an assistant professor at the School of Architecture, Laurentian University, Sudbury. www.markbaechler.ca Dominique Cheng is is an architect, artist and writer based in Toronto. He founded NONUMENT in 2020. www.nonument.com Andrey Chernykh is a landscape designer and urbanist based in Toronto. andrey-chernykh.squarespace.com Ella Chmielewska is Senior Lecturer in Cultural and Visual Studies, University of Edinburgh. www.cityspeculations.com Stephanie Davidson co-operates the design practice Davidson Rafailidis, and is assistant professor at Ryerson School of Interior Design University in Toronto www.davidsonrafailidis.net Mark Dorrian and Adrian Hawker form Metis, an atelier for art, architecture and urbanism in Edinburgh. www.metis-architecture.com Iván Hernández Quintela is an architect and founder of ludens in Mexico City. www.interferencia.me

Piotr Leśniak is an architect, editor of Drawing On [www. drawingon.org] and runs a postgraduate architecture studio at the University of Strathclyde. See also www.cityspeculations.com Lady McCrady is a New York artist with a studio in New Haven. www.ladymccrady.com Tom Ngo is an architect and artist from Toronto. www.tomngo.ca www.palacit.com Seher Shah ’s background in art and architecture informs her drawing, printmaking and sculpture. She lives in New Delhi. www.sehershah.net Jacob Whibley is an artist who lives and works in Toronto. www.jacobwhibley.com Stephanie White gratefully lives and works in both Calgary in Treaty 7 territory, and Nanaimo, the unceded territory of the Snuneymuxw peoples. Doug Wittnebel is an architect, an illustrator and an artist based in California. www.dougwittnebel.com

summer 2020

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