draft, the name chosen for this project, refers simultaneously to an object — in its most literal sense of sketch, essay or study — and to a process — a mode of working, of creating, an iteration. In the context of Architecture and its conception processes, given their nature based on drawing, draft takes on an even clearer denotation: in the scope of this project, process drawings will be worked on, seeking to recognize in them the specificities of the Architectural conception.

As an exploratory project, draft aims to explore process drawings preserved in Architectural Archives, approaching them from the point of view of their materiality. The approach is twofold: on the one hand, to generate knowledge regarding the Architectural practice, and on the other, to propose new categories and vocabulary of Drawing whithin the same archives. The purpose is to learn about the process of ideation and conception that Drawing embodies and conveys, recognizing its importance as an operator for the iteration of ideas, the crossing of references and the verification of solutions.

The aim is to observe the materials, the tangible and concrete dimension of drawn pieces and their crafting: studies, sketches, paper sheets, reproduction tools and processes, materials and modes of drawing. Moreover, the aim is to set off dialogues with the universes and contexts that each piece
condenses and, in turn, expands: extrapolations, parallels and intersections that open up fields of knowledge and reveal “the secret and slow synchronicity of the great structures of life, of the unconscious and of cultures” (Françoise Choay, Postface in La Dimension Cachée, Edward T. Hall, Paris, Seuil, 1971, p. 244).

This project inaugurates the research line “album — itineraries on drawing”, also coordinated by professor Marta Cruz. More than as a disciplinary field, this research line takes interest in drawing as a territory, as a door, as a key and an entrance to the projectual activity in the field of Architecture.
album is in itself a process, an open-ended process. A constant composition and recomposition of materials brought together by elective affinities.

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