Vor-textural Translations from Building to Drawing

Abstract

In an era in which architectural drawing’s contribution to processes of design is being continually re-examined in terms of evolving technologies, this essay looks at a tentative drawing procedure that explores drawing’s experimental potential for producing ‘surplus value’ by superseding conventional and representational paradigms and germinating affect. It endeavours to do so by reappropriating the question of ‘translation from drawing to building’ as postulated by Robin Evans and engaging its dialectics in a vortical movement of continuity, intertwined in mutual exchange, to blur their interval and inflect thought. The author proposes that through such experimental processes drawing and architecture might come together and infold their differentials in order to generate novel insights and approaches, and open up potential paths for their relation to evolve.