bureau d'étude de pratiques indisciplinées

Diffusions

Drawing Architecture: Conversations on Contemporary Practices

Mediating Drawing Practices: Curatorial Reflections on Encounter and Dialogue
in
Drawing Architecture: Conversations on Contemporary Practice, edited by Mark Dorrian, Riet Eeckhout and Arnaud Hendrickx.

This book explores, debates and exhibits practices of contemporary architectural drawing, taking as its basis a series of meetings between a cohort of architects, critics and curators who discussed drawing practices and production in their own work and research. The participants — Laura Allen, Bryan Cantley, Nat Chard, Peter Cook, Mark Dorrian, Riet Eeckhout, Adrian Hawker, Perry Kulper, CJ Lim, Shaun Murray, Mark Smout, Neil Spiller, Natalija Subotincic, Michael Webb, Mark West and Michael Young — focused on drawings or drawing-related artefacts, around which dialogues took place. Beyond the usual representational imperatives of architectural drawing, the group considered and discussed its agency as a site of emergence and imagination. Organised in relation to specific topics and framed by contextual essays by Nat Chard, Mark Dorrian, Riet Eeckhout, Michael Young, Thomas-Bernard Kenniff and Carole Lévesque, the book includes a selection of exquisite and fascinating key drawings by the various contributors, together with edited transcripts of discussions developed at the symposia. The drawings presented here are in dialogue with one another, while their authors are themselves in extended conversation, making the book an enduringly important document and resource for thinking about architectural drawing.

«Mediating Drawing Practices: Curatorial Reflections on Encounter and Dialogue.» In Drawing Architecture: Conversations on Contemporary Practice, edited by Mark Dorrian, Riet Eeckhout and Arnaud Hendrickx, 76-79. London: Lund Humpries, 2023.