Opening Up the Space of Drawing: Lines and the Locus of Creation in Architectural Design, #6.

“Architectural sketches” (Author, 2022)


TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Introduction: Opening Up the Space of Drawing Again

2. Structure and Argument

3. The Representational Paradigm: Three Basic Assumptions About Drawing by Hand

4. Entering the Space of Drawing: The Performative Paradigm

4.1 From neutral surface to inhabited topos

4.2. From traces to situated figurations

4.3. From lines-as-marks to lines-as-processes

5. Conclusion: The Locus of Creation Explored


The essay that follows has been published in six installments; this, the sixth and final installment, contains section 5.

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An earlier version of this essay was previously published as (Paans, 2024a), except for the Introduction, which was written specifically for APP.


5. Conclusion: The Locus of Creation Explored

Summarizing by way of conclusion, lines are active processes that are conjoined in situated figurations. In turn, these figurations appear within a topos, or generative space of architectural creation. Criticizing the representational paradigm, the alterative account I sketched out in section 4 aims to animate every element of the drawing, from the lines to the figure and the surface. Instead of being representational, the alternative paradigm I described is performative. It ascribes an active and animated character to the drawing and the practices involved in it.

To adopt this dynamic perspective is important, as it allows us to conceptualize the locus of creation in architectural design in a different manner. There is not enough space here to explore all aspects in-depth, but we can start by paying attention to two characteristics:

First, the locus of creation is not located “in the head”. Nor is it completely contained in the representational contents of a drawing. That which is depicted in an image always points beyond itself and opens up towards the non-conceptual and the allusive. The locus of creation is not some originary point where an initial idea comes from but is contained in the process of creation itself. Unless it is witnessed, it cannot be found, pointed at or defined in clear terms.

Figure 9: A model of drawing practices and the locus of creation. The creative process unites drawer, lines, and figurations in the context of a topos. (Author 2024)

One must catch the creative process “in motion” in order to understand where the locus of creation resides. Correspondingly, it is misleading to focus too much on the “master sketch” that acquires a mythic status. Instead, we would acquire a much more accurate view of the creative process if we investigate the developing relations between the drawer, the drawn, the surface and the resulting thinking process. It cannot be emphasized enough that the drawing surface is a topos, while lines are processes. Keeping these two points in mind enables us to fully appreciate the inherent performative character of drawing, as opposed to its representational counterpart. The person drawing the line is changed by the practice of drawing, as the body remembers the structures that are gesturally enacted on the surface. While the idea might be intellectually elaborated through the capacity for deliberative reasoning, the entire body is materially involved with the drawing to actualize it in the world. The drawer, the drawn, and the space of drawing by hand form an aggregate, a locus of creation that can only be observed “in action.” In this sense, the aesthetics or “the science of sensibility” is first and foremost a practice of observing the emerging relations between drawer, topos and lines/figuration in action within the context of a creative process (see Fig. 9 above). By paying attention, the inherent richness of the drawing opens up and allows for inhabitative imagination and expansion.

Second, the idea of a locus implies a locality, a focal point. So, we should inquire where the “locus of creation” is actually located. Put concisely, it resides in the effective juxtaposition of its contributing elements. In the moment that thinking processes, drawn lines, embodied gestures, the spatiality of the surface and perceptual experiences come together, all elements for true creativity are brought together in a single point in space and time. The fact that the drawn line possesses a certain permanence but is not yet completely “settled” turns it into a visual instrument that is perpetually effective. It can be revisited again and again yet allows also for further definition and determination. Above, I described the drawing as a “locus of tensions”—the incomplete and the defined, the vague and the precise, the technical and the poetic all exist side by side. Often these elements resist closure but they spur the process of creation. The tension inherent in the drawing is often the result of incongruities between the elements that are present in it: logically strictly speaking, there seems little reason to juxtapose them. By concentrating these elements in the space of a single drawing, new perceptual experiences suggest themselves, emerging into the cognitive foreground once an idea is revisited again and again. The effectiveness of the drawing keeps it “at work.” No matter how active and dynamic the drawing is, however, it is only so in relation to a perceptive and creative subject who is open to what it suggests. The very space of the drawing exerts its own character and creates a place for thinking through its elements. Its inherent orientation is organized by the most basic categorial system of our thinking, and as such resonates with it.

So, by adopting a dynamic view of the practice of drawing lines, we can grasp, in the context of architectural creation, how inherently relational, embodied, gesturally anchored, navigational, and spatially oriented the hand-drawn lines are. Moreover, we can see how they play out within the productive tensions of openness and determination, poetic force, aesthetic sensibility and reasoned argument. But above all, we can grasp how in situating even the first line on a surface, we fully enter the “space of drawing” itself.

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