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Designing Living Bricks: The Architectural Drawing as Conversational Platform

Lookup NU author(s): Simone Ferracina

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Abstract

The paper argues that the architectural drawing, as a technology for thinking and communicating design ideas between project stakeholders, has remained largely untouched by the advent of Actor-network theory (ANT) and the so-called ‘ethnographic turn.’ Rather than changing to reflect a distributed understanding of agency or the lived on-goingness of projects and buildings, the drawing continues to describe a simple line (from agent to patient) and to congeal into artifacts used to impart commands, increase the architect’s status or construct brands (the monologue-drawing and the brand-drawing). From the perspective of Living Architecture, an EU-funded research scheme combining architecture, bio-energy and synthetic biology, the paper proposes new modes of drawing (the medium-drawing, the exaptation-drawing and the seed-drawing) that challenge binary abstractions and demand that the architect relinquish a measure of authorship and control to engage in conversations with the other – large and small, disciplinary and non-disciplinary, human and nonhuman, alive and inert.

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Author(s): Ferracina S

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Architecture Design Theory (Ardeth)

Year: 2018

Volume: 2

Issue: 2

Pages: 137-155

Print publication date: 23/05/2018

Online publication date: 23/05/2018

Acceptance date: 17/09/2017

Publisher: Rosenberg & Sellier

URL: http://ojs.lexis.srl/index.php/ardeth/article/view/42

DOI: 10.17454/ARDETH02.09

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