Architecture as Anticipation: The Anticipatory Illumination of Drawing

Coleman, N

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-31737-3_34-1

Architecture as Anticipation: The Anticipatory Illumination of Drawing

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Abstract

Although architectural drawing tends to be thought of as either a technical necessity in relation to organizing the labor required to construct buildings or as though decorative, akin to alluring pictures in a gallery, its main task is anticipatory. Architectural drawings are prefigurative, or, as is argued in this chapter, ought to be. When the anticipatory illumination of architectural drawing is recuperated, the division of labor between architecture, as either brainwork or managerial, and building as physical exertion, is problematized. Returning drawing in architecture to its prefigurative – anticipatory – vocation articulates a method for improving the results of the built environment: technically, emotionally, and artistically.