Bodies and Space in Architectural Drawing

Dr Carl Douglas is a senior lecturer in Spatial Design at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. He researches spaces that are diffused, decentralised, topological, temporary or indistinct; and the way drawing and imaging strategies address or produce them. He recently co-edited Interstices 21: Fixing, which addressed spatial practices of repair and disrepair.Dr Marian Macken teaches in design and architectural media in the School of Architecture and Planning, University of Auckland, New Zealand. She researches through creative works, primarily focussed on architectural drawing. Marian’s work has been acquired by various international public collections of artists’ books; she recently exhibited at Centre of Contemporary Art Christchurch, NZ. Her book Binding Space: The Book as Spatial Practice was published as part of the Routledge Design Research in Architecture series in 2018.

• List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction. Architectural Bodies Chapter 1. Drawing in Space: Expansions of Architectural Drawing Chapter 2. Drawing Out: Scale and the Displaced Body Chapter 3. Drawing in Time: Tracking Lines in Motion Chapter 4. Inhabiting Drawing: Fields of Encounter Chapter 5. Drawing Room: Embodiment in Studio Conclusion. Thinking Through Drawing NotesReferencesIndex

Bodies and Space is a poetic 'untethering' of the many relations that tie architectural drawing to conventional understandings. Drawing’s connections to space, body, time and imagination are opened out, then entangled, to make architectural drawing a powerful tool for thinking. This book is a valuable resource in drawing’s contemporary possibility.