Envisioning architectural drawing as a full-scale, bodily, and spatial practice, Marian Macken and Carl Douglas explore how architects imagine, perceive, and shape space through drawing, positioning the body not just as a subject but as an active medium for design.
Bodies and Space in Architectural Drawing challenges conventional scale relationships and advocates for full-scale, performative drawing methods that expand the boundaries of architectural practice. Drawing is defined as a verb: a matter of time and duration. Drawings are inhabited, present, and embodied-redefining how space is measured, represented, and understood. Through case studies and examples, the authors examine diverse approaches to architectural drawing, including motion-capture and immersive technologies, analogue and digital methods of scanning, and gestural drawing. They highlight how drawing can be inhabited by both the drawer and the viewer, offering a dynamic, immersive experience.
Crucially, this book reinstates drawing as a spatial, temporal, and bodily act. It reframes the role of scaled artefacts-models, maps, and drawings-as intermediaries that mobilise architectural thinking. Rather than treating the body as a static reference point, it explores how moving, thinking bodies generate and reside within drawings. This is essential reading for students, practitioners, and researchers in architecture and spatial design seeking to rethink drawing as a performative and conceptual tool
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Bodies and Space in Architectural Drawing
Line, Movement and Scale
- 217 pages
- English
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Architecture DesignTable of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Series
- Title
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Architectural bodies
- 1 Drawing in space: Expansions of architectural drawing
- 2 Drawing out: Scale and the displaced body
- 3 Drawing in time: Tracking lines in motion
- 4 Inhabiting drawing: Fields of encounter
- 5 Drawing room: Embodiment in studio
- Conclusion: Thinking through drawing
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Copyright
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