On Architecture

Architecture is the discipline of creating surroundings and forms that excite the senses and contain the human body. In our studies of optics and research into different cultural modes of representation, we seek through drawing, a personal act, a profound prognostication of the material, the thing to be built. For instance, how does one represent or convey a curved surface, or dome on a two dimensional surface? We still have absolutely no way to represent being inside one of Richard Serra's Torqued Ellipses nor a simple way of representing binocular visual effects. Drawing by hand has always been our main tool of exploration, no less so in this computer age. Drawing and various methods of 3D projection are innovations first made from within the field of architecture that architects must take back from the software engineers and technicians and innovate as only they can.