If architects usually consider drawing as a tool for the creation and development of any project, recognizing to it an essential role in the gestation phase of the project, it is also true that during the last four centuries, design drawing has sometimes been seen as a tool to set the ideas that architects had “mentally” developed in their minds. On the one hand, we have the idea put forward in 1935 by the famous American poet Gertrude Stein according to which the creation act takes place between the pen and the paper, on the other hand, the conception that the graphic act would have a reduced impact on the creative process and could even prove to be a real “danger” for it. It is important to reflect on this concept of “danger”, which may be related to the fact that the drawing may be sometimes disconnected from the mental act or simply replace it, or well to the intrinsic inaccuracy of the drawing itself in relation to the conceptual elaboration of the project (that is to say, the imprecision of the drawing in the visualization/materialization/representation of the mental idea).
The design drawing, between vagueness and "danger", from Mansart to Domus
Talenti Simona
2020-01-01
Abstract
If architects usually consider drawing as a tool for the creation and development of any project, recognizing to it an essential role in the gestation phase of the project, it is also true that during the last four centuries, design drawing has sometimes been seen as a tool to set the ideas that architects had “mentally” developed in their minds. On the one hand, we have the idea put forward in 1935 by the famous American poet Gertrude Stein according to which the creation act takes place between the pen and the paper, on the other hand, the conception that the graphic act would have a reduced impact on the creative process and could even prove to be a real “danger” for it. It is important to reflect on this concept of “danger”, which may be related to the fact that the drawing may be sometimes disconnected from the mental act or simply replace it, or well to the intrinsic inaccuracy of the drawing itself in relation to the conceptual elaboration of the project (that is to say, the imprecision of the drawing in the visualization/materialization/representation of the mental idea).I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
