Introduction

Architects draw for a myriad of reasons and purposes. They draw to assimilate places and precedents. They draw to generate ideas. They draw to imagine, to express the spatial qualities of a design. They draw to develop a concept into a consistent project. They draw to communicate ideas and propositions to a team, to patrons, to clients and civil servants. They draw to manage and mediate the different construction stages with contractors, craftsmen, and engineers. They draw to produce elaborations for treatises, journals or personal portfolios. Most of all, architects draw because drawing enables them to explore and analyse matters related to forms and spaces.