Drawings are still the currency of the architect; the logic of drawing is, has been, and continues to be a core aspect of how architecture is both envisioned and represented. We use drawings that still largely conform to agreed-upon conventions within the profession and the associated trades, even if it is almost always through digital means that we produce them. But how we actively ‘draw’ our subjects beyond frozen model views is critical to developing and articulating possibility and unearthing unseen depths.

The Projecting Forward section was preoccupied with the role of drawing projections past and present, toward understanding of projection’s role in continually shifting representational terrain. While using architecture as the subject matter, we borrowed from the literary experiments of Raymond Queneau’s Exercises in Style to develop our own explorations into the possibilities of representation through projection, and projection through representation.

The result of the course was the collection of visualizations below.