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Drawing Codes: Experimental Protocols of Architectural Representation

Monday, January 27, 2025

6:00 pm -

Emerging technologies of design and production have transformed the role of drawings within the contemporary design process from that of design generators to design products. As architectural design has shifted from an analog drawing-based paradigm to that of a computational model-based paradigm, the agency of the drawing as a critical and important form of design representation has shifted. Drawing Codes: Experimental Protocols of Architectural Representation examines the effects of this transformation on the architectural discipline and explores how architects have critically integrated procedural thinking into their drawing process.

The Drawing Codes exhibition at the University of Houston (January 27 – February 21) brings 96 commissioned drawings by a diverse range of architects investigating how rules and constraints inform how architects document, analyze, represent, and design the built environment.

The exhibition opening on January 27 will begin with a short lecture by Andrew Kudless and Adam Marcus, the co-curators of the exhibition and associated book. Their talk will focus on the project’s premise and the role of computation in the pedagogy of architectural drawing. Following the talk, the exhibition will open with a reception outside of the Mashburn Gallery.


This event is a part of the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design’s Entanglements Lecture Series.

Location
Mashburn Gallery, Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design