Author(s): Adam Modesitt & Carrie Norman
There exists ample precedent for artists engaging architectural subject matter in public work, often at the scale of buildings. The artist Richard Haas, for example, executed a series of large-scale murals illustrating architectural facades and interiors. [1] It is far less common however, for architects to deploy drawing as a medium for engaging public space. Since the era of Leon Battista Alberti, in which architectural labor divorced from construction labor, the dissemination of drawings by architects has been primarily restricted to private commissions or internal trade publications. As Robin Evans famously noted, architects’ drawings are not a direct medium, but instruments in service of another medium to be executed by others. [2] Despite renewed attention to drawing among architects recently, architectural drawing still rarely engages the public realm directly. [3, 4, 5]
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978-1-944214-26-5