Blueprints For Future Outlaws | Cloud Portals- OVPR Curate Program

"Travel funds to conduct a thorough visual analysis of technical drawings produced for mass distribution; to examine documents relating to their reproduction and sale to American libraries and to visit buildings depicted in the drawings"

I am visiting various drawing archives and libraries in Paris, France to examine drawings and the information they contain that can not be detected via photographs displayed on the internet.

Sketching has played a significant role in architectural education throughout history. Initial gestural sketches and the subsequent iterations that follow are critical as a means of generating formal and spatial relationships; clarifying intentions; assessing quality and logic in dialogue with critics; and most significantly, shedding light on the intention of the design as it progresses from idea to final work. Recent shifts in architectural education that prioritize digital production over these analogue methodologies risk the erasure of process, reducing the architecture student's ability to assess the logic and impact of their decision-making; and the future scholar's ability to understand the nuance of each developmental stage of design.