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Ichnographia Quondam, Campo Marzio section 8, mirror copy plans.
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the state of drawing in education
2008.04.27 16:43
I've been using CAD to draw architecture for 25 years now, and it hasn't been data input, rather data generation. Architectural drawing with a pencil or pen also amounts to data generation.
data
1. Factual information, especially information organized for analysis or used to reason or make decisions.
2. Computer Science Numerical or other information represented in a form suitable for processing by computer.
3. Values derived from scientific experiments.
...I don't think you're for difference at all. I've mastered all kinds of pencils including PrismaColor, and Pelikan Graphos, Rapidographs, Leroy, Prestype, Kroy, Intergraph, Arris. My advocacy of CAD is not ignorance nor "disciplined amnesia", rather an ongoing evaluation. The work of my entire adult life (starting 1978) has involved drawing architecture. Thirty years ago this summer, I will have been in Perry, Missouri generating ink on mylar drawings that are now in the Library of Congress. In 1985, I was at the University of Pennsylvania generating a 3D CAD model of Center City Philadelphia for the Philadelphia City Planning Commission. And since 1996 I've been directing Quondam - a virtual museum of architecture. Through thousands of hours of drawing architecture experience, I've learned that architectural drawing via CAD simply provides more advantages relative to the hours spent drawing.
As to 'collective alienation', perhaps what differentiates me most is that I haven't fetishized an architectural drawing in a very long time.
"...it may not seem so obvious, but it is probably more true that the way we think influences the way we use tools."
--QBVS1, p. 31.
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