In 2019, the focus of the second semester Architectural Representation studio at SEA was to introduce hybrid drawing, i.e blending hand-drawing and digital techniques of image making. Rather than maintaining it as a passive skill-building studio, our attempt was to push students to find their own ways of creating an imagery for a given provocation.
Two aspects were mobilized simultaneously:
1. Basic introduction to key softwares (AutoCAD, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign and Google Sketchup)
2. A provocation, where each student was asked to select from a matrix of words, resulting in a phrase that would become their brief for representation.
The matrix for the provocation is as shown above. Students were asked to pick one word from each column to arrive at their "brief". Individual selections from the columns of the table resulted into unexpected, but imaginative propositions like: “Room of crowded ghosts” or “Pavilion above dark trees”. Through referencing artists, architects and graphic designers, the studio worked out possibilities of visually representing each of the phrases, in order to open up image-making in architectural representation as an important tool towards argumentation, evocation and imagination of space.
