Process + Format

The process of drawing is like writing a diary

it's a way of thinking about time passing

- Rachel Whiteread

In Out Stairway by Rachel Whiteread

We are interested in process:
* architecture as a process: consideration of time, weathering, adaptation, life-span, responsive and dynamic architectures
* understanding and drawing on ecological and man-made processes
* the process of working and generating design

The portfolio is process-based: it is accumulated throughout the year, is reflected upon and reworked as part of an iterative design process. It is not made at the end.
Studying architecture is time-heavy: you need to commit time and energy from the start.

format of work:
* Project diary (A4 sketchbook)
* Portfolio (A1 landscape sheets)
* Supporting studies book (A3 sheets, bound)

See "Manual" in the information links on the right, for detail on the format of work, portfolios and process.

Relevantly, an extract from the East book Expressing Interest [704.944 EAS] is available here, which discusses ways of drawing among other things

The ‘thing on the table’ is usually a map, and we are talking about a place. We are trying to be as precise as possible. Every little granite sett, every name, every window might be important, and might help … in our understanding of where we’re going to. This is not the time to make judgements or to generalise, or for wishing that the world was more tidy or operated according to your ideas or design principles. Wanting to do this drawing – the desire and the process – changes the way I look at a site.

The drawing is an instrument that reveals or charts the specific conditions of a place with all its complexity, conflicts, contradictions – the banal as well as the sublime. Once this drawing exists, a commitment is made. The room is full of potential.

They also quote Practical Exercises from one of my favourite texts Species of Spaces by Georges Perec.

Sketches for East Barking framework plan, by East