| Understanding architectural design to be an act having a structure as its aim, this thesis seeks to understand the architectural drawing as operating 'in absentia' of the architectural construction through an analogous relationship with the photographic image. In order to understand the implication of this relationship, three influential texts of photographic theory are used to provide the framework for the comparison. This thesis explains the architectural drawing to act as a reminder of a distinct human condition of existence, that its strength lies in providing a material surface to question, and that it this strength is used to narrate the construing and construction of the building through the act of its making. The physical similarities between the two mediums provide a basis for comparison while the difference in their retrospective and projective dimensions of time allow for identifying distinctive characteristics of the architectural drawing, specifically that its referent can change, it is through the drawing itself the this change occurs, and the act of making the drawing allows the building to unfold in time. |
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