What is it to read a drawing? Traditionally, we read writing and see drawing. But if we transgress that custom, then we accrue to drawing the privilege of the autonomy of the reader. If we limited ourselves to seeing drawings as drawings then there would be no possibility of unhooking signs from objects …
To Read A Drawing (1983)
– Peter Eisenman
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Category
design methodologies on their own work commentaries, rants & reflections Drawing Matter archive: research & collecting
Period
c20th
Architect
Peter Eisenman
Medium
drawing
Tags
sketch projection (axonometric isometric) domestic DMC