PAPER[space] Architecture: A tool kit for Speculative Digital Drawing

Despite exponential developments in technological manufacturing and computational design, the act of drawing still plays a role as the central vehicle for speculation in architectural practice. Historically, drawing has been tied to not only advances in architecture, but advances in technology and culture as well. From Alberti’s Lineaments, to da Vinci’s Machines, to Thomas More’s visions of Utopia, Laugier’s Primitive Hut, Ledoux’s City of Chaux, Boullee’s Cenotaph to Newton, and Hugh Ferriss’ visions of New York, innovation in the field of architecture over the last 600 years has inextricably been tied to speculative drawing.