Almost all the texts in this anthology revolve around a single theme: drawing. Although distinguished by subtle variations in their conception and approach, the seventeen texts in this volume can be understood as a single, continuous monologue with almost compulsive returns to the same idea. Flores & Prats believe in the capacity of hand drawing to generate multiple, complex layers of knowledge about a space or place, thereby guiding the successive steps of the design process.
Their obsession with drawing is a form of optimistic resistance; they believe that if mobilized with intensity, rigor, and passion, the tools of architectural representation can still help us decipher the world around us.
Contents
Foreword by Fabrizio Gallanti
On Hand Drawing
Drawing Without Erasing
The Practice, the Archive, and the Trafalgar Street Studio
Relocations
Letters to the Builder
Secondhand
As It Was
Inventories and Clients
The Flores & Prats Library
Drawing Afternoons
John Hejduk: House for a Poet
Pan, Scroll, Zoom
Study Trip to Pompeii
Building Communities
Seven Questions
Walden 7: Building a Community in 1975
Change of Scene: From Academia to Practice
