DRAWING ATTENTION:The Digital Culture of Contemporary Architectural Drawings
ROCA LONDON GALLERY
Grace La (LA DALLMAN, Harvard GSD) co-curates with Jeremy Ficca (Carnegie Mellon), and Amy Kulper (RISD), a diverse collection of more than seventy-five contemporary drawings from established and emerging practitioners around the globe. This work is stimulated by a wide range of inputs: from waste, to olfactory clouds; from political borders to airflow; from geometry to speculative forensics. The exhibition is on view from throughout the fall, with a public event hosted by the curators and invited panellists on November 7, 2019, 18:30-21:00. The opening coincides with this year’s London Design Festival and was reviewed by the Royal Institute of British Architects. (Left: CJ Lim, “Ocean Cleaning”).
The curators say “at the crossroads of architecture and information environments, resides the promise and the speculative future of the drawing. Its capacity to structure, imagine, realize, speculate, transform, politicize, and activate makes the drawing an enduring vehicle for the discipline. DRAWING ATTENTION poses the question: can drawings posit possible futures that eschew vaporization and establish architecture as an agile and critical agent in contemporary digital culture?”