Drawing Orders: Lines with/out Bodies

Year 2020, Volume: 3 Issue: 1, 51 - 73, 28.01.2020

Seray Türkay Coşkun

https://doi.org/10.37246/grid.589369

Abstract

An investigation of architectural drawing offers a textual analysis of architecture and a critical perspective to discuss the architectural qualities established with(in) the drawing. Historically, drawing becomes prevalent as a disciplinary tool for architectural practice and research as long as it is limitations are acknowledged and challenged. This paper recognizes fluctuating dispositions architectural paradigm from drawing to withdrawing Orders. It traces the displacement of drawings constructed by lines with bodies with the drawings of lines without bodies to illustrate these dispositions. The study constructs a critical reading of the shifting meanings of “order” based on theoretical and practical approaches to drawing. The drawings are used not merely as visual representations of architecture but rather as texts to provide a reading of lines as tools of constructing and destructing orders in architecture. By drawing(s), how lines with/out bodies conceptualized order for different architectures and significantly determined their historiographies become visible.

Keywords

drawing, line, order, representation, architecture

Düzenlerin Çizimi | Çizimin Düzenleri: Bedenli / Bedensiz Çizgiler

Abstract

Mimari çizim araştırması, mimarlık ve mimari çizimle birlikte tanımlanmış olan mimari niteliklerin üzerine eleştirel çözümlemeler sunar. Kısıtları tanınıp sorgulandığı takdirde çizim, mimarlık disiplini içerisinde araştırma ve uygulamanın tarihsel olarak en geçerli aracına dönüşmektedir. Bu çalışma, Düzenlerin çiziminden Düzenlerden çekilmeye doğru mimari paradigmalarda dalgalanan eğilimleri teşhis eder ve bu eğilimleri görselleştirmek için bedenli çizgilerle inşa edilen çizimlerin bedensiz çizgilerle yerinden edilmesinin izini sürer. Mimari çizime yönelik kuramsal ve uygulamalı yaklaşımlara dayanarak “düzen” kavramının değişen anlamları üzerine eleştirel bir okuma sunan araştırma, çizimleri mimarlığın salt görsel temsilleri olarak ele almaz. Çizimler, düzenleri kurmanın ve sökmenin araçları haline gelen çizgilerin okunabildiği metinler olarak kullanılmıştır. Bir diğer deyişle çizimler, düzenin farklı mimarlıklar için nasıl kavramsallaştırıldığını ve tarihselliklerinin nasıl tanımlandığını görünür kılar.

Keywords

çizim, çizgi, düzen, temsil, mimarlık

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