Speculations on the city in architectural drawing: dogma as a contemporary critique

2022-8-29
Karaköy, Nilay
Drawings have become a potential design tool in architecture, not limited to the representation of the object. Since they are more than representations of their objects, they become a conceptual model of reality rather than a reproduction. For this reason, the drawings are not limited to architectural objects, they are also related to the context in which the design is built, namely the city. Constructed with a particularly dense pattern of roads and buildings, the modern city has been an important part of architectural debates since the beginning of the twentieth century, thus becoming an inseparable object of architectural drawings. In addition, the diversity of techniques and mediums used to produce drawings has also influenced the way architects perceive and respond to urban conditions by reading, analyzing, decontextualizing and recontextualizing them. For this reason, the thesis focuses on representing architectural drawing as a project that explores the relationship between architecture and its other, the city, through a series of interdisciplinary conventions. To do this, a study is made of twentieth-century architectural drawings as a material expression which proposes a mental process of architectural creation, and a critical look at the existing city through the nature of its technical properties. Based on the work of the Dogma office, the thesis aims to present a critical view of today's concept of the city by the agency of drawing. Through an analysis of the drawings of Dogma, the role of architecture in understanding the contemporary city are evaluated to further elaborate the possibilities of architecture to propose an idea for the city.

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Citation Formats
N. Karaköy, “Speculations on the city in architectural drawing: dogma as a contemporary critique,” M.Arch. - Master of Architecture, Middle East Technical University, 2022.