Perspectives on a Life in Drawing

Essay, expanding design practices, Janet Abrams, Michael Webb, No Density, Technology and fabrication, WWW Drawing

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This essay is an excerpt of WWW Drawing by Janet Abrams and Mehrdad Hadighi, published by Actar Publishers and Pennsylvania State University’s Department of Architecture, Stuckeman School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture.
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Perspectives on a Life in Drawing
Janet Abrams: Michael, You’ve been drawing for decades now.

Michael Webb: Seven and a half decades, if you count those done when I was six or seven years old.

JA: Do you ‘do’ or ‘make’ a drawing?

MW: That’s a very important question. To ‘make’ a drawing implies a certain inventing, whereas a Working Drawing, where everything has already been designed (or so you delude yourself), would be a drawing you ‘did’. But a drawing you ‘make’ has the implication of creativity. In French, there is presumably no difference: the verb faire translates as ‘to do or to make’.