By Adam Marcus and Andrew Kudless

Emerging technologies of design and production have transformed the role of drawings within the contemporary design process from that of design generators to design products. As architectural design has shifted from an analogue drawing-based paradigm to that of a computational model-based paradigm, the agency of the drawing as a critical and important form of design representation has shifted. Drawing Codes: Experimental Protocols of Architectural Representation examines the effects of this transformation on the architectural discipline and explores how architects have critically integrated procedural thinking into their drawing process. The book contains 96 drawings that investigate how rules and constraints inform the ways architects document, analyse, represent, and design the built environment. It also features essays by architects and theorists offering perspectives on how computational techniques and thinking can revitalise the role of architectural drawing as a creative and critical act.