Out now! “Drawing Codes: Experimental Protocols of Architectural Representation” is the culmination of a curatorial project initiated in 2017. The book explores the broad impacts of computation on architectural representation, and it includes 96 commissioned drawings by a diverse cross-section of contemporary practices. The collection of drawings reveals the endurance and evolution of drawing within today’s model-based paradigm.
Each drawing responds to a shared conceptual prompt and conforms to a standard size and format. The intent is for this consistency to elicit a wide range of approaches to questions of technology, design, code, and representation. The book documents how computational processes such as procedural drawing, digital simulation, automated production, and machine learning can contribute to a new understanding of what drawings are and how they are created. The result is a considerable diversity of medium, aesthetic sensibility, and content, demonstrating how architectural drawing remains a fertile territory for invention and speculation.
The book also features new critical essays by us (@radadam and @matsysdesign ), @ilaberman , @amelynamelyn , @hearnesarah , and @john_mcmorrough .
Available now via our publisher @ard_publishing@oro_editions , Amazon, and many other booksellers worldwide. Stay tuned for upcoming launch events, including @cca_arch_div on November 7, @uhcoad in February, and @tulanearch in March.
#drawingcodes #architecturebooks #architecturalrepresentation #architecturaldrawing @cca_arch_div@uhcoad@tulanearch
From earlier this term— work from my @tulanearch Ecological Tectonics research studio. We kicked off the semester with a one-week research and drawing project called “Making Kin,” in which students document a local pollinator species through careful drawing of its habitat and relationships to other plants and animals. These drawings of bees, beetles, butterflies, birds, bats, and moths employ techniques of architectural representation to construct holistic understandings of more-than-human ecological systems and relationships.
Work by: Kathinka Gundermann, Riley Wemhoener, Matt Stillwell, Miguel Alvarez Gamez, Kristina Hoang, Jorge Gonzalez, Jesse Toohey, Nate Maddalene, Jordan Kenney, Garrett Haley, Camryn Francis, Bryn Mortenson
#ecologicaltectonics #architectureschool #architecturestudent #architecturaldrawing #drawing
Dirty Drawings no.5: Chimeric Practices – Drawing in the Analogue-Digital Threshold
• designed and curated by Abdullah Mallah @abdullah.s.mallah x Bilge Bal @ballbii
• November 2025 -March 2026
#08 Adam Marcus / Variable Projects + Andrew Kudless / Matsys
04 March 2026, Wednesday
7 PM (GMT+3, Istanbul) / 10 AM (GMT-6, Louisiana + Houston)
Online Talk via zoom
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87951818755
Meeting ID: 879 5181 8755
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Hatchwork: An Archaeology of Generative Drawing
This talk by Andrew Kudless and Adam Marcus will present an archive of procedural drawings and architectural ideations developed over fifteen years of experimentation with generative methods of design and graphic representation. The talk will discuss their book and curatorial research project Drawing Codes: Experimental Protocols of Architectural Representation (Applied Research + Design, 2024), their pedagogical approach to architectural representation and computational design, and how this has informed a recently launched exhibition project, “Hatchwork: An Archaeology of Generative Drawing,” a compendium of 1000 experimental drawings.
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Adam Marcus is a New Orleans–based architect and director of Variable Projects @variableprojects . He is Favrot Associate Professor at Tulane University and Research Director of its Center on Climate Change and Urbanism. He co-authored Drawing Codes: Experimental Protocols of Architectural Representation with Andrew Kudless.
Andrew Kudless directs Matsys @matsysdesign , a trans-disciplinary design studio. His work has received national AIA awards and is held in major museum collections. He co-authored Drawing Codes: Experimental Protocols of Architectural Representation and Flux: Architecture in a Parametric Landscape.
Opening tomorrow: “HATCHWORK: An Archaeology of Generative Drawing,” an exhibition by Adam Marcus @radadam and Andrew Kudless @matsysdesign at Penn State’s Stuckeman School @stuckeman_views .
The exhibition draws from an archive of procedural drawings and architectural ideations developed by Marcus and Kudless over fifteen years of experimentation with generative methods of design and graphic representation. The show’s 1000 drawings include computational sketches and prototypes that explore techniques for leveraging computational design tools to produce novel architectural diagrams, drawings, and modes of representation. Sixteen new drawings—eight plans by Kudless and eight sections by Marcus—adapt and repurpose algorithms, scripts, diagrammatic strategies, and formal typologies from the archive across scales and mediums.
#hatchwork #drawing #architecture #architecturaldrawing #drawingcodes
Drawings by students in my section of last fall’s “Building, Landscape, and Environment” second-year undergrad core studio at @tulanearch . The studio emphasized iterative drawing of the architecture in relationship to the broader site and context, as the students developed proposals for a research and visitor’s center for the Bonnet Carré Spillway in Norco, LA.
Work by: Leah Schuhmann, Chloe Payzant, Grace Glotzbach, Claire Salvin, Kya Kellogg, Jude Taran, Matthew Mastrone, Annie Sullivan, Amara Padial-Nogueras, Ryan Clark, Tyler Schulte, Vincent Rodriguez, Toby Reuland
#architectureschool #tulanearch #architecturedrawing #bonnetcarre #norco
Some of the many concept and architectural models by students in my section of the fall “Building, Landscape, and Environment” second-year undergrad core studio at @tulanearch . Models were our primary design tool, as students tested techniques for engaging the ground and the site as they developed proposals for a research and visitor’s center for the Bonnet Carré Spillway in Norco, LA. Great to work with this group of thoughtful and creative designers.
Work by: Matthew Mastrone, Tyler Schulte, Ryan Clark, Amara Padial-Nogueras, Claire Salvin, Annie Sullivan, Toby Reuland, Vincent Rodriguez, Grace Glotzbach, Leah Schuhmann, Jude Taran, Kya Kellogg, Chloe Payzant
#architectureschool #tulanearch #architecturemodel #bonnetcarre #norco
Exciting work from @nk.lc ’s Translations seminar at @tulanearch , exploring composite masonry tectonics, digital fabrication, and circular reuse of waste material.
#translations #masonry #circularity #rubble #ceramics #3dprinting ##3dscanning #tulanearch
