Variable Projects

Honored to have two drawings published in @kevinhirth ’s beautiful book Drawing Proper/Drawing Improper, a terrific reflection on the many roles of architectural drawing and its sometimes dutiful and sometimes mischievous capacities. #architecture #drawing #variableprojects #dutiful #mischievous

About DD.no5 designed and curated by Abdullah Mallah+Bilge Bal Dirty Drawings Wednesday Talks no.5: Chimeric Practices – Drawing in the Analogue-Digital Threshold, a lecture series took place between October 2025 and March 2026. Myth has long imagined hybrids; creatures stitched from unlikely parts, both wondrous and unsettling: the Greek Centaur, Chimera, Minotaur, or Sphinx; the Egyptian Anubis and Ammit; the Mesopotamian Lamassu and Griffin; or folkloric figures such as the Werewolf, Kitsune, or Naga. From griffins to chimeras, such beings defy categories, inviting us to dream and make otherwise. This series took that mythic impulse into the realm of drawing, where analogue and digital entwined. These were drawings not for construction in any conventional sense, but for conjuring, questioning, and speculating. We followed lines that refused stability, tracing instead toward the wildly imaginative. Here, in their chimeric crossings, drawing became less a medium than a becoming; playful, provisional, and open to unexpected transformation. From ends of drawing to generations, from permissions to experimentations, from materialities to frictions… * 26.11.2025 Wednesday : Nat Chard + Perry Kulper, Instruments of Uncertainty + Constructing Practices * 10.12.2025 Wednesday : Sayan Skandarajah, Revising the Imagınation of Kyoto * 17-18.12.2025 Wednesday and Thursday : Michael Chapman, Coping Mechanisms (talk) + Blind Spots: the hole as a drawing device (Workshop) hosted by İstanbul Bilgi Uni. F.Arch. * 21.01.2026 Wednesday : Kaden Beilman, Falling Up * 04.02.2026 Wednesday : Metis: Mark Dorrian + Adrian Hawker, Storm Gallery: Weathering Drawing * 18.02.2026 Wednesday : Ephraim Joris, Monophorosis:Drawing the Inarchitectural  * 25.02.2026 Wednesday : Bea Martin, Lines of Disquiet: Fragments, Scores and Other Strange Things * 04.03.2026 Wednesday : Adam Marcus/Variable Project + Andrew Kudness / Matsy, Hatchwork: An Archaeology of Generative Drawing  * 11.03.2026 Wednesday: Carl Lostritto, Drawing Algorithms from Games, Toys and Puzzles + the DD.no5 is gone with the wind! … and soon two Capsule Drawing exhibitions, 01. drawing machines 02. architectural printing

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 * 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. * 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

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TOPIC OF THE MONTH | Design for Interspecies Cohabitation The global ecosystem is increasingly out of balance as a result of the accumulation of human activities over many years. In our exploration of ways to recover this balance, numerous questions arise about how to design for a world that is shifting from an anthropocentric approach to one of interdependence between humans and nature. More and more we are realising that we have a great deal to learn from the other species who share our planet as we imagine a future based on cohabitation and cooperation. For our latest Topic of the Month we have some fascinating insights from internationally renowned architects, academics and designers including: ▪️Adam Marcus ▪️Enrique Espinosa ▪️Joyce Hwang + Nerea Feliz ▪️Boonserm Premthada ▪️Daniel Ibáñez + Vicente Guallart + Michael Salka ▪️Gao Changjun ▪️Elizabeth Camuti ▪️Xiaoxiao Zhao Discover more at Roca Gallery, our platform for listening and exchange around topics of design, sustainability, innovation and architecture [LINK IN BIO] #rocabathrooms #rocagallery #architectureanddesign

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