Architectural Design Issue 95-3 : Printworks

Tradition and precedent inspire invention, architectural drawing, and media practice. This issue presents a series of encounters with printed drawings, leading to their transformation and re-imagination in a series of new works.

Archival media from the John Nichols Printmakers Archive, located at the a83 gallery in New York City, is the foundation for these new inventions by contemporary architects. International contributors extend the discourse on architectural representation and its evolution through print media, offering critical reflections on specific pieces. The project and exhibition from which this issue stems concerns questions of the archive; modes through which archival materials may become activated; situated approaches to intricate material objects that allow them to be read in non-normative ways; media transformations; and issues of disciplinary indebtedness and influence. The writers have been invited to address and/or extend these concerns in their consideration of specific works.

Neil Spiller is the Former Visiting Professor of Architecture, Carleton University, Canada and Visiting Professor IAUV Venice. Previously Hawksmoor Chair of Architecture and Landscape at the University of Greenwich, London. He was Vice-Dean and Graduate D

Ashley Simone is a writer, editor, and adjunct associate professor at the Pratt Institute School of Architecture. She brings to Axiomatic Editions over fifteen years of experience in publication practice focusing on art, architecture, and design.