Iman Fayyad
Designer and Lecturer in Architecture, Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Drawing Form
The art historian Ernst Gombrich reminds us that the two-dimensional image is ambiguous. It represents infinite possibilities of three-dimensional configurations. Techniques of projective transformation—from orthography and stereography, to surface development and oblique distortions—challenge the capacity of the flat plane to map spatial relationships. “Drawing Form” will present ways of working with the flat plane as a motivator for form production and venue for spatial imagination. We will draw from examples in cartography, mathematics, art, and linguistics, to explore how projection—a process that necessitates the selective obfuscation of information—addresses cognitive and visual perception, subjective experience and bodily movement, material behavior, and the tectonic expression of architecture.
