Constructing an Inquisitive Drawing Practice

This is the keynote lecture following the M.Arch Jury for the Design and Make Taught Postgraduate Programme

Much of our experience of architecture sits outside what is predicted in the programme. Nat will discuss a series of drawing instruments to help construct a tacit knowledge of how architecture might address these indeterminate conditions. He is also learning from other disciplines about methods of understanding a site, both on location and from the studio.

Nat Chard is Professor of Experimental Architecture at the Bartlett, University College London, following professorships at the Royal Danish Academy, Copenhagen, the University of Manitoba and the University of Brighton. He is an architect registered in the UK and has practiced in London. His work has been published and exhibited internationally.

(Image credit: The four versions of Instrument Ten. Lidar scan and photogrammetry by Thomas Parker)