New Work: ‘Is Drawing Dead?’
14/02/2012.
In Pentagram by Michael Bierut, Yale School of Architecture.
metalocus, INÉS LALUETA
metalocus, INÉS LALUETA
This symposium, that considered the present and future role of drawing in the architectural profession, finished this weekend, however his question follow “Is drawing dead?”. A provocative question, but you are probably reading this at your computer, and perhaps the only pencil at hand is the one you chew on for comfort. Since the Renaissance, drawing has been the architect’s primary tool of expression and investigation. Now the use of digital technologies like parametric modeling and computational design have changed the way architects define and depict space.
Michael Bierut's original sketch for the poster.
Pentagram’s Michael Bierut and Yve Ludwig have designed a poster for the event (YOSA, Yale School of Architecture) using the simple design parameters of the series of posters they’ve designed for Yale since 1998: black, white and type. Here, a broken pencil takes the form of a “Y.” And yes, the poster was originally conceived with a hand-drawn sketch.
(txt: by Michael Bierut.)
We just got our hands on the book "Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design" by Michael Bierut. Michael is not only an great designer but also able to so eloquently and humorously talk about his work.
