Architectural Drawing: It is an Action

The thesis examines key themes and selected artworks produced since the late 1960s in relation to performance art and drawing practices to inform each series of investigations. The makings are interested not in the final product but in the process undertaken to create them, each drawing using the body within a set of different parameters.

Organised into two parts, the first focuses on drawing in space and considers how the act of drawing involves the body's actions. It explores the body's presence, the possibilities of it as an instrument, and the implications of time and temporality which are bound to performative drawing.

The second, drawing between space, shifts to the urban scale, the drawing and body in motion. It shows how the body can move through space to record the urban context. The drawings migrate off the page and into space, marking it.

Making these drawings leads to a number of different approaches to thinking about the body as a performative tool and questions what this may mean to someone who draws spatially. The drawings are related to spatial disciplines through scale, occupation, space, and time. They offer an alternative perspective to what it means to inhabit a drawing and to recording time and temporality within it. The drawings invite space to be an active participant in the production of drawings and find value in drawing full scale.