Every project here still begins on paper. Not because we distrust software, but because a hand drawing forces you to decide what to leave out.

A slower line

A pencil moves at the speed of thought. You cannot undo a line, so you draw it carefully, and the drawing teaches you what you already knew about the site. When we later move to the computer, the first model is more confident.

We also draw together. Someone puts a sheet of trace over a plan and sketches an idea, and someone else answers on a second layer. It is a conversation that is hard to have across two monitors.

A drawing is a way of thinking, not only of recording.