Abstract
This paper explores the dynamic and tactile values that may be involved in the historical emergence of the line as a fundamental graphic resource. It attempts to look beyond the paradigm of visual-perceptual abstraction that is commonly associated with our concept of the line, suggesting that those core values form part of a long, slow and open historical process in which a primary graphic exercise indissolubly linked to the materiality of objects gradually collected a series of geometric empirical findings and, generation after generation, compiled an imaginary store. Eventually, the first geometric treatises imposed a strict syllogistic structure on this collection of individual geometric models. In addition to this material, dynamic concept of the line, the author argues that the first architectural drawings were a translation of sequential orders, an experience closely akin to the profound nature of ritual
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