Abstract
In contemporary architectural practice, designing and architectural drawing generally go hand in hand. Architectural drawings and other visual devices are crucial for architects to think about, develop, and build their projects. In addition to their practical functions, they are means by which a project is conceived, developed, and determined. Architectural drawings are thus the basic means through which architects think; they play a central epistemological role throughout the design process. This essay addresses the inherent cognitive complexity of architectural drawings by considering them as symbols. It makes explicit some of their underlying epistemological assumptions to understand their role in the design process as well as to shed some light on the epistemological processes that take place when dealing with such drawings. This is done by examining a particular set of drawings, that of the Pavilion at Les Cols Restaurant in Olot (Spain) by RCR Arquitectes, taking Nelson Goodman’s theory of symbols as conceptual framework. Focusing on the several architectural drawings from this project, I show the its epistemological aspects as well as the conceptual development of some ideas in architectural drawings.
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