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edition:Dibujar sin borraryotros ensayos,published simultaneouslyby Puente editores,Barcelona,2023.  \nVerlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz KōnigEhrenstrasse4D-50672 Cologneverlag@buchhandlung-walther-koenig.de  \nBibliographical information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Na-tionalbibliographie;detailed bibliographic data are available online at http://dnb.d-nd.de.  \nGraphic Design:RafamateoStudio  \nProofreading:George Hutton  \n⑥of the foreword:Fabrizio Gallanti◎ of the texts:Ricardo Flores and Eva Prats◎ Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz Konig.2023  \nPrinted by GPS in Slovenia  \nISBN:978-3-7533-0390-1  \nContents  \n7 Foreword  \nFabrizio Gallanti  \n11 On Drawing by Hand  \n16 Drawing without Erasing  \n24 Practice,Archive and the Studio on 12 Trafalgar Street  \n30 Translations  \n35 Letters to the Builder  \n40 Second-Hand  \n53 As-Found  \n59 Inventories and Clients  \n67 Flores &Prats'Bookshelf  \n82 Drawing Afternoons  \n94 John Hejduk:House for a Poet  \n98 Pan,Scroll,Zoom  \n106 Field Trip to Pompeii  \n124 Building Communities  \n140 Seven Questions  \n146 Walden 7:Building a Community in 1975  \n158 A Change of Scene:from Academia to Practice  \n163 Text Sources  \n165 Illustration Sources  \n# On Drawing by Hand\n\nEva Prats  \nDrawing is a way of communicating;it makes our thoughts visi-ble,so that we,and others,can scrutinise them.As architects,we draw at the beginning of a project to scope out the work site,to get a grasp of how the project will be used,and to define de-tails as the plans gradually begin to look like a building.Later,during the construction phase,we draw again to establish a di-rect dialogue with the builder.Beyond this,we might also drawto record how the built project is actually being inhabited.In allof these steps,we are most interested in the kind of drawingthat helps us explore and settle on ideas;for us,this happenswhen we draw by hand.It's not a question of skill —it's aboutkeeping the act of drawing as intuitive as possible.  \nYou can explain a project in words,but when you draw thesewords,the resulting drawing sets out a precise geometry thatlanguage alone cannot provide;it offers a fixed material option.When we move on from discussion to drawing,in any project,the dimensions,proportions and scale(in relation to whateversurrounds it)all come into play.A drawing visualises a thought,allowing both you and others to analyse the differences thatmight exist between the words and the drawing.  \nDrawing with measurements has to do with materiality;itnudges our thoughts ever closer to construction,thoughts thatpave the way for the act of building.This is a special aspect ofarchitecture:our drawings always refer to a future action,andwe draw with all the responsibility of building.In our studio,weare not interested in intellectual speculations;we actually testour thoughts within a built reality.This way,they become com-pletely open to interpretation,as with any other built work.  \n# Communicating by hand\n\nWhen we went back to university as teachers,a decade aftergraduating,we realised after a few weeks that the communica-tion in the classroom wasn't quite working.Back when we werestudents,we would spend the whole time drawing by hand,butnow the walls of this third-year workshop were covered in print-outs of digital drawings:is that line supposed to be a pave-ment?Could you please point out the entrance door?Many ofthese lines came straight from the digital files provided to thestudents.That is,it was information that had not been assimi-lated by them;these lines appeared in their drawings but werenot part of their thought process.The students were trying toexplain their ideas about an ongoing project by using drawingsthat could not possibly help them find their bearings.  \nA university workshop is an opportunity 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