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DrawingConstructions
an elective course at the Faculty of Architecture at Istanbul Bilgi University
initiated and instructed by Bahar Avanoğlu since 2017.
DrawingConstructions is an elective course and an experimental collective drawing project offered to undergraduate students at the faculty of architecture at Istanbul Bilgi University. It deals with the hidden drawing drives inherent to architecture and contemplates on the diverse semblances these drives could take on. It intends to discover various possible correspondences between these semblances.
Rather than taking drawing on a representational level or as a compression of spatial data measurements, the course critically discusses and engages with theories of architectural representation that take drawing as a symbolic construction and as an embodied act. It denies the classical separation between drawing and construction and works towards an expanded field that dissolves the disciplinary boundaries set in-between. In that regard, DrawingConstructions foremostly investigates the states of drawing as ‘construction’. While discussing theories related with the idea of “unbuilt”, the course tactically focuses on the esoteric realm of architecture that are particularly related with the act of drawing.
It is a hands-on class where the students are encouraged and invited to be actively involved in the embodied act of drawing with a certain level of performativity.
The five quests, DrawingConstructions has dealt with so far, are as follows:
1* “The Question of Tarot Cards and Architecture” (Spring, 2017)
2* “The Autobiographical Ars Combinatoria” (Spring 2018)
3* “DissectionDrawings & DrawingDissections” (Fall 2018)
4* “Other Resurrections Between Dissection and Anamorphic Disguise” (Fall 2019)
5* “Constructing The Table between Disguise and Dissection, A Polyphonic Drawing Experiment” (Fall 2020)
6* “The Clock(s) of a Drawing and the Hermetic Time-Reader/Teller: Dreaming of DrawingDials and the Enigmatic Hour(s) of A Drawing” (Fall 2021)
7* RE–“LOVING YUSUF”:Polyphonic Recitational Drawings (Spring 2023)
8* RE–“LOVING YUSUF”:Polyphonic Recitational Drawings (Spring 2024)
9* Acheiropoieta of Earthed Prays (upcoming, Spring 2025)
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Constructing The Table between Dissection and Anamorphic Disguise: A Polyphonic Drawing Experiment, DrawingConstructions
“Cine-Poetic Constructions”, Constructing The Table, Workshop by Ipek Avanoglu, DrawingConstructions
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