Animating Guarini

Animating Guarini is a historical account and a reimagining of orthographic projection as a drawing technique that precedes convention.

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The evolution of orthographic
projection from a technique to a convention has provided architecture
with orthographic drawing - a form of imaging continually used to
present, defend, and build architecture. Orthographic projection's
geometric principles and complex history are no longer part of an
architect's education, and yet its underlying Euclidean geometry informs
the materialisation of architecture, regardless of complexity.


This
essay explores the instrumental history of orthographic projection to
reacquire the generative techniques of drawing that do not deal with
visualisation. Animating Guarini is thus a historical account and a reimagining of orthographic projection as a drawing technique that precedes convention.