Drawing as ontogenetic force of architecture

This article explores drawing’s potential to inf(l)ect design processes by generating and holding in incipiency sensibilities and vitality affect derived from lived movement-experience. It speculates on how, by doing so, it might carry through and infuse aesthetic or existential values into modes of inhabitation. The author claims that if drawing is to make a difference for architecture, it must be broached from the perspective of ontogenetic processes in order to understand how its singular intrinsic forces might co-compose with extraneous forces to produce surplus-value from within object(ive) constellations. Grounded in process philosophy, and drawing from dance, the essay examines ways of thrusting drawing into movement-thinking to activate its self-creative autonomy, coagulating and transforming a multitude of heterogeneous occurrences into novelty. It then examines how this approach, or manner of drawing, might a(e)ffect our understanding of concepts such as ‘site’, ‘body’, architectural ‘form’ and ‘inhabitation’.