Relevantly, an extract from the East book Expressing Interest is available here, which discusses ways of drawing among other things (there are copies of the full book in the library)
The ‘thing on the table’ is usually a map, and we are talking about a place. We are trying to be as precise as possible. Every little granite sett, every name, every window might be important, and might help … in our understanding of where we’re going to. This is not the time to make judgements or to generalise, or for wishing that the world was more tidy or operated according to your ideas or design principles. Wanting to do this drawing – the desire and the process – changes the way I look at a site.
The drawing is an instrument that reveals or charts the specific conditions of a place with all its complexity, conflicts, contradictions – the banal as well as the sublime. Once this drawing exists, a commitment is made. The room is full of potential.
They also quote Practical Exercises from one of my favourite texts: Species of Spaces by Georges Perec.
Sketches for East Barking framework plan, by East
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