drawing form from fiction
research, teaching, and student work
Drawing Form from Fiction is an architecture seminar on spatial form in literary fiction. An introduction to the discourse of spatiality and a range of literary-architectural precedents provide the foundation of the course. Students develop allegorical architectures based on their analyses of spatial attributes of a story, in this case, a novel. A series of drawing prompts request analytical and allegorical responses to a text using collage: diagrams, plans, sections, axonometrics, and experimental projections. Whether conventional, ‘physical’ settings, such as cities, buildings, landscapes, relational structures of character and plot, compositional arrangements of time and movement, or the architectonic form of the text itself, the seminar focuses on the inextricability of space from narrative meaning.
Simon Scott, allegorical section, Ulysses, 2024
Best in Show, Student Category, American Society of Architectural Illustrators - Architecture in Perspective 38 Competition 2024
Best in Category, Design Undergraduate Upper Division, Design Communication Association 2024 Drawing Exhibition
Minqing Zhang, topological axonometric, White Noise, 2024
Mason Miles, threshold study, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler, 2024
Kolbie Jones, allegorical section, The Castle, 2022
Andrew Shearman, topological section, The Crying of Lot 49, 2023
Award of Distinction, Design Communication Association 2024 Drawing Exhibition
Mason Miles, allegorical section, The Castle, 2022
Award of Distinction, Design Communication Association 2022 Drawing Exhibition
Featured Cover Illustration for Representation 2023-2024, Journal of the Design Communication Association, ISSN 2374-5150
Bernardo Baustista, topological section, The Trial, 2024
Award of Distinction, Design Communication Association 2024 Drawing Exhibition
Mason Miles, threshold fragment, The Castle, 2022
Award of Distinction, Design Communication Association 2022 Drawing Exhibition
Jacee Hammons, topological plan, The Castle, 2024
Juror Award, Design Communication Association 2024 Drawing Exhibition
Ryan Lorensen, allegorical section, The New York Trilogy
Student Award of Distinction, American Society of Architectural Illustrators - Architecture in Perspective 39 Competition 2025
Publications: Featured Cover Illustrations for Representation 2023-2024, Journal of the Design Communication Association; “Drawing Form from Fiction,” Representation 2023-2024, Journal of the Design Communication Association, ISSN 2374-5150
credits
Architecture 504: Drawing Form from Fiction, University of Idaho-Boise, 2022 - 2024, Dwaine Carver
Selected student works:
Bernardo Bautista
Jacee Hammons
Kolbie Jones
Ryan Lorensen
Mason Miles
Simon Scott
Andrew Shearman
Minqing Zhang
Publications: Featured Cover Illustrations for Representation 2023-2024, Journal of the Design Communication Association; “Drawing Form from Fiction,” Representation 2023-2024, Journal of the Design Communication Association, ISSN 2374-5150, 2024; Design Communication Association International Conference and Exhibit - DCA 2022 international conference proceedings, Auburn University, 2022
Exhibits: Design Communication Association International Conference and Exhibit - Montana State University, 2024; American Society of Architectural Illustrators - Architecture in Perspective 38 Competition 2024; Design Communication Association International Conference and Exhibit - Auburn University, 2022