drawing form from fiction
research, teaching, and student work
Drawing Form from Fiction is a seminar on spatial form in literary texts. Writings on spatiality, from Walter Benjamin to Lefebvre to de Certeau, as well as a range of architectural-literary works, from Piranesi to Hejduk to Douglas Darden, are the foundation of the course. Students are introduced to literary spatial types: descriptive, ‘physical’ settings, cities, buildings, and landscapes; relational structures of character and plot; compositional arrangements of time and movement; as well as the architectonic form of the texts themselves. Using selected novels as points of departure, alternative collage/drawing methods are explored toward the development of spatial narratives. Drawing prompts request analytical diagrams, topological projections, speculative plans, sections, and axonometrics, all toward the development of each student’s literary, allegorical architecture.
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: DCA 2022 Design Communication Association International Conference and Exhibit - Auburn University, 2022; DCA 2024 Design Communication Association International Conference and Exhibit - Montana State University, 2024; American Society of Architectural Illustrators - Architecture in Perspective 38 Competition 2024