Drawing in Architecture Education and Research (Heike Biechteler)

What role does drawing play in architectural education? How is drawing used as an instrument for communication, investigation, and representation in architecture and the construction industry? This book assembles contributions to the 2021 edition of the Lucerne Talks, the biennial Symposium on Pedagogy in Architecture at HSLU's School of Engineering and Architecture in Lucerne. Drawing in Architecture Education and Research offers a closer look at the importance of drawing culture in the curricula of Swiss schools of architecture and in the practice of architecture firms.

Conceived as a compendium and reference book for students, teachers, and practitioners alike, this book explores the potential of drawing as a universal tool for communication and understanding among different societies, language groups, and professional communities. It considers drawing in its dual function as an object and a method for theory and practice in architecture, and features strategies for a future transdisciplinary language of drawing that enables narrations and representations of new spatial concepts.

Heike Biechteler is an architect and senior research associate at HSLU's School of Engineering & Architecture in Lucerne.

Dieter Dietz is an architect and professor of architecture at EPFL in Lausanne.

Johannes Käferstein is head of the Institute of Architecture at HSLU's School of Engineering & Architecture and a principal of Zurich-based firm Käferstein & Meister Architekten.

Jonathan Sergison is a cofounder of London and Zurich-based firm Sergison Bates architects and professor of architectural design at the Academy of Architecture, Università della Svizzera italiana in Mendrisio, Switzerland.

The Institute of Architecture at HSLU's School of Engineering & Architecture in Lucerne focuses on forward-looking and practice-oriented education that is at the cutting edge of contemporary architecture in Switzerland.