Architecture as a stage on which to build stories
“Architecture is like a stage and provides the landscape for the stories that happen on or in it” - says Josephin Ritschel.
German storyteller who works with various design studios, including Neometer, giving her intimate and personal way of interpreting the technical project. She draws capable of captivating and immersing the visitor in space, thanks to the real tactility and authenticity of the sketches.
“I find that drawing is the best way to see” – explains Antonia Pesenti of studio Fable – “it slows you down and forces you to look and understand. I use sketches in so many different ways: to think, to test, to make sense of ideas.” Antonia, who was recently commissioned by the Art Gallery of Sydney to document the making of the new wing, used her drawings to bring This Place to life.
A book of drawings-sketch-collage-photographs hypnotic. “A sketch is much more powerful than a photograph” – she continues – “It is the record of a time gone by. In fact, my drawings are not created in an instant like a photographic image, my drawings contain my thoughts, my listening and my gaze. The sketches are a record of what it feels like to be in a space.”
So in addition to the idea and the technicality, emotions become an integral element for the success of a project. And the design is an accomplice active. Because drawing helps you think. Drawing creates freedom. Drawing is a simple, almost primitive act of presenting a project. Drawing connects people and awakens emotions. Welcome back drawing power.