He Was An Architect
By
Ashon Crawley |
NPR
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In my undergraduate studies I was able to take two courses from the architecture major. We learned a lot about design, cultivated attention to the built environment. My professors emphasized imagining things as they
could be, if only we had the fortitude and verve to bring those things we sensed with our imagination into being. I loved it.
One of my favorite parts of those classes was creating "section drawings" of imagined spaces. As Frank Ching writes in his hallowed reference text
Architectural Graphics, "A section is an orthographic projection of an object as it would appear if cut through by an intersecting plane. It opens up the object to reveal its internal material, composition, or assembly."