What and Why Architects Draw?  

  建筑师画什么？为何要画？ 

SEU/IDS Advanced Architectural Design Theory（Spring 2023）

东南大学建筑学院/建筑国际化示范学院

研究生课程“建筑设计理论前沿”（2023年春季学期）

Instructor: Prof. David Leatherbarrow

Coordinator: Prof. SHI Yonggao

Teaching Assistant: LI Mai

Venue: Asian Architectural Archive Center (Sipailou Campus of SEU)

Time: Monday, Tuesday, Friday, 7pm-9pm (the first lecture is scheduled at 8:30-10:30 am)

主讲：戴维·莱瑟巴罗教授

协调人：史永高 教授

助教：李劢 博士生

上课地点：亚洲建筑档案中心（东南大学四牌楼校区）

上课时间：周一、周二、周五晚7-9点（第一讲定为早8:30-10:30）

  Course Description | 课程描述 

This course will address a fundamental topic in architectural theory, the subject matter of the architect’s proper work, making images of buildings that do not yet exist. Part of our concern will be the types of images: drawings, models, simulations, and so on. But we will be equally concerned with the ways these images come into being: habits, skills, and experiments on the one hand, and mental images, abstractions, and references on the other. Naturally, we will study the work of architects, drawn and built, but also of others from whom architects have learned, painters, engineers, map makers, and so on.Although we will primarily consider figures from the 20th and 21st centuries, examples from antiquity and the renaissance period will also occupy our attention.  In a time when some architects have announced the end of drawing, in the light of newer methods of representing ideas, and others plead for its preservation, it seems wise and timely to reconsider what and why architects draw.

本课程将探讨建筑理论中的一个基本议题，也是建筑师工作的主要内容——为那些尚不存在的建筑去构想和绘制图像。我们会关注图像的类型：纸上绘图、实体模型以及虚拟建模等；同时也会关注这些图像的形成方式：一方面是有关绘图的习惯、技法、实验等具体行为，另一方面也要探究诸如心理意象、抽象图解以及历史参照等认知路径。为此，我们当然会研究建筑师们的作品——不仅是绘制还将被建造，同时我们也会研究画家、工程师、制图师的作品——因为往往是从这些作品中，建筑师深受启迪，获益良多。我们会重点关注20和21世纪的人物，但同时也会涉及古代和文艺复兴时期的人物与案例。在意图表达手段新招层出的今天，一些建筑师宣告了绘图的消亡，另一些则恰恰为此而呼吁绘图的留存。此时，重新思考建筑师为何绘图，以及究竟要绘制什么，或许是一个明智而及时的决定。

  Schedule | 日程安排 

  Instructor | 主讲教师 

Professor David Leatherbarrow is a scholar and professor in the theory and history of architecture, with specific emphasis on their contribution to architectural design. He teaches in the Internationalization Demonstration School of Architecture, Southeast University. Since 1984 he has also been teaching at the University of Pennsylvania. Within history, theory, and design, he is known internationally for his contributions to ideas and historical developments of architectural design, gardens and landscapes, and, most recently, on the impact of contemporary technology on architecture. All of David Leatherbarrow’s work in scholarship examines two essential problems or topics in architectural design: the architectural site (landscape or urban) and architectural construction. These two topics are unavoidably commonplace in contemporary design practice. They are also in need of reconsideration, in light of changes in contemporary culture and society. To date David Leatherbarrow has published 12 scholarly books and over one hundred and twenty scholarly articles. In addition to his scholarship, Leatherbarrow is highly respected internationally as an educator, having won numerous awards for his teaching, the most recent of which is the 2020 Topaz Medallion awarded by AIA/ACSA, the highest honor given to an educator in architecture.莱瑟巴罗教授是世界著名的建筑历史与理论家，他的历史与理论研究尤为强调它们对设计的贡献。莱瑟巴罗教授现任教于东南大学建筑国际化示范学院，自1984年起也在宾夕法尼亚大学任教。在历史、理论、设计领域，他的学术声誉源自他在建筑设计、园林与景观的观念与历史发展方面做出的贡献，以及近年来他在当代技术进展对建筑学影响方面的研究。他的所有著作都集中探讨建筑学科的两个基本问题：建筑场所（景观或城市）和建筑建造。它们既是建筑实践中的两个基本问题，也是今天需要予以关注并重新思考的重要领域。迄今莱瑟巴罗教授共出版了12部学术著作和120多篇学术文章。在学术研究以外，莱瑟巴罗教授还是国际知名的教育家，曾获多个教育奖项，最近的奖项包括全美建筑教育最高奖“2020年度黄玉奖章”。