Note-making, for me, is an essential act, deeply rooted in the need to understand something a little better. It is also a deeply personal act, as what makes it into my notes would be precisely what sparked my interest. I use the space available to illustrate as well as to write because these compositions later provide me a glimpse into what connections my note-making self would have been trying to capture at the time. My preferred mediums include any kind of unruled paper notebook, preferably A5, gel/fine-liner/roller-ball pens, and occasional water-colours, depending on the availability of time.
The image shared here is an excerpt from my preparatory notes for a lecture for the subject Contemporary Architecture. One of the lenses we use for better analysing architectural projects in this course, is that of “Schools of Thought” – a way to look at how one person’s practice is a reflection or not, of the people and cultures whom they considered their teachers. This approach allows an interesting pattern of converges and divergences to emerge, and one realises that no valuable idea really dies, it only gets resurrected in manifold ways over time. In this map, titled “Tracing Lineages”, I was trying to take a closer look at the practices of Charles Correa, Anant Raje & Laurie Baker. And like any map, this is also one that can acquire layers with every revisitation.
WCFA Graphic Collective 