drawing as interface

For most of my life the drawing was the output. You designed the thing, then you drew it to prove it existed. Lately I've started to think the drawing is the interface: the place where the thinking actually happens, not the receipt you print afterward.

This portfolio is the argument. It's built like a notebook because that's how the work really goes: a line, a note in the margin, a fix, a better line.

When the drawing is live, when moving a slider redraws the room and the score answers back, the gap between deciding and drawing closes. That gap is where most bad buildings are born, in the lag between what you meant and what you finally documented.