Book Launch: Bodies and Space in Architectural Drawing: Line, Movement, Scale

Bodies and Space in Architectural Drawing challenges conventional approaches to architectural representation by positioning the body as an active medium for design rather than a static reference. The book advocates for full-scale, performative drawing methods that expand architectural practice, arguing that drawings are inhabited, present, and embodied spaces that reframe how space is measured and understood.

Marian Macken and Carl Douglas, both architecture educators and researchers, explore how moving, thinking bodies generate and reside within drawings, and how scaled artefacts—models, maps, and drawings—mobilise architectural thinking. Published by Bloomsbury Publishing, this work reinstates drawing as a spatial, temporal, and bodily act central to design practice.