WRITING-DRAWING An Entangled Archival Practice

This article is based on a 2016 talk I gave to drawing research group led by Lesley McFadyen, Huda Tayob and Sophie Read. In it look back at my PhD completed in 2013, with view trying disentangle complicated relationship as practice of architectural research. Working through what might not be, propose that, hand writing, writing-drawing forms an entangled mode doing history theory that draws out something more, or other, than each can do alone.* The particularly developed the context historical building where archival material architect’s intent, evidence uses once was built, are missing. argue two things: firstly, itself be read original archive, series Lacanian part-objects; secondly, creates further »living archive« contributed over time.† reflects roles writing whilst incorporating thinking recent research, chiefly drawn from ethnography, sociology, literary studies, situated feminist autotheory writing.