Notations

Notations is a collection of eight individual books that together form a folio of drawings, notes, collages, photographs and appropriated images taken from the notebooks of architects who use them as both reflective and reflexive forms of thinking in their practice and daily life. It includes work by Tom dePaor, Michael Doherty, Grafton Architects, Seamus Lennon, McCullough Mulvin, O'Donnell + Tuomey and Nigel Peake.
This publication is based on the principle that the notebooks offer unique insight into personal worlds of drawing and notation, which in themselves speak more directly of intuitive intentions, thoughts, dreams, maps and observations than might any explanatory or curatorial text. Words appear, but these can also be interpreted as a form of drawing.


In shaping this collection the material is presented as open notations which can be experienced and observed as directly as they were drawn and made: unselfconscious curiosity as a means of thinking about and drawing the world.