This article was originally published by Metropolis Magazine as "Inside The Digital Platform Championing Post-Digital Drawing."

Depicting Spaces. Image Courtesy of Tom Grillo

This article was originally published by Metropolis Magazine as "Inside The Digital Platform Championing Post-Digital Drawing."Digital technologies were supposed to kill the drawing. And in an obvious way they did, with CAD displacing hand draughtsmanship long ago. But drawing is more than mere delineation?measured construction drawings?or even the rendering, which has devolved into a mere marketing tool. Indeed, as Sam Jacob writes, it constitutes a fundamental ?architectural act? that lies at the core of the discipline?s self-understanding.Jacob describes a new ?post-digital? mode of drawing that incorporates narrative cues, art historical allusions, and software-enabled collage techniques. It recalls Mies?s sparse one-point perspectives and de Chirico?s metaphysical paintings as well as the affected irreverence of Postmodernism. It?s a style popularized by blogs such as KoozA/rch, which was founded by architect Federica Sofia Zambeletti three years ago. We spoke to Zambeletti about the resurgence of architectural drawing and how the style could soon exhaust itself.
Mixed Realism Meets Flatness and Symbolism. Image Courtesy of Nowadays Office

Samuel Medina: What prompted you to found KooZA/rch"Federica Sofia Zambeletti: KooZA/rch was born...