sketching is not about what we see, but rather, how we see… in short to sketch is to desire. There is a reciprocity here for as the world is drawn into us – through black lines set against the whiteness of the page – so to are we drawn into the world.
To sketch is to organize desire: to form potential out of the matter that we confront; to awaken the possibilities of things unseen. It is as if we seek to form a single rudimentary word. To form a word is to take in the world as breath and cast it out as voice. In this search, the word originates. Our desire is nourished. In this sense, for the architect, to sketch is to desire: the two are inextricably joined. In every sketch that follows this honest search, the world comes into being out of its potential… a potential that exists through our searching, our sketching. And the reciprocal: our desire, our imagination, is formed through this participation with the world – a participation that takes into the hidden nature of obvious things…
At Hermes Cafe in Castiglione Fiorentinio, some of our students can be found sketching… somehow the coffee and the void within the vaults and the view over the valley and Enzo's gracious smile nourish this moment of study, of reverie…
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