Questioning Through Drawing

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Students in the 2025 Vicenza Summer Program sketching (l–r): outside a greenhouse, and at the Brion Tomb (1968–78) by Venetian architect Carlo Scarpa, near Treviso, Italy.

Questioning Through Drawing: Vicenza Summer Program 2025
Exhibition 
Mon, Oct 27 – Wed, Nov 19

Gallery Talk & Reception
Wed, Oct 29, 4:45PM
Campbell Mezzanine, Level 2

Lines of connection follow observation. Relationships are determined following questioning. Questions start drawings. Drawing therefore is at the core of a designer’s work for it actively combines the processes of observation and considered positioning with the making of substantive marks. Well-founded consideration and clear position-taking are essential components in a successful design process. Without drawing, design as we know it does not happen.

— Charlie Menefee, Professor Emeritus

In a time of extraordinary ease of access to an overwhelming amount of information—in which multi-tasking has become a basic feature of the academic milieu—the Vicenza summer course offers students the possibility of focusing their attention for 5 weeks on a single, but complex task: drawing.

During this course, students develop their hand-drawing skills to observe relationships both particular to the place and those that are universal to human occupation. They record the development of prototypical constructions at the scale of the town, building, and element, to address universal conditions such as threshold, boundary, and frame. Students consider how these conditions are approached at a range of scales while studying the development of Vicenza's civic identity.

Faculty Program Directors

—Inés Martín Robles, Associate Professor, Architecture
—Luis Pancorbo, Associate Professor, Architecture