Designing and making were often defined as very different practices, and even to the point of being very separate elements of one common subject: Architecture. 'Transgression from Drawing to Making' by Bob Sheil explains that the role of the architect has drastically changed from Pre-Renaissance Architects providing the role of having a very strong knowledge in building, a close association with the craft and gave verbal instructions to builders which ultimately honoured him the status of 'Master Builder'. But Post-Renaissance Architects sought a superior position through the comprehensive nature of drawings that projected both imaginative and material meanings, and instead the ideas themselves are presented as a drawing - the product of the architect. Then during the industrial revolution, the divisions of responsibility and specialisation established formal distinctions between the professions of building and architecture, where they had the role of creating a document of legal status and restricted content.
However, due to the modern world undergoing drastic changes in technological tools, William J Mitchell's article, 'Design Worlds and Fabrication Machines', he discusses the opportunities that lie within using CAD as a form of investment, especially when using code. The use of computers as a way to model complex buildings are part of the new instantiation processes that enable more geometric freedom for designers to explore more parameters with efficiency and accuracy. It is further enhanced by Bradley Starkey's text, 'Architectural models: Material, Intellectual, Spiritual', where the CAD technologies allowing for three-dimensional modelling reveal the notion of an observed external or original reality, where the model is a description or representation of that reality. This therefore means that the drawing should no longer be a static document, but an "evolving bank of parametric data that requires connections between independent professions working together." Especially when clients, contractors, fabricators, suppliers and architects require a medium to communicate and generate ideas, designing and making should be blended together to understand the final product so that the architectural models are easily understood by those without architectural training or experience in spatial thinking in combination with the materiality of making.
Mitchell, W. (2003). Design Worlds and Fabrication Machines. Architecture in the digital age : design and manufacturing. B. Kolarevic. New York, NY, Spon Press: 73-80.
Sheil, B. (2005). "Transgression from drawing to making." Arq : Architectural Research Quarterly 9(1): 20-32.
Starkey, B. (2005). "Architectural models: material, intellectual, spiritual." Arq : Architectural Research Quarterly 9(3-4): 265-272.
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