This catalog of an exhibition of two architects from two generations illustrates and examines the role of hand drawing in the digital age. Drawn from more than 100 sketch books used almost daily and especially during travel, the exhibition considers the tradition of drawing as both a recording device and as a tool for thinking about design. Errol Barron and Jacob Brillhart, who both teach drawing and design in their respective institutions, the University of Miami and Tulane University , believe that drawings done digitally and by hand are not mutually exclusive activities but deeply complementary ones. The joint exhibition of how observation influences design will be comprised of over 50 sketchbooks associated paintings and design drawings that explore the interrelationships of drawing, painting, and architecture.

This book is a compendium of work done in a small architectural office. It can be seen as my First Two Chapters on Architecture. The two chapters show Small Buildings and Drawing on the Road. As an organizational tool, this book acts as a clarifying scaffold, a filter for illuminating an intense ongoing dialogue, and struggle, between architecture and drawing with and without the computer. The book simply asks: What am I trying to do? And am I doing it as clearly as possible? By publishing the work, it gains increasing clarity, understanding, and perhaps, with time - some kind of deeper meaning.

I see these first projects, built works, drawings, paintings, essays, and travelogues as an attempt to define a gentle manifesto with a kind of quiet apercu.

This Book is a compilation of student work at the University of Miami School of Architecture from 2004 -2008. This text explores all work completed in both freehand drawing seminars and design studios.