Collaborator: Ellen Yi-Luen Do

The article discusses the use of freehand diagrams in architectural design. It examines the roles of diagrams in various contexts: pedagogical books, design studies, designers’ introspective accounts and empirical studies of drawing in design. It offers several examples of thinking with diagrams in design and concludes with a discussion of the requirements for computational support for the diagrams in design thinking.

2009 Thinking with Diagrams in Architectural Design, Do EY-L, Gross MD, in special student edition of “The Diagram,” Architectural Review, p 50-54, printed by the Concrete Centre [pdf]

2001 Thinking with Diagrams in Architectural Design, Do, E. Y-L and M.D. Gross, in Artificial Intelligence Review 15:135-149. [pdf]