Architectural drawings are laden with responsibility. They have legal and contractual status, an instructional function, order the act of construction, and direct the labor involved in the building's construction: drawings have a purpose in the world that exceeds their own limits. What happens when a drawing is freed from these responsibilities? What idea of architecture might emerge from drawings that can speak other languages? What might architecture become if it were free to experiment by addressing other concerns?

The series of drawings by fala presented in the book seems to ask exactly that. Drawings made after the fact. Post-construction, they free themselves from the external responsibility of having to persuade or instruct; they have no duty to convince about anything that might exist beyond themselves. This is the reversal of the traditional linear sketch-drawing-building process. Here, the building serves as a preliminary sketch to the drawing. The introductory text is by Sam Jacob.

Fala Atelier

Libria, 2022

21 X 12 cm, 160 pages