Idea-building

AS SPECULATIVE ARCHITECTURAL drawings approach greater levels of abstraction, the question arises as to how (or even if) they might actually contribute to the professional practice of ‘buildable’ architecture. In this article, I reflect on this important contemporary issue by looking at one of Perry Kulper’s speculative drawings for the 2000 Central California History Museum competition (CCHMC), as well as speculative architectural drawings by postgraduates in my ‘Narrative Architecture’ master’s thesis stream at Wellington School of Architecture, Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington (VUW).