This book documents explorations in contemporary architectural drawing, taking as its basis a series of symposia between a cohort of architects, critics and curators, who discussed drawing practices and production in relation to their own work and research. The book includes a selection of exquisite key drawings by the various contributors, as well as edited transcripts of their conversations around drawing which developed across the meetings. Participants include Laura Allen, Bryan Cantley, Peter Cook, Nat Chard, Mark Dorrian, Riet Eeckhout, Adrian Hawker, Perry Kulper, CJ Lim, Shaun Murray, Mark Smout, Neil Spiller, Nada Subotincic, Michael Webb, Mark West and Michael Young. The volume includes a collection of short keyword texts by the architects, together with contextual essays by Nat Chard, Mark Dorrian, Riet Eeckhout, Thomas-Bernard Kenniff and Carole Lévesque, and Michael Young.

Mark Dorrian is a Professor and Forbes Chair in Architecture at the Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, The University of Edinburgh, UK Arnaud Hendrickx is an architect, an Associate Professor in Architecture at KU Leuven and an Adjunct Professor at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. Riet Eeckhout is an architect and a post-doctoral researcher at KU Leuven University, Belgium

Introduction. 'Dialogical Entanglement: Conversation as Close Encounter' by Riet Eeckhout. 'Talking Drawing' by Mark Dorrian. 1: Drawing as Material Practice: Michael Webb; Peter Cook; Neil Spiller; Smout Allen; 'Mediating Drawing Practice: Curatorial Reflections on Encounter and Dialogue' by Thomas-Bernard Kenniff and Carole Levesque. 2: Methods and Modes of Working: CJ Lim; Shaun Murray; Riet Eeckhout. 'Inquisitive Drawings' by Nat Chard. 3: The Agency of Drawing: Bryan Cantley; Perry Kulper; Natalija Subotincic. 'Spectral Mediums' by Michael Young. 4: The Limit Conditions of Drawing and Other Disciplinary Considerations: Michael Young; Mark West; Mark Dorrian and Adrian Hawker (Metis); Nat Chard.