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This issue of Interstices derives largely from a symposium in honour of Marco Frascari, held at the University of Auckland in November 2009, on the occasion of his stay as Distinguished Visitor to the School of Architecture and Planning. “The Traction of Drawing” queries whether, with the proliferation and maturation of digital technologies, drawing is now really “done and dusted”. The collection of essays, drawings and reviews in this issue explores different technologies of drawings and suggests that drawing still works. However, a shift to a post-digital condition is required where, by critically re-evaluating and renegotiating the roles of various instruments and techniques, the ‘craft’ of drawing applies across all drawing practices, analogue and digital. The gap that seems to divide these approaches is artificial, and drawing maintains its central role in architectural thinking and making.
 
Refereed Papers:
Sarah Treadwell (The University of Auckland, New Zealand) – The Architecture of Steinberg’s Magnolia; Frederica Goffi (Carlton University , Canada) – Drawing Imagination and the Imagination of Drawing; Mike Linzey (The University of Auckland, New Zealand) – Architectural Drawings do not Represent; Stephen Loo (University of Tasmania, Australia) – Summoning Danae: Drawing the Parallel; Simon Twose and Jan Smitheram (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) – The Paper Life of Building: Performative intra-action; Andrew Barrie (The University of Auckland, New Zealand) – Okoshi-ezu: Speculations on thinness; Susan Hedges (Unitec, New Zealand) – Scale as the Representation of an Idea, the Dream of Architecture and the Unravelling of a Surface; Mike Davis (The University of Auckland, New Zealand) – Maintaining the Abstract Critical Faculty in Post-Digital Drawing Practice.
 
Refereed Drawings:
Luke Pearson (Bartlett School of Architecture, UK) – The Draughtsman and the Delineator; Michael J. Ostwald, Chris Tucker and Michael Chapman (University of Newcastle, Australia) – Re-tracing History: Drawing and the anti-monument; Christopher Morgan (University of Tasmania, Australia) – The Landscape of Portraits.
 
Invited Papers:
Marco Frascari (Carlton University , Canada) – Splendour and Miseries of Architectural Construction Drawings; Laurence Simmons (The University of Auckland, New Zealand) – “Drawing has always been more than drawing”: Derrida and disegno.
 
Non-Refereed Papers, Images, Reviews & Interviews
Kathy Waghorn (The University of Auckland, New Zealand) – TRANS-FORM-ers: Auckland Architecture Week, 2009; Hitoshi Abe (University of California, USA) – Hot Links, Lower 9th Ward, New Orleans; Akihisa Hirata (Akihisa Hirata Architecture Office, Japan) – Tree-ness House, Otsuka, Tokyo; Patrick Loo & Sarosh Mulla (OH.NO.SUMO, New Zealand) – Interview with Momoyo Kaijima of Atelier Bow-Wow; David Mitchell (Mitchell&Stout Architects, New Zealand) – The Group Architects by Julia Gatley (book review); Bill McKay (The University of Auckland, New Zealand) – The Villa by Jeremy Hansen, Jeremy Salmon, and Patrick

Reynolds (book review); Pip Cheshire (Cheshire Architects, New Zealand) – The Invention of New Zealand by Francis Pound (book review); Carl Douglas (AUT University, New Zealand) – Tensions (exhibition review); Carol Go-Sam (Aboriginal Environment Research Centre, University of Queensland, Australia) – Sep Yama: “Ground you cannot see” Finding Country (a primer) (exhibition review); Shelley F. Martin (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA) – Seeing in Section: The practice of photogrammatic drawing.
 
Interstices – A Journal of Architecture and Related Artsis the only established publication of its kind in Australasia and received an “A” in the Australian Research Council’s 2010 journal ranking exercise. The journal is published once a year and is supported by editorial board members Mike Austin, Uta Brandes, Karen Burns, Peggy Deamer, Michael Erlhoff, Marco Frascari, Mark Goulthorpe, Anthony Hoete, Fiona Jack, Robert Jahnke, Bechir Kenzari, Jonathan Lamb, David Leatherbarrow, Stephen Loo, Mirjana Lozanovska, John Macarthur, Jeff Malpas, Nigel Ryan, Joseph Rykwert, Laurence Simmons, Paul Walker, and Peter Wood.

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