Lines magazine

LINES is an irregularly published magazine on urbanism/drawing/deltas/landscapes/architecture, edited by the Van Eesteren Chair. It presents provisional and unpolished output of the Chair’s activities in research and education: raw materials and works-in-progress, to challenge and catalyze new ways of seeing, thinking and making.

The magazine can be bought at:

  • Waltman’s Technical Bookstore at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft
  • NAi booksellers at Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam

Magazines

#1 / April 2015 / The Importance of Drawing
Drawing is neither just a representation on paper of what one perceives in the outside world; nor it is merely an illustration of ideas already crystallized. For designers, drawing is an activity to explore and develop conceptions that occur in ones mind during the design process. While the computer can fulfill the task of representation still more accurately, drawing and sketching as a personal exploration during the design process remains irreplaceable. It is a means to form new ideas, to get a good grip on the site/substratum, to experiment with potential interventions and to develop its aesthetical qualities.

Contributions by: Frits Palmboom, Paul Broekhuisen, Els Bet & Ksenia Polyanina

#2 / September 2015 / Dancing Dikes
Dikes are the most determinative lines in the Dutch landscape. They made the dynamic and fluid delta landscape solidify. They tie up the interface between land and water. Dikes are like walls between water and land, but moving on a dike you get a simultaneous experience of solidity (the land), fluidity (the water) and infinity (the sky) for free. Dikes result from human activity. The oldest dikes are hand-made with spade and wheelbarrow, reacting on coarse natural circumstances directly, without any preconceived plan. Modern dikes, on the other hand, are realised plans that were conceived as drawings on paper first. For the IJsselmeerpolders - the biggest land reclamation project of the twentieth century in the Netherlands - this happened on the overwhelming big scale of an entire inner sea; where no land could be seen at the horizon. How do you start to draw lines in a world of water that is apparently empty?

Contributions by: Frits Palmboom, Joosje van Geest, Paul Broekhuisen & Kjai Tjokrokoesoemo

#3 /March 2016 / Seeing, Drawing, Flying
While learning to draw has been dropped from the official curriculum and everyone eagerly takes to the numerous new digital technologies, a lot of students signal the need to continue developing their freehand skills. Many lack the ease of doing a quick sketch, putting observations and ideas down on paper; they want to be able to absorb and process visual information without difficulty. It starts with looking - and seeing. Seeing or reading the space around us, and the way in which we relate to it, both physically and mentally. The intention to capture it in lines - to draw it - directly changes our way of looking. We have to select, we have to measure, we have to establish connections and estimate proportions. Spatial measurement requires awareness of our own body dimensions and proportions. Drawing, in turn, requires straightforward zooming in and out, miniaturising and enlarging. In the end you can even rise above yourself while drawing, and learn to fly on paper.

Contributions by: Frits Palmboom, Paul Broekhuisen, Eileen Stornebrink, Songua Huang & Marrit Terpstra

#4 / Reading by Tracing

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