'In Britain, we've always been fiddlers. That explains the survival of drawing'

摘要

London Eight sounds rather threatening, like the Gang of Four doubled up or the latest batch of terrorist suspects. But this octet are provocateurs of the immaterial; graduates and faculty of the Bartlett, selected by Peter Cook to demonstrate the endangered art of architectural drawing for an exhibition at the Southern California Institute of Architecture. It's an apt location, for SCI-Arc was founded in 1972 to challenge conventional teaching, and is currently directed by Eric Owen Moss, the enfant terrible of LA architects.