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Architectural drawing is a representation of an object that is yet to be realized. It is a medium from an idea to a tangible object, which means an idea has to be somehow drawn before it is built. In this way, an architectural drawing dictates what the building is going to be like. Functionalist tradition of Modern Architecture suggested rationality, technological advanced and perfectly functional system that is based entirely on the carefully quantified needs and requirements of its users. It sought to present itself as the perfect model of the human experience. Thus, the drawing that it used to represent itself ought to be able to accentuate this perfectly image of Modern Architecture, which has in turn had an impact on the final form of the building it produced. Modernist, like Le Corbusier, proposed the idea, “form follow function”, which means the functionability of a building should be the foremost consideration before the form. During the period, axonometric and isometric projections drawings were preferred because they represent practicality and functionability of a building much better than perspectical drawings. Due to the reason that axonometric and isometric projections drawing are easier to generate straight lines instead of curve lines, Modern architectural form has therefore always ended up as cubic or orthogonal in nature.
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