Drawing

Architecture still relies on the Reinessance idea that if you can draw, you can create the world - buildings, paintings, machines, a few century after industrial objects - and thus you are like god. The free masons symbolism of square and compass and the famous painting of the creation where god is represented as an architect is based on this idea. A corollary to the idea is that the architect - not the painter nor the sculptor, that create only images of the world - is like god. The idea is still among us: if you are acquainted with architects you certainly had the feeling that they believe to be able to do everything - to be omni-potent. But science, that rised at the end of the Reinessance - has told us that the structure of the world - and therefore the ability to modify it or even create things - is based on certain mathematical relationships among the parts - in some way Pythagorean conceptions are at the base of our modern vision of the world, and it is no case that Kepler was guided by Pythagorean principles in the discovery of the laws of motion of planets. Drawing as nothing to do with these mathematical relationships, although it can suggest them, and this explains why archtitect believe they can do everything but usually are able to do nothing - often not even buildings.