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From invariance to difference: architectural drawing in the digital age between structuralism and post-structuralism

Radical changes in architectural thinking resulted in shifting the role of
 drawing in the architectural design process. This paper examines the act of
 reading the architectural drawing in contemporary design practice. Focusing
 on the field of humanities, this paper aims to define different perspectives
 of understanding and interpreting the work of drawing. Various positions of
 contemporary architectural drawing can be traced by following two parallel
 lines of development, whose theoretical settings are still important and
 relevant in the present-day. These pathways share their common ground in
 Ferdinand de Saussure?s setting of linguistic theory from the late
 nineteenth century. Architects engaged in the academic work, as well as
 practitioners, showed great interest for philosophy and new philosophical
 practices, which later contributed in re-examining the architectural
 discipline and establishing a new theoretical framework. In the 1960s, due
 to a change in the architectural paradigm caused by the current
 anthropocentrism and the breakthrough of the humanities into the
 architectural discipline, architecture articulated its own trends, building
 on the premises of French philosophers. The rising interest for philosophers
 who based their doctrines on the development of linguistic theory generated
 two overriding methodological directions - structuralism, with a focus on
 the idea of establishing universal internal structures as cultural
 foundations, and poststructuralism - as its critique, which shifts focus to
 radical articulation of the specificity of individual elements. Considering
 the terms invariance and difference as the basic concepts, the subject of
 analysis of this paper is an architectural drawing which in the contemporary
 architectural education as the most meritorious field of research in
 architectural design, occupies different forms and enjoys manifold
 interpretations in different contexts.