Lostritto tackles the question of “what is drawing?” in an interesting way. Defining the concept of drawing by its negative is fascinating, but in many ways also reflects the influence of architecture on the writing. Whereas artists tend to focus more on evaluating if a work is good art rather than the binary understanding of “art” or “not art,” the dialogue of what built structures get to call themselves architecture continues to this day. Nikolaus Pevsner famously said
A bicycle shed is a building; Lincoln Cathedral is a piece of architecture.
Lostritto even hits upon this issue, stating
without limits, it’s easy to see how almost anything can be a drawing.
Maybe almost anything can be a drawing.