The Nelson-Sinclair Drawing Scholarship provides a rare opportunity for Master of Architecture students across Victoria to display their hand drawings as emerging architects which has taken a backseat in the industry in recent years.
Our Student Architect, Umid presented his project Kibo to Shinko – Hope and Faith for the Nelson-Sinclair Drawing Scholarship, which was selected to be displayed at the Melbourne City Library.
Kibo to Shinko sets the scene of architecture’s purpose in the aftermath of the 2011 Tsunami that raged Kesennuma, Japan. Umid’s drawings became a process of realisation that architecture was only a temporary physical medium that embodies the permanent spirit of the community – their resilience, and drawings had the potential to bridge spirit to physicality in rebuilding after such devastation.
His drawings host two different compositions – the primary ‘architecture’ that builds reliant to the cartesian grids uncovered, and the secondary ‘memories’ along the entropic unknown, which are collective remnants of the past ‘primary’, providing safety to the present while also a warning for what is always on the horizon.
‘In its first year, the Nelson- Sinclair Drawing Scholarship celebrates and recognises excellence in hand-drawn architectural drawing and promotes its value to the architectural profession as well as the wider public.’ – AIA Victorian Chapter
