Jonathan Qian Jiang’s Scroll Park Drawing Through Three Ages has been selected for the Architecture+Women.NZ Tātuhi Drawing Architecture: Sarah Treadwell Archive for 2024. The 780x320mm work is from Jiang’s thesis ‘Matterless Matter. An architecture built for children and their ghost friends’.

The annual selection for the drawing prize is made by Sarah Treadwell along with her co-selectors Marian Macken, Ashleigh Smith, Simon Twose, Sharon Jansen, Karamia Müller and Lynda Simmons. The 2024 addition to the online archive contributes to the slowly building body of drawings, which is a record of selected approaches to drawing and architecture, each entry particular to its time.

The selectors commented that the spatial syntax of the document itself is deeply considered, where the idea of a (traditional Chinese) scroll book is investigated through a three-dimensional drawing. The unravelling layers reveal an accumulation of images, some just passed and some as possibilities for what is to come, and with the ability to be read from both directions. Closer viewing shows the way in which each individual page reveals smaller images (or ‘ghosts’) hidden within the scroll. This drawing implies active interaction, in a year when three-dimensional architectural drawings are clearly of interest.

For more information about the archive and to view previous annual selections, click here.