Impossible Drawings

Bea Martin is a Portuguese-born British architect and Senior Lecturer at the Manchester School of Architecture, where she leads Inscriptive Practices and Future Processes. She earned her degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Lisbon, and is currently pursuing a PhD in Architecture by Design at the Bartlett School of Architecture. With over a decade of design experience in London, including work with Richard Rogers and Partners, she also founded Speculative Assemblies, an experimental design lab. Her research interrogates the role of drawing as a performative process, emphasizing its potential to construct new meanings through assemblages. By challenging conventional architectural representation, her work explores how drawings can facilitate understanding and experience of architectural space. Martin’s investigations aim to transform drawing into a methodology that transcends traditional limits, re-evaluating how architectural ideas are conceived and communicated in innovative ways.