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For us architects, and we believe for many others, drawing has always been a means of knowing and representing the world in which we live. But inevitably, it is also a path we walk to (re)interpret and transform it. We were taught that being an architect means having a continuous desire to improve the space we inhabit… Drawing, therefore, plays a daily role in our lives. We dream, in black and white or in color, in A6, A5 notebooks, and not rarely on anything we find suitable to record our memories. Drawing indefinitely expresses the past in the present, that is, a permanent becoming that, ultimately, may turn into a reality distinct from the one from which it originated. We believe that drawing does not have to be "good" and much less that we reveal ourselves in the same way. Surely, we must respect scale, proportions, perspective… but only if we want to. As we know, "truth" can unfold in opposites. In summary, through drawing, we discover ourselves and better understand the things around us. For this reason, we cannot stop drawing, especially when we travel. We were taught that lessons are learned in travel that are never forgotten; drawing underscores them in our own way.