1. The recollection or remembrance of the past; reminiscence. 2. Platonism. Recollection of the Ideas, which the soul had known in a previous existence, esp. by means of reasoning.
Drawing is a muscle that needs to be exercised to remain in shape, and mine had surely atrophied by the time I was ten or so years out of graduate school. The sad truth is that drawing by hand has all but disappeared from commercial, and even residential design. A tragedy: the connection between mind and paper through the hand is stronger than a mouse or keyboard can ever match.
At that time I was attending the mandatory weekly staffing meeting typical of large architectural firms, which provided the perfect opportunity for exercise. With nothing but three hours of mental inactivity, a stack of otherwise useless spreadsheets and notes, memory, and a pen, I strengthened the shrunken muscle. After a few weeks I may have been the only one who looked forward to the meeting.
Although I am as tied to the computer as anyone (and actually love building computer models) hand-drawing is still an integral design of my process. Intelligence in design can never be artificial.
Few of these drawings are of “real” places but I hope they all depict a reality with which you are familiar.