It Wasn't Design — It Was Expression

Architectural Representation II, 2023

Instructor: Mahmoud Ghorbani

Teaching Assistant: Behrooz Bajoghli

Student: Hasti Abbasi

Some things just come naturally. This course was like that for me.

They told us to drop the ruler, draw without precision, not to fear the blank page.

Honestly, I didn’t need much convincing — it already felt like the way I worked. Almost without noticing, I slipped right into the flow.

We walked through Isfahan with sketchbooks and cameras. Turned corners into compositions, textures into collages, and built stories out of what we saw. We even made a short film; Tohidkhaneh.

And that final sheet? Two meters wide, drawn by 23 students over one week. It felt like one continuous line, One uninterrupted flow.

This post is just a trace of that process: sketches, images, frames from the film. A part of what design felt like to me back then.

Film

Sketches

Photos