DRAUGHT, or, as it is pronounced, Draft, in Ar-
chitecture, the figure of an intended building described
on paper; wherein are laid down, by scale and comp-
ass, the several divisions and partitions of the apart-
ments, rooms, doors, passages, conveniences, &c, in
their due proportion.
It is usual, and exceedingly convenient, before a
building is begun to be raised, to have draughts of the
ichnography, or ground-plot of each floor or story: as
also of the form and fashion of each front, with the
windows, doors, ornaments, &c. in an orthography, or
upright. Sometimes the several fronts, &c. are taken,
and represented in the same draught, to show the effect
of the whole building: this is called a scenography, or
perspective.