DRAUGHT, or, as it is pronounced, Draft, in Architecture, the figure of an intended building described on paper; wherein are laid down, by scale and compass, the several divisions and partitions of the apartments, 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.