In the making of New Babylon the drawings remain of secondary importance throughout the project. To understand this, we have to look at the nature of the drawing. A drawing remains always on the edge of the imaginary. Instead, Constant produces the structure that makes the desire possible. Constant does not make real architectural drawings, but something which looks closely like one.
Drawings show the structures that make the life possible in the project.
To understand the context of Constant Lambert reflects on the Calvinistic Dutch society between the two World Wars and the, as he describes it, equally narrow-minded atmosphere of De Stijl. Constant was amazed and at the same time repulsed with Mondriaan's first large exhibition after the WW2. The events of the Second World War influenced Constant very much - which afterwards resulted in a continual appearance of wars as a theme in his work. Also, it gave him a strong believe in the positive approach and vision as was shown by the communists - but he rejected their methods. To Constant the factor of play and creativity is a very fundamental part of life, therefore also of painting and of art.