From Models to Drawings: Imagination and Representation in Architecture

ISBN-13: 9780415487986 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 294 str.

Marco Frascari;Jonathan Hale;Bradley Starkey

Opis

This edited collection addresses the vital role of the imagination in the critical interpretation of architectural representations. By challenging the contemporary tendency for computer-aided drawings to become mere ‘models’ for imitation in the construction of buildings, the articles explore the broader range of methods and meanings at stake in the creation and interpretation of architectural drawings, models, images and artefacts.

These critical – and often practice-led - investigations are placed alongside a range of historical studies considering the development of representational techniques such as perspective, orthography and diagramming. By also addressing the use of visual representation in a number of related disciplines such as visual arts, film, performance and literature, the book opens up debates in architecture to important developments in other fields.

This book is key reading for all students of architecture and architectural theory.

 

Spis treści

Introduction  Part 1: Historical Perspectives  Introduction  1. Questions of Representation: The Poetic Origin of Architecture  2. On Paper: The Materiality of Architectural Drawings  3. Imagination and Architectural Representation  4. Drawing Adam’s Navel: The Problem of Disegno as Creative Tension Between the Visible and Knowledgeable  5. Drawn to Scale: The Imaginative Inhabitation of Architectural Drawings  6. The Cultural Context of Design and the Corporeal Dynamism of Drawing as the Foundations for the Imagination of Construction  7. Architecture’s Twinned Body: Building and Drawing  8. Translucent and Fluid: Piranesi’s Impossible Plan  9. Contemplating the Unfinished  10. Le Corbusier’s Spirals  Part 2: Emergent Realities  Introduction  11. Forms in the Dark: Nature, Waste and Digital Imitation  12. Concealment, Delay, and Topology in the Creation of Wondrous Drawing  13. A Digital Renaissance: Reconnecting Architectural Representation and Cinematic Visual Effects  14. Drawing Air: The Visual Culture of Bio-political Imaging  15. 'Higher' Being and 'Higher' Drawing: Claude Bragdon's 'Fourth Dimension' and the Use of Computer Technology in Design  Part 3: Critical Dimensions  Introduction  16. Seeing Time/Writing Place  17. Marks in Space: Thinking About Drawing  18. Drawing Lines of Confrontation  19. Weather Architecture, Weather Drawing  20. Drawing on Light  21. Post Secular Architecture: Material, Intellectual, Spiritual Models  22. Specifying Materials: Language, Matter and the Conspiracy of Mutenes  23. Architecture as Image-Space-Text 24. Acts of Imagination and Reflection in Architectural Design  25. In the Corner of Perception – Spatial Experience in Distraction