In-Between: Architectural Drawing and Imaginative Knowledge in Islamic and Western Traditions

ISBN-13: 9781138572379 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 256 str.

Hooman Koliji

Opis

This book argues that design drawings should be recognised as intermediaries, mediating between the world of ideas and the world of things, spanning the intangible and tangible. The book argues that this ’in-between’ quality to architectural drawing is essential and that it is critical to perceive drawings as subtle bodies that hold physical attributes (e.g. form, proportion, colour), highly evocative, yet with no matter. Focusing on Islamic geometric architectural drawings, both historical and contemporary, it draws on key philosophical and conceptual notions of imagination from the Islamic tradition as these relate to the creative act. It also adds to debates on philosophies of the imagination, linking both Western and Islamic traditions.

Recenzje

’Enquiring into the nature of the creative imagination, this book provides a clear alternative to the well-worn dualistic struggle between rationality and subjective aesthetics. Koliji makes a valuable contribution to the historical study of Islamic architecture, and further reveals an innovative way of approaching artworks through the viewpoint of the designer’s imagination that has broad relevance to anyone interested in understanding the process of invention.’ Paul Emmons, Virginia Tech, USA ’This book reinforces the novel directions in research that transcend the gaps in historical sources on art and architecture in the pre-modern Muslim milieu by engagingly intersecting the pathways of architectural humanities with Islamic studies in mainstream theory and discourse.’ Nader El-Bizri, American University of Beirut, Lebanon

Spis treści

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O autorze

Hooman Koliji, University of Maryland, USA.