From Models to Drawings: Imagination and Representation in Architecture

by Frascari; Marco

• ISBN13: 9780415487986
• ISBN10: 0415487986
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2010-11-18
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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 #xE2;#xAC;#xDC;models#xE2;#xAC;" 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 #xE2;#xAC;#x1C; 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.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Historical Perspective?

Introduction

Questions of Representation: The Poetic Origin of Architecture

On Paper: The Materiality of Architectural Drawings

Imagination and Architectural Representation

Drawing Adam's Navel: The Problem of Disegno as Creative Tension Between the Visible and Knowledgeable

Drawn to Scale: The Imaginative Inhabitation of Architectural Drawings

The Cultural Context of Design and the Corporeal Dynamism of Drawing as the Foundations for the Imagination of Construction

Architecture's Twinned Body: Building and Drawing

Translucent and Fluid: Piranesi's Impossible Plan

Contemplating the Unfinished

Le Corbusier's Spirals

Emergent Realitie?

Introduction

Forms in the Dark: Nature, Waste and Digital Imitation

Concealment, Delay, and Topology in the Creation of Wondrous Drawing

A Digital Renaissance: Reconnecting Architectural Representation and Cinematic Visual Effects

Drawing Air: The Visual Culture of Bio-political Imaging

'Higher' Being and 'Higher' Drawing: Claude Bragdon's 'Fourth Dimension' and the Use of Computer Technology in Design

Critical Dimension?

Introduction

Seeing Time/Writing Place

Marks in Space: thinking about drawing

Drawing Lines of Confrontation

Weather Architecture, Weather Drawing

Drawing on Light

Post Secular Architecture: Material, Intellectual, Spiritual Models

Specifying Materials: Language, Matter and the Conspiracy of Mutenes

Architecture as Image-Space-Text

Acts of Imagination and Reflection in Architectural Design

In the Corner of Perception Spatial Experience in Distraction

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