Translations from Drawing to Building and Other Essays

by Robin Evans

• ISBN13: 9780262550277
• ISBN10: 026255027X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-02-01
• Publisher: Mit Pr

Summary

Introduction by Mohsen Mostafavi The late Robin Evans (1944-1993) was a highly original historian of architecture whose writings covered a wide range of concerns: society's role in the evolution and development of building types, aspects of geometry, modes of projection, military architecture, representation of all kinds. No matter what the topic, however, he always drew on firsthand experience, arriving at his insights from direct observation. This book brings together eight of Evans's most significant essays. Written over a period of twenty years, from 1970, when he graduated from the Architectural Association, to 1990, they represent the diverse interests of an agile and skeptical mind. The book includes an introduction by Mohsen Mostafavi, a chronological account of the development of Evans's writing by Robin Middleton, and a bibliography by Richard Difford.

Table of Contents

Paradoxes of the Ordinary	5	(6)
Mohsen Mostafavi
Towards Anarchitecture	11	(24)
The Rights of Retreat and the Rites of Exclusion: Notes Towards the Definition of Wall	35	(20)
Figures, Doors and Passages	55	(38)
Rookeries and Model Dwellings: English Housing Reform and the Moralities of Private Space	93	(26)
Not to be Used for Wrapping Purposes: A Review of the Exhibition of Peter Eisenman's Fin d'Ou T Hou S	119	(34)
Translations from Drawing to Building	153	(42)
The Developed Surface: An Enquiry into the Brief Life of an Eighteenth-Century Drawing Technique	195	(38)
Mies van der Rohe's Paradoxical Symmetries	233	(45)
Robin Evans: Writings	278	(10)
Robin Middleton
Bibliography	288	(5)
Richard Difford
Acknowledgements	293