1st Edition
From Models to Drawings Imagination and Representation in Architecture
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.
General Introduction:
Models & Drawings: The Invisible Nature of Architecture
Marco Frascari
Part 1: Historical Perspectives
Introduction
1. Alberto Pérez-Gómez
Questions of Representation: The Poetic Origin of Architecture
2. Marco Frascari
On Paper: The Materiality of Architectural Drawings
3. Nader El-Bizri
Imagination and Architectural Representation
4. Raymond Quek
Drawing Adam’s Navel: The Problem of Disegno as Creative Tension Between the Visible and Knowledgeable.
5. Paul Emmons
Drawn to Scale: The Imaginative Inhabitation of Architectural Drawings
6. Qi Zhu
The Cultural Context of Design and the Corporeal Dynamism of Drawing as the Foundations for the Imagination of Construction
7. Federica Goffi
Architecture’s Twinned Body: Building and Drawing.
8. Teresa Stoppani
Translucent and Fluid: Piranesi’s Impossible Plan
9. Nicholas Temple and Soumyen Bandyopadhyay
Contemplating the Unfinished
10. Antony Moulis
Le Corbusier’s Spirals
Part 2: Emergent Realities
Introduction
11. Richard Coyne
Forms in the Dark: Nature, Waste and Digital Imitation
12. Donald Kunze
Concealment, Delay, and Topology in the Creation of Wondrous Drawing
13. Mathanraj Ratinam
A Digital Renaissance: Reconnecting Architectural Representation and Cinematic Visual Effects
14. David Gissen
Drawing Air: The Visual Culture of Bio-political Imaging
15. Christina Malathouni
'Higher' Being and 'Higher' Drawing: Claude Bragdon's 'Fourth Dimension' and the Use of Computer Technology in Design
Part 3: Critical Dimensions
Introduction
16. Jane Rendell
Seeing Time/Writing Place
17. Judith Mottram
Marks in Space: thinking about drawing
18. Catherine Hamel
Drawing Lines of Confrontation
19. Jonathan Hill
Weather Architecture, Weather Drawing
20. Sam Ridgeway
Drawing on Light
21. Bradley Starkey
Post Secular Architecture: Material, Intellectual, Spiritual Models
22. Katie Lloyd Thomas
Specifying Materials: Language, Matter and the Conspiracy of Muteness
23. Betty Nigianni
Architecture as Image-Space-Text
24. Peg Rawes
Acts of Imagination and Reflection in Architectural Design
25. Katja Grillner
In the Corner of Perception – Spatial Experience in Distraction
Biography
Marco Frascari is Director of the School of Architecture, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.
Jonathan Hale is Associate Professor in Architecture and Course Director for the interdisciplinary MA in Architecture and Critical Theory at the University of Nottingham, UK.
Bradley Starkey is a Lecturer in the School of the Built Environment at the University of Nottingham, UK.