1st Edition

Ars et Ingenium: The Embodiment of Imagination in Francesco di Giorgio Martini’s Drawings

By Pari Riahi Copyright 2015
206 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge

When did drawing become an integral part of architecture? Among several architects and artists who brought about this change during the Renaissance, Francesco di Giorgio Martini’s ideas on drawing recorded in his Trattati di architettura, ingegneria e arte militare (1475-1490) are significant. Francesco suggests that drawing is linked to the architect’s imagination and central in conveying... Read more

Preamble, 1. Writing the Project of Architecture, 2. Drawing the Lines of Theory, 3. A Multifaceted Mirror, Drawing’s Different Faces, 4. Drawing as a Manifold, Ever-Shifting Spectacle, Coalescing Theory and Practice,  Postscript

Biography

Pari Riahi is a part-time faculty member at Rhode Island School of Design, where she has been teaching since 2007 in multiple capacities in the Architecture and INTAR (interior architecture and adaptive reuse) departments. She has also taught at MIT and SUNY Buffalo. Pari completed her PhD dissertation at McGill University in 2010 in history and theory of architecture. Her thesis concerned the reciprocity of architectural drawings and imagination in the work of Francesco di Giorgio Martini. Pari’s current research tracks the propagation of digital media and the effect of new technologies on architectural thinking and practice. She is a registered architect, and founded her architectural office in Massachusetts in 2011.