1st Edition

The Construction of Drawings and Movies Models for Architectural Design and Analysis

By Thomas Forget Copyright 2013
272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

The architectural imagery that you create is most effective when it examines your project in an abstract manner. Most students and practitioners understand linear perspective and cinema to be examples of architectural presentation tools. This book asks you to consider drawings and movies to be analytical tools that give you the capacity to engage all phases of the design process, from parti to... Read more

Preface. Introduction: Analytical and Pictorial Imagery  Part 1: Construction Logic  1. The Demystification of Linear Perspective  2. The Making of a Movie  Part 2: Matters of History  3. The Non-linear Progression of Linear Perspective  4. The Extents (and Limits) of Architecture-Cinema  Part 3: Indeterminate Projections  5. Architectural Drawings  6. Architectural Movies.  Epilogue: The Reflexivity of Architecture and Projection.  Notes and Credits.  Index

Biography

Thomas Forget is an assistant professor of architecture at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and founder of Ciotat Studio, New York.

"Combining Alberti’s theory with examples of experimental film making is a brilliant way to continue the traditions of linear perspective construction in the digital age, and to establish greater rigor and knowledge in the application of movement and time to architectural representations."

Brian McGrath, associate professor, Parsons The New School for Design, New York, USA