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Author:   Marco Frascari ,  Jonathan Hale ,  Bradley Starkey
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.740kg
ISBN:  

9780415431132

ISBN 10:   0415431131
Pages:   308
Publication Date:   30 October 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction Part 1: Historical Perspectives Introduction 1. Questions of Representation: The Poetic Origin of Architecture 2. On Paper: The Materiality of Architectural Drawings 3. Imagination and Architectural Representation 4. Drawing Adam’s Navel: The Problem of Disegno as Creative Tension Between the Visible and Knowledgeable 5. Drawn to Scale: The Imaginative Inhabitation of Architectural Drawings 6. The Cultural Context of Design and the Corporeal Dynamism of Drawing as the Foundations for the Imagination of Construction 7. Architecture’s Twinned Body: Building and Drawing 8. Translucent and Fluid: Piranesi’s Impossible Plan 9. Contemplating the Unfinished 10. Le Corbusier’s Spirals Part 2: Emergent Realities Introduction 11. Forms in the Dark: Nature, Waste and Digital Imitation 12. Concealment, Delay, and Topology in the Creation of Wondrous Drawing 13. A Digital Renaissance: Reconnecting Architectural Representation and Cinematic Visual Effects 14. Drawing Air: The Visual Culture of Bio-political Imaging 15. 'Higher' Being and 'Higher' Drawing: Claude Bragdon's 'Fourth Dimension' and the Use of Computer Technology in Design Part 3: Critical Dimensions Introduction 16. Seeing Time/Writing Place 17. Marks in Space: Thinking About Drawing 18. Drawing Lines of Confrontation 19. Weather Architecture, Weather Drawing 20. Drawing on Light 21. Post Secular Architecture: Material, Intellectual, Spiritual Models 22. Specifying Materials: Language, Matter and the Conspiracy of Mutenes 23. Architecture as Image-Space-Text 24. Acts of Imagination and Reflection in Architectural Design 25. In the Corner of Perception – Spatial Experience in Distraction

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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.

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