Main entry:

Lucas, Ray (Professor of architecture), author.

Title & Author:

Drawing parallels : knowledge production in axonometric, isometric and oblique drawings / Ray Lucas.

Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2019.

Description:

xiii, 203 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : parallel projections, mimesis, and intersections -- James Stirling's axonometric traps -- Modernism, scale, and gesamkunstwerk in J.J.P. Oud -- Occlusion and deliberately hidden lines : Hejduk's Wall House -- Indeterminacy and transfiguration : Hejduk's multiple projections -- Axonometry as theoretical instrument : the case of Eisenman -- Cedric Price's 'in action' drawings -- Cognition, image, and embodiment -- Conclusion: the purpose of drawing an axonometric.

Summary:

Drawing Parallels expands your understanding of the workings of architects by looking at their work from an alternative perspective. The book focuses on parallel projections such as axonometric, isometric, and oblique drawings. Ray Lucas argues that by retracing the marks made by architects, we can begin to engage more directly with their practice as it is only by redrawing the work that hidden aspects are revealed. The practice of drawing offers significantly different insights, not easily accessible through discourse analysis, critical theory, or observation. Using James Stirling, JJP Oud, Peter Eisenman, John Hejduk, and Cedric Price as case studies, Lucas highlights each architect's creative practices which he anaylses with reference to Henri Bergson's concepts of temporality and cretivity, discussing ther manner in which creative problems are explored and solved. The book also draws on a range of anthropological ideas including skilled practice and enchantment in order to explore why axonometrics are important to architecture and questions the degree to which the drawing convention influences the forms produced by architects.

ISBN:

9781472412836 hardcover
1472412834 hardcover

Subject:

Architectural design.
Projection.
Communication in architectural design Case studies.
Design architectural.
Projection (Géométrie)
Communication en design architectural Études de cas.
projections (visual works)
Communication in architectural design.

Form/genre:

Case studies.
Études de cas.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 302034
Call No.: BIB 248253
Status: Available