Title & Author:

Architecture through drawing / edited by Desley Luscombe, Helen Thomas and Niall Hobhouse

Publication:

London : Lund Humphries, in association with Drawing Matter, 2019
©2019

Description:

239 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 31 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-236) and index
Prologue: seeing, and disbelieving / Naill Hobbouse -- Introduction: the dynamic metaphor / Desley Luscombe -- Auto-Affection: on Michael Webb's sin centre and the drawing of mobility / Mark Dorrian -- Playing games with the oldest book / Matthew Page -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and architecture's spatial distraction / Desley Luscombe -- Eurolandschaft derive / Peter Wilson -- The genesis of architecture (and the genetics of an architect) / Micholas Olsberg -- Inspiration, vision and the hand / Fabrizio Ballabio -- Zund-up's dragster-Rohre / Erik Wegerhoff -- 'The very grammar of the art' / Nicholas Olsberg -- Interior breakdown / Laurent Stalder -- Rose-coloured masonry / Basile Baudez -- What is not hidden is in black and white / Helen Thomas -- School of Rossi / Jesse Reiser -- Superstudio and the perspective against architecture / Markus Lahteenmaki -- A blueprint is ... blue / Neil Bingham -- James gown's section through house, with mechanical services / Charles Rice -- 'In the service of clouds': the picturesque and aquatint / John Macarthur -- 'Construir a nova E(vo)ra' / Alvaro Siza -- Hide-and-seek / Iris Moon -- Epilogue: the limits of drawing / Adrian forty and Sophie read.

Summary:

Architecture through Drawing examines how drawing -- as both action and object -- encapsulates complex ideas relating to culture, technology, space and the built environment. Bringing together an array of beautiful and rarely seen drawings dating from the sixteenth century to the present day, all representing different geographical locations, techniques, methodologies and purposes, the book defines a new field for the subject of the drawing in architecture. It reveals the motives for architectural drawing beyond the requirement to document the processes that underpin the realisation of the architectural object. This book asks, fundamentally, whether drawings can illuminate new interpretations of architectural experimentation. Examples range from initial sketches by architects to analytical and construction drawings, perspectives and schematics, collage and more complex presentations and paintings often carried out in association with others.

ISBN:

9781848223776 hardback
1848223773 hardback

Subject:

Architectural drawing.
Architectural drawing Themes, motives.

Added entries:

Luscombe, Desley, editor.
Thomas, Helen, 1964- editor.
Hobhouse, Niall, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 316668
Call No.: 316668
Copy: 1
Status: Available