Main entry:

Flores, Ricardo (Architect), 1965- author.

Title & Author:

Drawing without erasing and other essays / Flores & Prats ; Moisés Puente (ed.) ; foreword by Fabrizio Gallanti.

Publication:

Köln : 2G Essays, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, [2023]
©2023

Description:

165 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans ; 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
On drawing by hand -- Drawing without erasing -- Practice, archive and the studio on 12 Trafalgar Street -- Translations -- Letters to the builder -- Second-hand -- As-found -- Inventories and clients -- Flores & Prats' bookshelf -- Drawing afternoons -- John Hejduk: house for a poet -- Pan, scroll, zoom -- Field trip to Pompeii -- Building communities -- Seven questions -- Walden 7: building a community in 1975 -- A change of scene: from academia to practice.

Summary:

"Almost all of the seventeen texts in this anthology revolve around this same topic: drawing. There are subtle variations in the inception and focus of each essay, but they can be read as a unique, continuous monologue that keeps going back to that same core idea, almost compulsively. Flores & Prats believe in the capacity of drawing by hand to generate multiple and complex strata of knowledge about a space or a place, so they use it to guide the successive steps in their design process. Their obsession on drawing is a form of optimistic resistance, founded on the belief that the tools of architectural representation, if used with intensity, rigour and passion, can still help us decipher the world that surrounds us"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9783753303901 (paperback)
3753303909

Subject:

Architectural drawing.
Mechanical drawing.
Space (Architecture)
Dessin industriel.
Espace (Architecture)
drafting.

Added entries:

Prats, Eva, author.d
Puente, Moisés, 1969- editor.
Gallanti, Fabrizio, 1969- writer of foreword.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 318427
Call No.: 318427
Copy: 1
Status: Available