Title & Author:

Conventions of architectural drawing : representation and misrepresentation / edited by James S. Ackerman and Wolfgang Jung.

Publication:

[United States] : [publisher not identified], ©2000.

Description:

271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
"This book is based on research done in a seminar on conventions of architectural drawings offered by the editors at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design in 1997"--Foreword.
"Checklist of architectural drawings in Harvard collections" (p. 263-271).
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction : the conventions and rhetoric of architectural drawing / James S. Ackerman -- Diagrams and the Villa Rotonda / Samuel Lasky -- The pressures of paradox : Michelangelo and the Sforza Chapel / Brian Bell -- Tilting volutes, bending cornices and perplexing angles and planes, or how Borromini might have given architecture over to the "anarchy of imagination" / Wolfgang Jung -- Drawings as social practice : ideal town plans of nineteenth century London / Karin Tehve -- Theo van Doesburg and the undescriptive qualities of the axonometric / Alan Christ -- El Lissitzky's four composite drawings of the abstract gallery, Hannover Museum, 1926-1927 / Ann Bergren -- Representing the Almost nothing : the drawings of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe / Sze Tsung Leong -- An interview with Hani Rashid / Walker McKinley -- Where does architecture live? Presentation, representation and the represented in the work of asymptote / Walker McKinley.

ISBN:

0935617507 (paperback)
9780935617504 (paperback)

Subject:

Architectural drawing.
Architecture History

Form/genre:

Checklists.

Added entries:

Ackerman, James S.
Jung, Wolfgang.
Fletcher, Margaret
Harvard University. Graduate School of Design

Holdings:

Location: Library main 222921
Call No.: NA2705 .C6 2000
Status: Available