Title & Author:

Architecture as a craft : architecture, drawing, model and position / edited by Michiel Riedijk ; [texts by Enrique Walker and others].

Publication:

Amsterdam : SUN Architecture Publishers, 2010.

Description:

231 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
"Nur 648, 955"--Colophon.
Prologue / Michiel Riedijk -- Under constraint / Enrique Walker -- Drawing, literally / Mark Linder -- Drawings that take sides / Emre Altürk -- RE: position / Gregg Pasquarelli -- The drawing is everywhere / Jan De Vylder -- Ordo, pondo et mensura : the criteria of architecture / Oswald Mathias Ungers -- Painting, drawing, thinking : Robert Slutzky's drawings for paintings / Joan Ockman -- Architectural representation beyond visualization : Cedric Price's diagrams of social imagination / Alper Semih Alkan -- The new 'ductus' : a reflection on Manfred Mohr's drawing / Stefano Milani -- Understanding ambiguous spaces / Sou Fujimoto -- Questioning the craft : a conversation / Christoph Gantenbein, Kersten Geers and Jan De Vylder -- Questions of design / Giorgio Grassi -- The model / Michael Maltzan -- Crafting architecture : in search of the architect's project / Kersten Geers -- Epilogue / Michiel Riedijk

Summary:

The 15 essays in "Architecture as a craft" present a vision of the architectural discipline in which the essence is sought in the craft itself. The book is based on the symposium of the same name that the Delft University of Technology organised in 2009. The authors include the architects Michiel Riedijk, Sou Fujimoto and Gregg Pasquarelli. Society imposes stringent demands on the designs of architects, for example in the field of sustainability. Programmes of requirements are drawn up for this purpose that exert a strong influence on the design. The contributors to "Architecture as a craft", however, consider that it is necessary to grasp the structure of a design without these external influences playing a role. The craft of the architect is approached in this book from three perspectives: the position adopted by the architect in the design and construction process, the composition of the design, and the choice of materials of the design.

ISBN:

9789461051035
9461051034

Subject:

Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architecture, Modern.
Architecture 20e siècle.

Form/genre:

Essays

Added entries:

Riedijk, Michiel, 1964-
Walker, Enrique, 1967-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 271318
Call No.: BIB 204325
Status: Available