Title & Author:

Drawings that count : the work of Diploma 15 / edited by Francesca Hughes.

Publication:

London : AA Publications, [2013]
©2013

Description:

192 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Series:

AA agendas ; 12

Notes:
"The drawings in this volume were produced by the students of [Architectural Association] Diploma Unit 15 between 2004 and 2010"--Introduction, page 19.
Includes reproductions of drawings by students in the Architectural Association's Diploma Unit 15.
Includes bibliographical references.
Preface / Brett Steele -- Introduction / Francesca Hughes -- Context is / Francesca Hughes -- Hypercontext -- One potato, two ... -- Histories in the making / Noam Andrews -- The big drawing, or how big is the table? -- Mary Beard and Francesca Hughes in conversation -- By the time it takes to count -- And the word become technology / David Edgerton -- Figuration and its discontents -- Student projects.

Summary:

This collection of 60 large drawings produced over five years by AA Diploma 15 addresses the construction of context by architecture for its own very particular purposes.No architectural category is more fickle or more artificial than 'context'. A self-declared 'render-free zone', the unit's interrogations of architecture's seminal sites (antiquity, technology, the future and its proxies) examine the role of figuration and the exclusion of indeterminacy in the always already mediated question of context. Through the quiet business of counting, these line drawings - against the double ascendancy of parametricisation and the glossy rendered perspective - question architecture's ambivalent relations to the artifice it installs between itself and the outside world.

ISBN:

9781907896262 (paperback)
1907896260 (paperback)

Subject:

Architectural drawing England London 21st century.
Architectural design England London 21st century.
Context effects (Psychology)
Dessin d'architecture Angleterre Londres 21e siècle.
Design architectural Angleterre Londres 21e siècle.
Effets de contexte (Psychologie)
Architectural design.
Architectural drawing.
England London.

Added entries:

Hughes, Francesca, editor.
Hughes, Francesca editor.
Architectural Association (Great Britain), issuing body.
Architectural Association (Great Britain)
AA agendas ; no. 12.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 282951
Call No.: BIB 220873
Status: Available