Architectural Thought : The Design Process and and the Expectant Eye
detailed drawings which are to test what we’re thinking. Then the second chapter is like doing pictures of what we’ve already go ...
contemporary architecture design almost always involves more than one person. Drawings become doubly important as a way of commu ...
Alberti is anxious throughout the Ten Booksto make a distinction between lineamentaandmateria.Though they are clearly related, l ...
In architecture, design and drawing are inseparable. Whether the drawing is by hand or computer is, for the moment, irrele- vant ...
rejected the whims of paper architecture – while contin- uing to draw prodigiously. There are all sorts of curious reminders as ...
and so in line with everyday design experience. Kahn makes a very similar statement: ‘The plan expresses the limits of Form.’ Fo ...
symmetry on all four axes but the servant spaces which are so visible on plan in each of the four corners, emphasising the diago ...
resort not to be crucial since the plan drawing is after all only a tool. What is important is that the way in which Kahn used t ...
with our expectation of freely disposed spaces as a hallmark of early modern architecture. Similarly if we look at the quite dif ...
We somehow feel that, just as an experienced tracker can identify an animal from its footprint, so we can judge a building’s con ...
the two. The difference between the three is of intent and execu- tion. It is the first function which is at the moment the most ...
early explorations through drawing. They differ significantly, however, since a painter’s sketches will be translated into anoth ...
Drawings issued to a builder or manufacturer, unlike sketches, need to be precise and unambiguous. This is often achieved by dra ...
The drawings we show to users and clients raise partic- ular difficulties. Mendelsohn’s bold soft pencil marks meant something t ...
a transparent acrylic model may reveal the anatomical arrange- ment of floors but say nothing about how it would feel to be insi ...
RightAlberto Sartoris, 95 Freibourg Cathedral com- petition submission, 1931 Below right Choisy, Santa Sophia, Istanbul;plate fr ...
Friedrich Schinkel of 1834 – which appeared as an etching in the Sammlung architectonischer Entwürfepublished first in serial fo ...
a structure such as the Millennium Dome in London. It would seem therefore that certain forms of innovatory architectural and en ...
98 RightMax Taut, Blossom House1921; watercolour, ink and graphite sketch ...
command over what they are designing and without the authority and the concomitant control this gives them over the making of ar ...
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