Practice architecture, technique and representation txt
essays [by] Stan Allen
- 255 p. ill. 23 cm. book
- Critical voices in art, theory and culture 1025-9325. .
Include Index.
Introduction: Practice vs. Project Part 1: Drawings 1. Constructing with Lines: On Projection 2. Notations and Diagrams: Mapping the Intangible 3. Terminal Velocities: The Computer in the Design Studio Part 2: Buildings 4. Mies' Theater of Effects 5. The Guggenheim Refigured 6. Le Corbusier and Modernist Movement Part 3: Cities and Landscapes 7. Urbanisms in the Plural 8. The Thick 2-D: Mat-Building in the Contemporary City 9. From Object to Field: Field Conditions in Architecture and Urbanism
Argues that concepts in architecture are not imported from other disciplines, but emerge through the materials and procedures of architectural practice itself. This book examines the ways in which the tools available to the architect affect the design and production of buildings.