architecture, technique and representation Allen, Stan creator Agrest, Diana. text bibliography ne 2009 monographic eng spa

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255 p. ill. 23 cm. 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. 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 essays [by] Stan Allen Include Index. Architecture Representation Philosophy NA2500 A454 2008 c.1 9780415776257 (pbk.) pucpr 102010 20201105154717.0 eng