The diagrams of architecture / by Mark Garcia.
Material type:
TextSeries: AD readerPublication details: Chichester : John Wiley, c2010.Description: 320 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780470519455 (pbk.) :
- 0470519452 (pbk.) :
- 720.222 GAR 22
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| Standard Loan | Moylish Library Main Collection | 720.222 GAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 39002100643817 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Since the 1980s, the diagram has become a preferred method for researching, communicating, theorising and making architectural designs, ideas and projects. Thus the rise of the diagram, as opposed to the model or the drawing, is the one of the most significant new developments in the process of design in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Diagrams of Architecture is the first anthology to represent - through texts and diagrams - the histories, theories and futures of architecture through the diagram.
Spanning the Pre-historic to the Parametric, Diagrams of Architecture illustrates over 250 diagrams and brings together 26 previously published and newly commissioned essays from leading international academics, architects, theorists and professional experts. These combine to define the past and future of the diagram's discourse. Prefaced with a critical introduction by Mark Garcia, each text investigates a central concept or dimension of the diagram ranging from socio-cultural studies, science, philosophy, technology, CAD/CAM, computing and cyberspace and virtual/digital design to methodology, environment/sustainability and phenomenological, poetic and art architecture; as well as interior, urban, engineering, interactive and landscape design.
The first critical, multidisciplinary book on the history, theory and futures of the architectural diagram. Includes seminal articles on the diagram from the history and theory of architecture such as those by Peter Eisenman, Sanford Kwinter, MVRDV, Neil Spiller, Lars Spuybroek, UN Studio and Anthony Vidler. Features 16 newly commissioned articles by leading architects and theorists, including Will Alsop, Charles Jencks, Hanif Kara, Patrik Schumacher, Bernard Tschumi, Leon van Schaik and Alejandro Zaera-Polo. Includes a full-colour critical collection of over 250 of the most significant and original diagrams, many of which are previously unpublished, in the history of architecture from around the world.Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Introduction: Diagrams (p. 8)
- Introduction: Histories and Theories of the Diagrams of Architecture (p. 18)
- Part I Histories and Theories of the Diagrams of Architecture (p. 46)
- Part I Diagrams
- Diagrams of Diagrams: Architectural Abstraction and Modern Representation (p. 54)
- Scientific Management and the Birth of the Functional Diagram (p. 64)
- Urban Diagrams and Urban Modelling (p. 80)
- Dummy Text, or the Diagrammatic Basis of Contemporary Architecture (p. 88)
- Diagram: An Original Scene of Writing (p. 92)
- Poetics of the Ideogram (p. 104)
- Diagrams in Multisensory and Phenomenological Architecture (p. 112)
- The Hammer and the Song (p. 122)
- Part II Multidisciplinary Dimensions of the Diagrams of Architecture (p. 128)
- Part II Diagrams
- Diagramming the Interior (p. 134)
- Diagrams in Landscape Architecture (p. 142)
- Inhabiting the Forest of Symbols: From Diagramming the City to the City as Diagram (p. 152)
- Diagrams and their Future in Urban Design (p. 162)
- Diagrams in Structural Engineering: Applied Diagrams-Engineering Precision (p. 170)
- Spatial Notation and the Magical Operations of Collage in the Post-Digital Age (p. 178)
- Part III Architects of the Diagrams of Architecture (p. 186)
- Part III Diagrams
- The Diagrams of Bernard Tschumi (p. 194)
- The Diagram and the Becoming Unmotivated of the Sign (p. 204)
- Expressive Abstractions: The Diagrams of Will Alsop (p. 214)
- Diagrams (p. 222)
- Diagramming the Contemporary: OMA's Little Helper in the Quest for the New (p. 228)
- Between Ideas and Matters: Icons, Indexes, Diagrams, Drawings and Graphs (p. 236)
- Metacity/Datatown (p. 244)
- Atlas of Novel Tectonics (p. 250)
- Parametric Diagrams (p. 260)
- NOX Diagrams (p. 270)
- Part IV Epilogues (p. 282)
- Part IV Diagrams
- Architectural Evolution: The Pulsations of Time (p. 288)
- Epilogue: (A Beginning of other Diagrams of Architecture and the Futures of the Diagrams of Architecture) (p. 310)
- Select Bibliography (p. 317)
- Index (p. 318)