Mobility of the line
Subtitle: art, architecture, design
By: Ivana Wingham (ed.).
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Basel
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9783034608244
Subjects: Line (Art); Architectural drawing; Design; Technique; Linie; Architektur; Kunst
Description: The line is the constitutive element of every drawing and forms the core element of any design - for art, architecture, urban design or design in general. It resists reduction to simple linearity, but rather takes on complex and dynamic forms that attract the viewer in various ways, both consciously and suggestively. Whether analogue or digital, line is mobile as the forces, movements and effects that line produce are different for each type of line: straight, meandering, interrupted or even invisible. The book is a stimulating celebration of the manifold aspects of line, using unique examples from architecture, design and art, combining interviews with designers and essays by various authors.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : The line's contingencies / Ivana Wingham; title: 'Sketching' around Lineamenta / Alberto Pérez-Gómez; title: Lines from without / Diana Agrest; title: The line between drawing and painting / Gary Garrels; title: Psychoanalytic lines of thought / Mark Cousins; title: Forms of representation and architectural education / Marco Frascari; title: Urban linearity : the high line / Ricardo Scofidio; title: Lines in the expanded field / Costas Varotsos; title: Performative lines / Jeffrey P. Turko; title: When lines intersect / Jenny Lowe; title: Mediating lines / Ivana Wingham; title: Durational lines / Anthony McCall; title: In/of/through/out / Monika Grzymala; title: Ambiguous lines / Antoni Malinowski; title: Drawing colour : between the line and the field / Duncan Bullen; title: Processing lines / Casey Reas; title: Vanishing lines /Angus Leadley-Brown; title: The moving oculus / Roderick J. Lumsden; title: Lines of travel / John Andrews; title: Toeing the line / George Hardie; title: Notes on the line / Andrew Benjamin; title: Motive & Motif / Brian Hatton; title: Lines of passage : from horizon to design / Gregory Votolato; title: Material and critical lines : Piranesi's erasures / Teresa Stoppani.