Conventions of architectural drawing
Subtitle: representation and misrepresentation
By: edited by James S. Ackerman and Wolfgang Jung.
Contributors: Ackerman, James S.; Jung, Wolfgang.
Publisher: s.n.]
Published: 2000
Place of publication: [United States
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
Subjects: Architectural drawing.
Notes: Includes bibliographical refererences.
"This book is based on research done in a seminar on conventions of architectural drawings offered by the editors at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design in 1997"--Foreword.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the conventions and rhetoric of architectural drawing / James S. Ackerman; title: Diagrams and the Villa Rotonda / Samuel Lasky; title: The pressures of paradox : Michelangelo and the Sforza Chapel / Brian Bell; title: Tilting volutes, bending cornices and perplexing angles and planes, or how Borromini might have given architecture over to the "anarchy of imagination" / Wolfgang Jung; title: Drawings as social practice : ideal town plans of nineteenth century London / Karin Tehve; title: Theo van Doesburg and the undescriptive qualities of the axonometric / Alan Christ; title: El Lissitzky's four composite drawings of the abstract gallery, Hannover Museum, 1926-1927 / Ann Bergren; title: Representing the Almost nothing : the drawings of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe / Sze Tsung Leong; title: An interview with Hani Rashid / Walker McKinley; title: Where does architecture live? Presentation, representation and the represented in the work of asymptote / Walker McKinley.