| Description |
320 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction : diagrams -- Introduction : Histories and theories of the diagrams of architecture / Mark Garcia -- Part I : Histories and theories of the diagrams of architecture. Part I : Diagrams -- Diagrams of diagrams : architectural abstraction and modern representation / Anthony Vidler -- Scientific management and the birth of the functional diagram / Hyungmin Pai -- Urban diagrams and urban modelling / David Grahame Shane -- Dummy text, or the diagrammatic basis of contemporary architecture / Robert E Somol -- Diagram : an original scene of writing / Peter Eisenman -- Poetics of the ideogram / Leon van Schaik -- Diagrams in multisensory and phenomenological architecture / Joy Monice Malnar and Frank Vodvarka -- The hammer and the song / Sandford Kwinter -- Part II : multidisciplinary dimensions of the diagrams of architecture. Part II : Diagrams -- Diagramming the interior / Mark Taylor -- Diagrams in landscape architecture / Jacky Bowring and Simon Swaffield -- Inhabiting the forest of symbols : from diagramming the city to the city as diagram / Brian McGrath -- Diagrams and their future in urban design / Peter A Hall -- Diagrams in structural engineering : applied diagrams, engineering precision / Hanif Kara -- Spatial notation and the magical operations of collage in the post-digital age / Neil Spiller -- Part III : Architects of the diagrams of architecture. Part III : Diagrams -- The diagrams of Bernard Tschumi / Bernard Tschumi (Bernard Tschumi Architects) interviewed by Mark Garcia -- The diagrams and the becoming unmotivated of the sign / Peter Eisenman (Eisenman Architects) -- Expressive abstractions : the diagrams of Will Alsop / Will Alsop interviewed by Mark Garcia -- Diagrams / Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos (UNStudio) -- Diagramming the contemporary : OMA's little helper in the quest for the new / Wouter Deen and Udo Garritzmann (OMA) -- Between ideas and matters : icons, indexes, diagrams, drawings and graphs / Alejandro Zaera-Polo (Foreign Office Architects) -- Metacity/Datatown / Winy Maas (MVRDV) -- Atlas of novel tectonics / Jesse Reiser and Nanako Umemoto (Reiser + Umemoto) -- Parametric diagrams / Patrik Schumacher (Zaha Hadid Architects) -- NOX diagrams / Lars Spuybroek (NOX) -- Part IV : Epilogues. Part IV : Diagrams -- Architectural evolution : the pulsations of time / Charles Jencks -- Epilogue (A beginning of other diagrams of architecture and the futures of the diagrams of architecture) / Mark Garcia -- Select bibliography -- Index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Architectural drawing.
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Architecture -- Charts, diagrams, etc.
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| Genre/Form |
Graphs.
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| Author |
Garcia, Mark.
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| ISBN |
9780470519448 (hbk.) |
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0470519444 (hbk.) |
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9780470519455 (paperback) |
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0470519452 (paperback) |
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