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Transitions: Concepts + Drawings + Buildings (Hardcover)
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Transitions: Concepts + Drawings + Buildings (Hardcover)
Series: Design Research in Architecture
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Most architectural books written by practising architects fall into
two categories: theoretical texts, or monographs that describe and
illustrate the author's projects. This book combines both, as it
explores and illustrates the methodological journey required to
translate a concept to a drawing and a drawing to a building. While
the term 'methodological' might imply an Aristotelian logic, there
is no attempt here to rationalise the process of conception, but
instead an acknowledgement of an experimental approach that
presupposes a subtle knowledge of the projects. It shows the
architect's fascination with the 'opaque' and the 'not said' and
illustrates how architecture works through agreement and
contradiction (e.g. the built and the un-built, material and
immaterial). Organised into three essays Urban Collage, Ground
Surface, Shadows and Lines, the book examines how conceptual
threads begin to compose a specific architectural design 'language'
and how they interweave from one direction to another. Importantly,
the projects that illustrate the text also demonstrate how
imperative or marginal the original ideas become and, to an extent
they demonstrate the design process: its successes, illogicality
and failures. The essays also discuss the importance of iteration
through time where ideas may occasionally be developed as a linear
process, but more often emerge through a series of creative
digressions. Although the essays and the projects have dominant
themes, these should not be regarded as autonomous, as throughout
the development of both drawings and buildings, ideas inevitably
segue from one domain to another. Ideas have both fluidity and the
ability to transform.
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