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In-Between: Architectural Drawing and Imaginative Knowledge in Islamic and Western Traditions (Paperback)
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In-Between: Architectural Drawing and Imaginative Knowledge in Islamic and Western Traditions (Paperback)
Series: Ashgate Studies in Architecture
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Contemporary technical architectural drawings, in establishing a
direct relationship between the drawing and its object, tend to
privilege the visible physical world at the expense of the
invisible intangible ideas and concepts, including that of the
designer's imagination. As a result, drawing may become a
utilitarian tool for documentation, devoid of any meaningful value
in terms of a kind of knowledge that could potentially link the
visible and invisible. This book argues that design drawings should
be recognized as intermediaries, mediating between the world of
ideas and the world of things, spanning the intangible and
tangible. The notion of the 'Imaginal' as an intermediary between
the invisible and visible is discussed, showing how architectural
drawings lend themselves to this notion by performing as creative
agents contributing not only to the physical world but also
penetrating the realm of concepts. The book argues that this
'in-between' quality to architectural drawing is essential and that
it is critical to perceive drawings as subtle bodies that hold
physical attributes (for example, form, proportion, color), highly
evocative, yet with no matter. Focusing on Islamic geometric
architectural drawings, both historical and contemporary, it draws
on key philosophical and conceptual notions of imagination from the
Islamic tradition as these relate to the creative act. In doing so,
this book not only makes important insights into the design process
and act of architectural representation, but more broadly it adds
to debates on philosophies of the imagination, linking both Western
and Islamic traditions.
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