When architects visit a building, and want to record or identify
what they see, they take out a bundle of folded sheets in search of
a blank piece of paper. These sheets may be ground plans, diagrams,
sketches and ordnance maps. In one way or another, all are survey
drawings, operating as both documentation and analysis, enabling an
architect to examine certain conditions of the built environment,
whether geometric, relational, material or technical. This book
explores the history of the survey and its multiple forms in order
to understand how the methods of recording what already exists can
also be used to imagine what might be. Lavishly illustrated, with
works from the collection of Drawing Matter and beyond, it
addresses the multiple forms of the survey through focused studies
– on John Soane (1753–1837), Charles Robert Cockerell
(1788–1863), and Detmar Blow (1867–1939); French architects
Louis-Hippolyte Lebas (1782–1867), Henri Labrouste (1801–1875),
and Eugène Viollet-le-Duc (1814–1879); and Swiss-based Peter
Märkli (born 1953) – and an extensive section of plates with
commentaries by contemporary architects. In doing so, it maintains
that while all surveys begin with the site, the outcomes are as
idiosyncratic as their authors – and their methods have much to
offer as tools in design practice. The book is the first in the
Architecture Iconographies series, published in collaboration with
Drawing Matter, an organisation based in Wincanton, Somerset, that
explores the role of drawing in architectural thought and practice.
They consider the image-making of architecture through its
typologies and unique approaches to drawing. Exploring their
resonance in the history of the profession, as well as their
relationship to the architects themselves, the series aims to open
up further possibilities for their use in both practice and
teaching.
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