Architects Sketches: Dialogue and Design

✍ Scribed by Kendra Schank Smith PhD in History Theory Criticism and Representation

• Publisher: Architectural Press
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 153
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

I've had this book for a couple months now. It's been living on my coffee table and I pick it up on occasion to glance through it, to try and get it. I've started the introduction several times and after the umpteenth try I finally got through it. There is good and interesting information here, but the book reads like a college textbook. You know, the kind you had to read, but didn't want to. However, I did enjoy the many illustrations, especially the Exquisite Corpse on page 67 and Leonard da Vinci's Study of Heads on page 81.

This book is still living on my coffee table and I'll be going back to it for quite awhile, because like so many of those textbooks I had so much trouble with, I really want to understand this stuff.

✦ Table of Contents

Front cover......Page 1
Architects' sketches: Dialogue and design......Page 4
Copyright page......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
List of illustrations......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 14
CHAPTER 1 Introduction and the sketch......Page 16
Architectural sketches and a comparison to dialogue......Page 17
Methodology......Page 22
The nature of sketches......Page 26
Visual perception as it pertains to architectural sketches......Page 29
How architects use sketches......Page 33
Bibliography......Page 39
CHAPTER 2 Play, quickness and Festina Lente......Page 41
Illusion and allusion......Page 42
A knowledge gained......Page 47
Play at work......Page 48
Quickness and Festina Lente......Page 50
Bibliography......Page 57
Memory......Page 58
Imagination......Page 72
Fantasy......Page 79
Bibliography......Page 85
CHAPTER 4 Caricature as a mode of transformation......Page 87
History of caricature......Page 88
Definition of caricature......Page 90
Caricature evident in architectural sketches......Page 93
Bibliography......Page 116
CHAPTER 5 The grotesque sketch......Page 118
History of the grotesque......Page 119
Grotesque sketches......Page 123
Bibliography......Page 136
CHAPTER 6 Observation/compendium and likeness......Page 138
Digital sketches......Page 142
Likeness and the marginal......Page 145
Bibliography......Page 148
D......Page 150
K......Page 151
R......Page 152
Y......Page 153