Architects Sketches: Dialogue and Design

✍ Scribed by Kendra Schank Smith

• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 153
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Concepts from architects' minds evolve through sketches and as a mode of transference are conveyed to the finished building. This book compares qualities of sketches to reveal unique approaches to the instruments of thinking in which all architects engage. It provides new insight into the relationship between architectural sketches and the process of creative manipulation. Sketches comprise a thinking mechanism, and through the qualities of ambiguity, quickness and change, they initiate a dialogue for architects. As a medium to facilitate communication, recording, discovery and evaluation, their pertinence lies in their ability to exhibit both the precise and the imprecise. Exploring four related theoretical approaches, play, memory-imagination-fantasy, caricature and the grotesque, the book shows how imprecision stimulates imagination to conceive new forms in the dialogue of architectural sketches. * Beautifully presented work with a wealth of illustrations Uses examples from architects past and present to show the evolution of the architectural sketch Describes the use of simple sketches to convey complex abstract ideas

✦ 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