Mark Garcia

The Diagrams of Architecture

AD Reader

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The first definitive book on the diagram in architecture - an umbrella work that brings together key images and essential reading.
Publishes seminal articles on the diagram by the likes of: Le Corbusier, Peter Eisenman, Foreign Office Architects and Zaha Hadid,
Features newly commissioned articles leading architects: Ben van Berkel, Bernard Tschumi and Cecil Balmond.
Illustrated with 250-300 of the most significant architectural diagrams today
Part of the Architectural Design Primers series

---

Since the 1980s, the diagram has become a preferred method for researching, communicating, theorising and making architectural designs, ideas and projects. Thus the rise of the diagram, as opposed to the model or the drawing, is the one of the most significant new developments in the process of design in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Diagrams of Architecture is the first anthology to represent - through texts and diagrams - the histories, theories and futures of architecture through the diagram.
Spanning the Pre-historic to the Parametric, Diagrams of Architecture illustrates over 250 diagrams and brings together 26 previously published and newly commissioned essays from leading international academics, architects, theorists and professional experts. These combine to define the past and future of the diagram's discourse. Prefaced with a critical introduction by Mark Garcia, each text investigates a central concept or dimension of the diagram ranging from socio-cultural studies, science, philosophy, technology, CAD/CAM, computing and cyberspace and virtual/digital design to methodology, environment/sustainability and phenomenological, poetic and art architecture; as well as interior, urban, engineering, interactive and landscape design.
The first critical, multidisciplinary book on the history, theory and futures of the architectural diagram.
Includes seminal articles on the diagram from the history and theory of architecture such as those by Peter Eisenman, Sanford Kwinter, MVRDV, Neil Spiller, Lars Spuybroek, UN Studio and Anthony Vidler.
Features 16 newly commissioned articles by leading architects and theorists, including Will Alsop, Charles Jencks, Hanif Kara, Patrik Schumacher, Bernard Tschumi, Leon van Schaik and Alejandro Zaera-Polo.
Includes a full-colour critical collection of over 250 of the most significant and original diagrams, many of which are previously unpublished, in the history of architecture from around the world. Since the 1980s, the diagram has become a preferred method for researching, communicating, theorising and making architectural designs, ideas and projects. Thus the rise of the diagram, as opposed to the model or the drawing, is the one of the most significant new developments in the process of design in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Diagrams of Architecture is the first anthology to represent - through texts and diagrams - the histories, theories and futures of architecture through the diagram.
Spanning the Pre-historic to the Parametric, Diagrams of Architecture illustrates over 250 diagrams and brings together 26 previously published and newly commissioned essays from leading international academics, architects, theorists and professional experts. These combine to define the past and future of the diagram's discourse. Prefaced with a critical introduction by Mark Garcia, each text investigates a central concept or dimension of the diagram ranging from socio-cultural studies, science, philosophy, technology, CAD/CAM, computing and cyberspace and virtual/digital design to methodology, environment/sustainability and phenomenological, poetic and art architecture; as well as interior, urban, engineering, interactive and landscape design.
The first critical, multidisciplinary book on the history, theory and futures of the architectural diagram.
Includes seminal articles on the diagram from the history and theory of architecture such as those by Peter Eisenman, Sanford Kwinter, MVRDV, Neil Spiller, Lars Spuybroek, UN Studio and Anthony Vidler.
Features 16 newly commissioned articles by leading architects and theorists, including Will Alsop, Charles Jencks, Hanif Kara, Patrik Schumacher, Bernard Tschumi, Leon van Schaik and Alejandro Zaera-Polo.
Includes a full-colour critical collection of over 250 of the most significant and original diagrams, many of which are previously unpublished, in the history of architecture from around the world.

Produktdetails

• Architectural Design
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 14551945000
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2010
• Abmessung: 242mm x 171mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 875g
• ISBN-13: 9780470519455
• ISBN-10: 0470519452
• Artikelnr.: 26155451

Autorenporträt

MARK GARCIA is the Research Co-ordinator and an MPhil/PhD Supervisor in the Department of Architecture at the Royal College of Art (RCA). Mark has worked for Branson Coates Architecture and has held academic research posts at St Antony's College (Oxford University) and the Department of Industrial Design Engineering (Royal College of Art), as well as lecturing in Universities across Japan, Switzerland and the UK. Mark is guest-editor of AD Architextiles, November, 2006 (John Wiley & Sons Ltd) and AD Patterns of Architecture, November, 2009 (John Wiley & Sons Ltd).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Diagrams. Introduction: Histories and Theories of the
Diagrams of Architecture (Mark Garcia). Part I: Histories and Theories of
the Diagrams of Architecture. Part I: Diagrams. Diagrams of Diagrams:
Architectural Abstraction and Modern Representation (Anthony Vidler).
Scientific Management and the Birth of the Functional Diagram (Hyungmin
Pai). Urban Diagrams and Urban Modelling (David Grahame Shane). Dummy Text,
or the Diagrammatic Basis of Contemporary Architecture (Robert E. Somol).
Diagram: an Original Scene of Writing (Peter Eisenman). Poetics of the
Ideogram (Leon van Schaik). Diagrams in Multisensory and Phenomenological
Architecture (Joy Monice Malnar and Frank Vodvarka). The Hammer and the
Song (Sanford Kwinter). Part II: Multidisciplinary Dimensions of the
Diagrams of Architecture. Part II: Diagrams. Diagramming the Interior (Mark
Taylor). Diagrams in Landscape Architecture (Jacky Bowring and Simon
Swaffield). Inhabiting the Forest of Symbols: From Diagramming the City to
the City as Diagram (Brian McGrath). Diagrams and their Future in Urban
Design (Peter A. Hall). Diagrams in Structural Engineering: Applied Diagram
- Engineering Precision (Hanif Kara). Spatial Notation and the Magical
Operations of Collage in the Post-Digital Age (Neil Spiller). Part III:
Architects of the Diagrams of Architecture. Part III: Diagrams. The
Diagrams of Bernard Tschumi (Bernard Tschumi, Bernard Tschumi Architects,
interviewed by Mark Garcia). The Diagram and the Becoming Unmotivated of
the Sign (Peter Eisenman, Eisenman Architects). Expressive Abstractions:
The Diagrams of Will Alsop (Will Alsop interviewed by Mark Garcia).
Diagrams (Ben van Benkel and Caroline Bos, UNStudio). Diagramming the
Contemporary: OMA's Little Helper in the Quest for the New (Wouter Deen and
Udo Garrtizmann, OMA). Between Ideas and Matters: Icons, Indexes, Diagrams,
Drawings and Graphs (Alejandro Zaera-Polo, Foreign Office Architects).
Metacity/Datatown (Winy Maas, MVRDV). Atlas of Novel Tectonics (Jesse
Reiser and Nanako Umemoto, Reiser + Umemoto). Parametric Diagrams (Patrik
Schumacher, Zaha Hadid Architects). NOX Diagrams (Lars Spuybroek, NOX).
Part IV: Epilogues. Part IV: Diagrams. Architectural Evolution: The
Pulsations of Time (Charles Jencks). Epilogue (A Beginning of Other
Diagrams of Architecture and the Futures of the Diagrams of Architecture)
(Mark Garcia). Select Bibliography. Index.