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Size matters: virtual scale and bodily imagination in architectural drawing
Paul Emmons
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03 October 2006, pp. 227-235
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The rich, long history of scale as the imaginative inhabitation of a drawing provides a critique of the seductive but illusory exactness of ‘full scale’ representations in CAD.

Falling into the image
Mathan Ratinam
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03 October 2006, pp. 237-244
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A new means of representing architecture digitally, derived partly from historical techniques of quadratura and photogrammetry, is described and explained through words and diagrams.

Building Castelforte
Giorgio Gianighian
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19 June 2006, pp. 51-68
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The concluding part of a conservation study of a 455-year-old Venetian double house reveals its fascinating, multi-layered construction history.

Flexible housing: opportunities and limits
Tatjana Schneider, Jeremy Till
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27 July 2006, pp. 157-166
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Flexibility in housing design has social, economic and environmental advantages and yet is currently often ignored. The first of two papers sets out the history of this issue.

In the corner of perception – spatial experience in distraction
Katja Grillner
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03 October 2006, pp. 245-254
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Walter Benjamin’s notion of a distracted and de-focused architectural experience informs the author’s writing and spatial installation projects.

The Edifice Complex By Deyan Sudjic Allen Lane/Penguin 2005 346pp. ISBN 0-713-99762-1 (hb) ISBN 0-141-01672-8 (pb). Price £25 (hb), £8.99 (pb) Building Simply By Christian Schittich (ed) Birkhäuser, Basel, 2005 176pp, 100 colour and 200 mono illus. ISBN 3-7643-7271-0 (hb). Price £50 (hb)
David Wild
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27 July 2006, pp. 167-169
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Presciently translucent in Yokohama, 1891
Pedro Guedes
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19 June 2006, pp. 69-79
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A house built by physician Willem van der Heyden in 1891 was a remarkable precursor of contemporary building services and construction technologies, and of Modern architecture.

Architecture, Craft and Culture By John Tuomey Gandon Editions, Kinsale, 2004 72 pp, 66 mono illus. ISBN 0-9468-4662-6. Price £6.70
Patrick Lynch
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27 July 2006, pp. 170-171
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Towards a new cathedral: mechanolatry and metaphysics in the milieu of Colin St John Wilson
Stephen Kite, Sarah Menin
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19 June 2006, pp. 81-90
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Architectural debates of the 1950s – particularly between ‘empirical’ and ‘formal’ strands of Modernism – are highlighted by a study of the architectural projects, biography and milieu of Colin St John Wilson.

Drawing Adam’s navel: the problem of disegno as creative tension between the visible and knowledgeable
Raymond Quek
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03 October 2006, pp. 255-264
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A study of Renaissance debates surrounding disegno reveals much about how twentieth-century design practices envisage the mutual relationship of imagination, drawing and design.

Constructing Architecture. By Andrea Deplazes (ed) Birkhäuser, Basel, 2005. 512pp, many mono illus and drwgs. ISBN 3-7643-7190-0 (hb). ISBN 3-7643-7189-7 (pb) Price £60 (hb), £38 (pb)
Alan Jones
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19 June 2006, pp. 91-93
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Architectural models: material, intellectual, spiritual
Bradley Starkey
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03 October 2006, pp. 265-272
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Drawings are often accorded intellectual status in architecture while models are associated with the material. A levitating model reappraises assumptions about materiality.

On the edge
Charles Rattray
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27 July 2006, pp. 172-176
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The use of drawing in architectural design: some recent experiences from UK practice
Brian Edwards
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03 October 2006, pp. 273-286
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Interviews with leading UK architects suggest the continued relevance of traditional techniques in the age of CAD draughting and modelling systems.

Theoretical Anxiety and Design Strategies in the work of Eight Contemporary Architects. By Rafael Moneo. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2005. 416 pp, 615 mono illus. ISBN 0-262-13443-8 Price £25.95 (pb)
Alastair Hall
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19 June 2006, pp. 94-95
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Flexible housing: the means to the end
Jeremy Till, Tatjana Schneider
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03 October 2006, pp. 287-296
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How might flexible housing be achieved? ‘Determinate’ and ‘indeterminate’ approaches are examined using twentieth-century examples

Albers and Moholy-Nagy: from the Bauhaus to the New World Exhibition at Tate Modern, London, 9 March – 4 June 2006, Kunsthalle, Bielefeld, 25 June – 1 October 2006, Whitney Museum, New York, 2 November 2006 – 21 January 2007 Catalogue by Achim Borchardt-Hume, Hal Foster et al Tate Publishing, London, 2006 192 pp., 180 illus. ISBN 1-85437-691-8, £35.00 (hb) ISBN 1-85437-638-1, £24.99 (pb)
David Wild
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03 October 2006, pp. 297-298
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Industrial Ruins: Space, Aesthetics and Materiality By Tim Edensor Berg, Oxford, 2005 208 pp., 80 mono illus. ISBN 1-845-200-764 (hb) ISBN 1 845 200 772 (pb) Price £50.00 (hb), £16.99 (pb)
Pamela Self
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03 October 2006, pp. 298-300
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Building Desire: On the Barcelona Pavilion By George Dodds Routledge, London, 2005 184pp, many illus and drwgs ISBN 0-415-32523-4 (hb) ISBN 0-415-32524-2 (pb) Price £75 (hb), £22.50 (pb)
Andrew Higgott
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03 October 2006, pp. 300-302
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Tracing 9H
Ros Diamond
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03 October 2006, pp. 304-306
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Size matters: virtual scale and bodily imagination in architectural drawing

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Falling into the image

history

Building Castelforte

theory

Flexible housing: opportunities and limits

In the corner of perception – spatial experience in distraction

reviews

The Edifice Complex By Deyan Sudjic Allen Lane/Penguin 2005 346pp. ISBN 0-713-99762-1 (hb) ISBN 0-141-01672-8 (pb). Price £25 (hb), £8.99 (pb) Building Simply By Christian Schittich (ed) Birkhäuser, Basel, 2005 176pp, 100 colour and 200 mono illus. ISBN 3-7643-7271-0 (hb). Price £50 (hb)

history

Presciently translucent in Yokohama, 1891

reviews

Architecture, Craft and Culture By John Tuomey Gandon Editions, Kinsale, 2004 72 pp, 66 mono illus. ISBN 0-9468-4662-6. Price £6.70

history

Towards a new cathedral: mechanolatry and metaphysics in the milieu of Colin St John Wilson

theory

Drawing Adam’s navel: the problem of disegno as creative tension between the visible and knowledgeable

reviews

Constructing Architecture. By Andrea Deplazes (ed) Birkhäuser, Basel, 2005. 512pp, many mono illus and drwgs. ISBN 3-7643-7190-0 (hb). ISBN 3-7643-7189-7 (pb) Price £60 (hb), £38 (pb)

theory

Architectural models: material, intellectual, spiritual

insight

On the edge

theory

The use of drawing in architectural design: some recent experiences from UK practice

reviews

Theoretical Anxiety and Design Strategies in the work of Eight Contemporary Architects. By Rafael Moneo. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2005. 416 pp, 615 mono illus. ISBN 0-262-13443-8 Price £25.95 (pb)

theory

Flexible housing: the means to the end

reviews

Industrial Ruins: Space, Aesthetics and Materiality By Tim Edensor Berg, Oxford, 2005 208 pp., 80 mono illus. ISBN 1-845-200-764 (hb) ISBN 1 845 200 772 (pb) Price £50.00 (hb), £16.99 (pb)

Building Desire: On the Barcelona Pavilion By George Dodds Routledge, London, 2005 184pp, many illus and drwgs ISBN 0-415-32523-4 (hb) ISBN 0-415-32524-2 (pb) Price £75 (hb), £22.50 (pb)

insight

Tracing 9H

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