| Description |
1 online resource (251 pages) |
| Series |
Ashgate Studies in Architecture |
|
Ashgate Studies in Architecture
|
| Contents |
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Prologue: Imaginative Drawing and the In-Between; Part 1 Between Sense and Imagination; Synopsis; Preamble on Imagination; The Creative Field of Imagination; Poetics of the Imaginal; Part 2 Between Idea and Thing; Visual Representation and Culture in the Islamic World; The Intermediary Meditative Field of Geometry; Imaginative Inhabitation of the Geometric Mode of Girih; Geometric Mode: From Aesthetics to metaphysics of Being; Part 3 Between Inside and Outside; Window as Girih; Inhabiting the Space of the Orosi Window |
|
Epilogue: The Window of DrawingAppendix: Glossary of Terms; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Contemporary technical architectural drawings, in establishing a direct relationship between the drawing and its object, tend to privilege the visible physical world at the expense of the invisible intangible ideas and concepts, including that of the designer's imagination. As a result, drawing may become a utilitarian tool for documentation, devoid of any meaningful value in terms of a kind of knowledge that could potentially link the visible and invisible. This book argues that design drawings should be recognized as intermediaries, mediating between the world of ideas and the world of thin |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-198) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Communication in architectural design -- Islamic countries
|
|
Communication in architectural design -- Western countries
|
|
Architectural drawing -- Methodology
|
|
Imagination (Philosophy)
|
|
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
|
|
ARCHITECTURE -- Adaptive Reuse & Renovation.
|
|
ARCHITECTURE -- Buildings -- Landmarks & Monuments.
|
|
ARCHITECTURE -- Professional Practice.
|
|
ARCHITECTURE -- Reference.
|
|
Communication in architectural design
|
|
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
|
|
Imagination (Philosophy)
|
|
Islamic countries
|
|
Western countries
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| Author |
Canniffe, Eamonn, Dr
|
| ISBN |
9781472438690 |
|
1472438698 |
|
