Translations from drawing to building and other essays / Robin Evans.

Main entry:

Evans, Robin, 1944-1993, author.

Title & Author:

Translations from drawing to building and other essays / Robin Evans.

Publication:

London : AA Publications, [2023]

Description:

255 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 21 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Paradoxes of the ordinary / Mohsen Mostafavi -- Towards anarchitecture -- The rights of retreat and the rites of exclusion : notes towards the definition of wall -- Figures, doors and passages -- Rookeries and model dwellings : English housing reform and the moralities of private space -- Not to be used for wrapping purposes : a review of the exhibition of Peter Eisenman's Fin d'ou T hou S -- Translations from drawing to building -- The developed surface : an enquiry into the brief life of an 18th century drawing technique -- Mies van der Rohe's paradoxical symmetries -- Robin Evans : writings / Robin Middleton.

Summary:

A re-edition of Robin Evans' classic essay anthology Translations from Drawing to Building and Other Essays, originally published by the Architectural Association (AA) in 1997. Featuring a new introduction, the book is the first in a new series of essay anthologies entitled AA Documents. This book brings together eight of the most interesting and significant essays by the unequalled historian Robin Evans, author of The Projective Cast. Written over a period of 20 years from 1970, shortly after his graduation from the Architectural Association (AA), to 1990, the essays cover a wide range of architectural concerns: domestic space, society's involvement with building types, aspects of geometry, modes of projection and drawing as a process for generating ideas. The book includes 'Mies van der Rohe's Paradoxical Symmetries' and other essays first published in AA Files. Evans's writings are supported by a new introduction and an annotated bibliography by Richard Difford. This AA Documents publication is a re-edition of the 1997 essay collection originally published by AA Publications.-- Publisher's synopsis

ISBN:

9781907896972 paperback
190789697X paperback

Subject:

Architecture and society.
Architecture History.
Architecture et société.
Architecture Histoire.
Architecture

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 318511
Call No.: 318511
Copy: 1
Status: Available

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