Title & Author:

Begin again, fail better : preliminary drawings in architecture / edited by Kunstmuseum Olten: Helen Thomas, Dorothee, Messmer, Katja Herlach, and Manuel Montenegro ; essays by Marco Bakker [and four others].

Publication:

Zurich : Park Books ; Olten : Kunstmuseum Olten, [2024]
©2024

Description:

212 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimile, plans ; 23 x 30 cm

Notes:
On the occasion of an exhibition held at Kunstmuseum Olten, June 1 - August 25, 2024.
Includes bibliographical references.
Begin again. Feel better / Helen Thomas and Marco Bakker interview Manuel Montenegro -- Catalogue of drawings -- Interlude / Niall Hobhouse -- Interlude / Charles Pictet -- Interlude / Adam Caruso -- Interlude / Ludovica Molo -- Interlude / Irina Davidovici -- Interlude / Stéphanie Bender and Philippe Béboux -- Interlude / Matt Page -- Interlude / Pier Vittorio Aureli -- Greater than all the towers in the world, or The (hand) drawing as a link between art and architecture / Dorothy Messmer -- Sense, sensibility, and the terms of failure / Helen Thomas -- The element of play in drawing / Marco Bakker -- Some points on design and drawing, Five texts by Álvaro Siza selected by Manuel Montenegro, including a recent statement on beginning a design

Summary:

"Begin Again. Fail Better: Preliminary Drawings in Architecture engages with one of the principal activities of the architect in the process of design: drawing by hand, and more specifically, the act of beginning those drawings. Architects try, fail, try again, fail better until they start to move in the direction that ultimately becomes a building . . . or not. This book brings together some 180 preliminary architecture drawings. More than fifty contemporary Swiss architecture firms each contributed two pieces that reveal something of their individual approach and understanding of architecture. This selection is enhanced by historical works from four significant British and Swiss archival collections dating back to the sixteenth century and up to the twentieth. The illustrations are complemented by essays providing a critical and historical framework, as well as a conversation engaging with the conditions and importance of failure within the design process. Brief interludes by international architects, archivists, and teachers, introducing a range of perspectives, round out this beautiful volume"--From The University of Chicago Press website.

ISBN:

9783038603757 (paperback)
3038603759 (paperback)

Subject:

Architectural drawing Switzerland Exhibitions.
Architecture, Swiss Exhibitions.
Architecture suisse Expositions.

Form/genre:

exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Thomas, Helen, 1964- editor.
Messmer, Dorothee, editor.
Herlach, Katja, editor.
Montenegro, Manuel, editor.
Bakker, Marco, 1960- writer of added commentary.
Kunstmuseum Olten, host institution.

Preliminary drawings in architecture

Holdings:

Location: Library main m 321915
Call No.: 321915
Copy: 1
Status: Available