Title & Author:

Architecture and its image : four centuries of architectural representation : works from the collection of the Canadian Centre for Architecture / edited by Eve Blau and Edward Kaufman ; with essays by Robin Evans [and others].

Publication:

Montreal : Centre Canadien d'Architecture/Canadian Centre for Architecture ; Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by the MIT Press, 1989.

Description:

369 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 x 30 cm

Series:

Canadian Centre for Architecture documents of contemporary architecture.

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Patterns of fact: photography and the transformation of the early industrial city / Eve Blau -- Architecture and travel in the age of British eclecticism / Edward Kaufman -- A place for time: the architecture of festivals and theatres / William Alexander McClung -- Architectural publications, competitions and exhibitions / Helene Lipstadt -- The pencil and electronic sketchboard: architectural representation and the computer / Robert Bruegmann.
American Institute of Architects, Citation for Excellence in International Architectural Book Publishing, 1990
Society of Architectural Historians, Architectural Exhibition Catalogue Award, 1990

Summary:

The catalog describes 350 examples, drawn from the CCA collections, of work by architects and architectural delineators, photographers, and cartographers. The book is illustrated by over 400 superbly reproduced duotone illustrations and 16 pages of color.
Drawing on an incomparable collection of architectural drawings and prints, photographs, books, and periodicals, Architecture and Its Image explores the idea of serial imagery in architectural representation through works dating from the Renaissance to today. Although drawings and photographs of architecture are often viewed as single images, they are generally produced in series. The most basic of these is the set of drawings that shows a building in plan, elevation, and section. But as Architecture and Its Image reveals, the concept can be extended to other types of architectural representations: theater sets, travel accounts, photographic surveys, pattern books, even the alternative designs submitted for competition. All relate in different ways to their subjects; viewed in series, all reveal underlying principles of organization that can convey new understanding of architectural imagery.
Under the headings Architecture in Three Dimensions, Architecture in Place and Time, and Architecture in Process, essays by six scholars use the concept of serial imagery to explore the complex relationship between various types of architectural representations and their subject matter: projective drawings (Robin Evans), 19th-century urban survey photography (Eve Blau), the travel narratives of English architectural "explorers" from the mid-18th to the mid-19th century (Edward Kaufman), festival and theater architecture (William Alexander McClung), architectural publications, competitions, and exhibitions (Helene Lipstadt), and computer graphics (Robert Bruegmann).

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0262022893
9780262022897
0920785042
9780920785041
0920785069
9780920785065
0920785107
9780920785102
0920785085
9780920785089

Subject:

Centre canadien d'architecture Exhibitions.
Centre canadien d'architecture Expositions
Centre canadien d'architecture
Centre canadien d'architecture (Montréal) Expositions.
Architectural drawing Exhibitions.
Architecture Bibliography Exhibitions.
Architectural photography Exhibitions.
Dessin d'architecture Expositions.
Photographie d'architecture Expositions.
Architecture dans l'art Expositions.
Architectural drawing
Architectural photography
Architecture
Dessin d'architecture Catalogues d'exposition.
Photographie d'architecture Catalogues d'exposition.
Architectural Representation.
Architectural Design (discipline)
Architectural drawings.
Architectural Photography.
Cityscapes (representations)

Form/genre:

Bibliography
Exhibition
Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition catalogs.
exhibition catalogs.
bibliographies.
Bibliographies
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Blau, Eve.
Kaufman, Edward, 1952-
Evans, Robin, 1944-1993.
Centre canadien d'architecture.
Canadian Centre for Architecture documents of contemporary architecture.

Holdings:

Location: Library study room cca productions 150948
Call No.: N910.M71 A7 1989a
Copy: c. 3
Notes: hardcover
Status: Available

Location: Library cage m cca productions 150946
Call No.: 1989-1a
Copy: c. 2
Notes: hardcover
Status: Available

Location: Library cage m cca productions 150945
Call No.: 1989-1a
Copy: c. 1
Notes: hardcover
Status: Available

Location: Library main m 150947
Call No.: N910.M71 A7 1989a
Copy: c. 4
Notes: pbk.
Status: External loan