Main entry:

Hawley, Christine, 1949-

Title & Author:

Transitions : concepts + drawings + buildings / Christine Hawley.

Publication:

Burlington, VT : Ashgate Publishing Company, [2013]
©2013

Description:

xiv, 238 pages : illustrations ; 22 x 24 cm.

Series:

Design research in architecture

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
[I.] Urban collage : Peckham house -- TKTS -- Palos Verdes Art Center, California -- [II.] Ground surface : Gifu reconstruction project -- Pfaffenberg Museum, Austria -- Aalborg Aquatic Centre -- Pangyo housing, Korea -- Shanghai redevelopment plan -- Osaka Station, North Osaka -- Hakka Cultural Centre, Heyung City -- Hamburg Docks redevelopment ; Rome Congress Centre -- EMVS housing, Madrid -- Mocape Cultural Centre, Shenzhen -- [III.] Shadows and lines : The Kantine, Frankfurt -- Berlin social housing -- Osaka pavilion -- Hamburg offices -- Yatai -- The blue house -- Meshed ground -- Whitehaven -- Porchester baths -- The shadow house.

Summary:

Most architectural books written by practising architects fall into two categories: theoretical texts, or monographs that describe and illustrate the author's projects. This book combines both, as it explores and illustrates the methodological journey required to translate a concept to a drawing and a drawing to a building. Organised into three essays Urban Collage, Ground Surface, Shadows and Lines, the book examines how conceptual threads begin to compose a specific architectural design 'language' and how they interweave from one direction to another. Importantly, the projects that illustrate the text also demonstrate how imperative or marginal the original ideas become and, to an extent they demonstrate the design process: its successes, illogicality and failures. The essays also discuss the importance of iteration through time where ideas may occasionally be developed as a linear process, but more often emerge through a series of creative digressions.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

9781472409096 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
1472409094 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Hawley, Christine, 1949- Themes, motives.
Hawley, Christine, 1949-
Hawley, Christine 1949-
Themes, motives.
Architektur

Added entries:

Design research in architecture.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 290558
Call No.: BIB 233608
Status: Available