Koliji, Hooman.

In-between : architectural drawing and imaginative knowledge in Islamic and Western traditions / Hooman Koliji.

Burlington, VT : Ashgate Publishing Company, [2015]

xxxiv, 216 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.

Ashgate studies in architecture series

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 recognised as intermediaries, mediating between the world of ideas and the world of things, spanning the intangible and tangible. The notion of the "Imaginal" as an intermediary between the invisible and visible is discussed, showing how architectural drawings lend themselves to this notion by performing as creative agents contributing not only to the physical world but also penetrating the realm of concepts. The book argues that this 'in-between' quality to architectural drawing is essential and that it is critical to perceive drawings as subtle bodies that hold physical attributes (e.g. form, proportion, colour), highly evocative, yet with no matter. Focusing on Islamic geometric architectural drawings, both historical and contemporary, it draws on key philosophical and conceptual notions of imagination from the Islamic tradition as these relate to the creative act. In doing so, this book not only makes important insights into the design process and act of architectural representation, but more broadly it adds to debates on philosophies of the imagination, linking both Western and Islamic traditions.

9781472438683 (hardback ; alk. paper)
147243868X (hardback ; alk. paper)
(ebook)
9781472438690
(epub)
9781472438706

Communication in architectural design Islamic countries.
Communication in architectural design Western countries.
Architectural drawing Methodology.
Imagination (Philosophy)
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Communication en design architectural Pays musulmans.
Communication en design architectural Occident.
Communication in architectural design.
Islamic countries.
Western countries.

Ashgate studies in architecture series.

Location: Library main 290559
Call No.: BIB 233609
Status: Available