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Alternative histories
Alternative histories
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Acknowledging that architecture is a corpus of inherited ideas, this publication began with a question: could a contemporary architect, with their own references, make a model that would respond to a drawing from the past? This book collects the 85 models produced by the same number of practices alongside the architectural drawings that prompted them, all of which are(...)
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Summary:
Acknowledging that architecture is a corpus of inherited ideas, this publication began with a question: could a contemporary architect, with their own references, make a model that would respond to a drawing from the past? This book collects the 85 models produced by the same number of practices alongside the architectural drawings that prompted them, all of which are(...)
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Architectural Theory
Architectural Theory
Publication:
August 2020
August 2020
Title:
Alternative histories
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$54.95
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Summary:
Acknowledging that architecture is a corpus of inherited ideas, this publication began with a question: could a contemporary architect, with their own references, make a model that would respond to a drawing from the past? This book collects the 85 models produced by the same number of practices alongside the architectural drawings that prompted them, all of which are held in the UK-based archive of Drawing Matter. Taken as a whole, the responses challenge the facile understanding of concepts of reference, history or influence as drivers of contemporary architectural thinking. From methods to materials, the project opens up not only new ways of looking at the past, but also a series of conversations about how architects today shape their present.
Alternative histories
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Price:
$54.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Acknowledging that architecture is a corpus of inherited ideas, this publication began with a question: could a contemporary architect, with their own references, make a model that would respond to a drawing from the past? This book collects the 85 models produced by the same number of practices alongside the architectural drawings that prompted them, all of which are held in the UK-based archive of Drawing Matter. Taken as a whole, the responses challenge the facile understanding of concepts of reference, history or influence as drivers of contemporary architectural thinking. From methods to materials, the project opens up not only new ways of looking at the past, but also a series of conversations about how architects today shape their present.
Form:
books
books
Publication:
August 2020
August 2020
Subject:
Architectural Theory
Architectural Theory
