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The Construction of Drawings and Movies

Models for Architectural Design and Analysis

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Published: 27th August 2012
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The architectural imagery that you create is most effective when it examines your project in an abstract manner. Most students and practitioners understand linear perspective and cinema to be examples of architectural presentation tools. This book asks you to consider drawings and movies to be analytical tools that give you the capacity to engage all phases of the design process, from parti to presentation.

The ways in which spaces relate to each other and how materials connect to each other in your projects are as important as your building's appearance. As digital tools increasingly allow you to simulate the experience of built and unbuilt environments, it is essential that you scrutinize the nature of architectural imagery and resist the lure of virtual reality. Though pure simulation may be appropriate for your clients, your design process requires abstraction and analysis.

Author Thomas Forget demonstrates how to construct analytical drawings and movies that challenge the alleged realism of linear perspective and cinema. These demonstrations expose you to underlying principles that will allow you to understand the broader implications of these methods. In addition, historical surveys of drawings and movies provide you with insight into how architects and architectural historians have understood the role of linear perspective and cinema in their fields. Finally, examples of drawing and moviemaking strategies illustrate how you can apply the lessons of the book to precedent analyses and design projects.

"Combining Alberti's theory with examples of experimental film making is a brilliant way to continue the traditions of linear perspective construction in the digital age, and to establish greater rigor and knowledge in the application of movement and time to architectural representations." Brian McGrath, associate professor, Parsons The New School for Design, New York, USA

Preface
Introduction: Analytical and Pictorial Imagery
Construction Logic
The Demystification of Linear Perspective
The Making of a Movie
Matters of History
The Non-linear Progression of Linear Perspective
The Extents (and Limits) of Architecture-Cinema
Indeterminate Projections
Architectural Drawings
Architectural Movies
Epilogue: The Reflexivity of Architecture and Projection
Notes and Credits
Index
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ISBN: 9780415898393
ISBN-10: 0415898390
Audience: Tertiary; University or College
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 272
Published: 27th August 2012
Dimensions (cm): 24.6 x 17.4
Weight (kg): 0.832