Architects' Sketches

Architects' Sketches

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Schank Smith, Kendra
Taylor & Francis Ltd
EAN: 9781138950825
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Concepts from architects’ minds evolve through sketches and as a mode of transference are conveyed to the finished building. This book compares qualities of sketches to reveal unique approaches to the instruments of thinking in which all architects engage. It provides new insight into the relationship between architectural sketches and the process of creative manipulation. Sketches comprise a thinking mechanism, and through the qualities of ambiguity, quickness and change, they initiate a dialogue for architects. As a medium to facilitate communication, recording, discovery and evaluation, their pertinence lies in their ability to exhibit both the precise and the imprecise. Exploring four related theoretical approaches, play, memory-imagination-fantasy, caricature and the grotesque, the book shows how imprecision stimulates imagination to conceive new forms in the dialogue of architectural sketches.
EAN 9781138950825
ISBN 1138950823
Binding Paperback / softback
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publication date June 17, 2015
Pages 152
Language English
Dimensions 276 x 219
Country United Kingdom
Authors Schank Smith, Kendra