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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Robin Evans"”.
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Beyond Topography: Remapping Appalachia
… a false sense that we only construct things. Robin Evans might be right that architects make drawings, not buildings, but through these drawings, we’re also moving mountains. The geography of Appalachia has become collateral damage in architecture’s focus on our urban centers through …
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Exploring the technics of computer representation : three 'prepared' instruments for plotting, meshing and rendering
… Translations from Drawing to Building, Historian Robin Evans draws attention to the "blind spot between the drawing and its object" as a productive site in architecture. Instead of a "uniform space through which meaning may glide without modulation", the "substratum" of this "gap" is uneven and …
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Le SENS de la TRANSLATION: Essays on the Bilingual Body
… Drawings to Buildings’, architectural historian Robin Evans argues that the translation of words can be compared to the translation of geometrical figures from one point in space to another. Yet, the substratum across which they travel, he adds, is not isotropic, and words get ‘bent, broken or …
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Conceptual expression and depictive opacity: Changing attitudes towards architectural drawings between 1960 and 1990
This dissertation is a study of a remarkable change that came about in the kind of drawings that architects used to present their work between the decades of 1960 and 1990. Drawings in this period, visually rich and compositionally complex, seemed to mark an entirely new sensibility towards their …