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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"architectural drawing"”.
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In-Between: Architectural Drawing and Imaginative Knowledge
Design drawings mediate between the world of ideas and the world of things, spanning the intangible and tangible. However, contemporary technical architectural drawings, in establishing a direct relationship between the drawing and its object, tend to base this relationship on a visual paradigm …
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Architectural drawing as designing and creating : a constructionist perspective
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture and Planning, 1993.
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The conjured drawings of Carlo Scarpa: a magic-real inquiry into architectural representation
This dissertation proposes a theory of architectural representation based on a close examination of Carlo Scarpa's drawing practices at the Brion cemetery located in San Vito d'Altivole, Italy. Informed by the literary practice of magic-realism and Massimo Bontempelli's thoughts on the ontology of …
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Drawing as Landscape Architectural Scholarship
Considering the vital role that drawing plays in conceiving buildings and landscapes, the question of "knowledge" in relation to visual representations becomes a matter of importance. The conventional view of drawing considers it a passive and neutral means to communicate mental concepts in visual …
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Dance with Musical Architecture: Eurhythmy in Gottfried Semper's works
… as a reference for measuring and scaling the architectural drawings. This research focused on three crucial questions and the discovery of Semper's work, Second Dresden Theater. First, it investigated the connection between Semper's architectural drawing and musical notation. Second, it …
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The Home I Carry With Me: Utilising Drawing Practice to Map the Changing Spatial Concepts of Home in the Context of Unprecedented Human Migration
… by attempting to visualise home through my drawing practice. I appropriate methodologies utilised by feminist artists and theorists; specifically, the strategic use of autobiographic construct. A strategic autobiographic methodology allows me to address home within the context of …
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Ru(m)inations; A Project in San Lorenzo
… or a set of parameters from which I responded. Architectural readings of the city are contaminated with foreshadowings or hints of what is yet to appear. One may read the city as "Janus" who pulsates back and forth leaving traces of past cosmogonies which look forward to being remembered. As the …
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The Sketchpad Window
… the program in relation to the wider context of architectural studies. Unlike traditional architectural drawing tools that realize architectural imagination through line drawing, computer-aided architectural design programs began to use line drawing to also establish communication with the …
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Fiendish Dreams - Reverse Engineering Modern Architecture
Winsor McCay drew delightful drawings about the dreams of a Welsh rarebit fiend, 'rare bits' inspired by an overindulgence in cheese. Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend was a Saturday cartoon that appeared in the New York Evening Telegram from 1904 to 1911, psychic twin to Little Nemo in Slumberland that …
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The depth structure of a London high street : a study in urban order
… and situating the information spatially using architectural drawing techniques. It offers a novel method of investigating and understanding the structures and processes which make up the high streets and which, in aggregate, make the whole city. Tottenham High Road is used here as a case study, …
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Performative Interventions In Public Space: Moments of Urban Transformation in Athens
… Greece, through the development of notational drawings and filmic experiments. The aim is to propose a method to sustain and construct conditions for temporary transformations in selected locations within the urban context of Athens by exploring the symbiosis of corporeal movement and physical …
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NATØ: Exploring architecture as a narrative medium in postmodern London
… led by Nigel Coates that emerged from the Architectural Association in the early 1980s as its subject matter, the thesis questions how architectural production is able to narrate and the modes and methods it employs. The research reveals echoes and resemblances between NATØ projects and a …
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The Effectiveness of Interior Design Students' Study Drawings in the Design Process
Visualization is an important part of the design process. The sketches that are created during the design process are the visible evidence of the visualization that occurs in the brain. The process of designing involves a conversation that occurs between the student and the sketches created during …
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Invisibility, appropriation, subversion: British Army observation posts at the Shankill Falls divide, 1972
… to archive research and theory. This thesis, in drawing upon and indeed innovating a series of techniques, goes beyond the visible, and in effect challenges the assumption that military surveillance was in the public interest. The resulting drawings and text are my original contribution to …