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Dialogue and Design
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By
Kendra Schank Smith, PhD in History, Theory, Criticism, and Representation, Professor, Graduate School of Architecture, University of Utah, USA
Description
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.
Audience
Undergraduate and postgraduate students of architecture
Architects, designers, interior designers, landscape architects, graphic designers,
urban designers, architectural and art historians, and educators in these fields
Contents
The architectural sketch and likeness; Play, quickness and Festina Lente; Memory, imagination, fantasy; Caricature as a mode of transformation; The grotesque sketch; Observation/compendium
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Hardbound, 152 pages, publication date: MAY-2008
ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-8226-8
ISBN-10: 0-7506-8226-4
Imprint: ARCHITECTURAL PRESS
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