Opening Lines I ? IV
Opening Lines I ? IV
Tina di Carlo (Editor)
Drawing Matter, 2018
Paperback | 7-3/4 x 11-1/2 inches | 592 pages in four volumes | English | ISBN: | £100.00
PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION:
This series of books is generated, very simply, from conversations with architects sitting again in front of their old sketchbooks. Often, he or she may not have opened them for many years; we found them ready to speak now quite as unselfconsciously as they had been drawing decades before.
The Drawing Matter collection has a focus on material of this kind, and we have long recognized that sketchbooks are generally the most personal ? and the least casually accessible ? medium for the production of architectural thinking. To understand the collection better, we have tried here to invent an instrument in which the ideas of the architect, as expressed in the sketchbook and through the spoken word, might once again be synchronized. The publication of the four volumes is timed to coincide with an exhibition of the same title at the Tchoban Foundation Museum for Architectural Drawing, in Berlin.
dDAB COMMENTARY:
In June 2013 Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza spoke at the Museum of Modern Art about the Foundation Iberê Camargo in Porto Alegre, Brazil. It was a memorable lecture in part because of the format, with page after page from Siza's sketchbooks displayed large on the screen behind him. It was like a peek into his design process, his words revealing what was happening with his di...
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