Drawing Parallels: Knowledge Production in Axonometric, Isometric and Oblique Drawings
- Submitting institution
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Manchester Metropolitan University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 252713
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.4324/9781315578040
- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9781315578040
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- March
- Year of publication
- 2019
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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A - Architecture
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This monograph (218 pages) addresses a key area in architecture: how drawing conventions represent alternative forms of knowledge production, that is grounded in a long-term inquiry into the nature of architectural drawing. Rather than a history of inscriptive practice, the work is framed as an anthropology of architectural drawing, respecting the drawing process itself as one method for developing the research. The book is grounded in archival research at the drawing collection at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal as well as an extensive literature review taking in the work of the five key 20th century architects. Each architect is characterised as a theorist-practitioner, and meticulous copies of their drawings are made as part of the enacted and embodied process of understanding. The book reproduces key drawings from the CCA collection alongside a broad selection of the author’s own drawings. I have presented the book at Keio University, Tokyo; the University of Edinburgh; and at the Cass Research Seminar and Arts University Bournemouth. It has received one review so far, in Drawing Research, Theory and Practice (Vol. 4, issue 2) where the review by Professor Oren Lieberman of Portsmouth University praised the book for its embrace of embodied practice and a carefully produced theoretical text. The book contributes to the growing field of architectural anthropology as well as the more established literature on architectural drawing. Despite the number of books on drawing, this is one of only a handful addressing parallel projection: the majority of the work on drawing considers the emergence of perspective or the intersection between manual and digital drawing practices. This work establishes another way of discussing this topic, through a close reading of the drawings themselves and the conventions that allow us to communicate with them.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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