Analogical Drawing: Re-Reading Aldo Rossi’s Analogical City
- Submitting institution
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University of Central Lancashire
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 29222
- Type
- T - Other
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- Location
- Glasgow, Scotland
- Brief description of type
- Multi-component output consisting of three connected journal articles
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month
- June
- Year
- 2019
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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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
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Description and Aim
Three image-based journal articles using drawing, collage and montage, accompanied by a critical text. The aim is to re-read architect Aldo Rossi’s idea of the analogical city as a visual form of critical architectural theory through a process that I call here “analogical drawing.” The research is situated between architectural theory, critical theory and theoretical design research. It seeks to reassert a critical, collective and reflective approach against an individualised contemporary world that too often denies intellectual culture.
Questions
How can architectural theory and critical readings of Rossi’s theory and projects connect to new representations of architecture and the city? How can a dialectic of theory and concept formation in relation to the production of image-based representations such as drawings and montages develop new perspectives, frameworks and methodologies specifically relating to Rossi’s idea of analogical cities? More broadly how can such a methodology contribute to the development of a critical architectural theory?
Methodology
1. Close-reading of Rossi’s theories, projects and drawings in relation to other key architects and thinkers toward new theoretical frameworks and representations;
2. Close-writing to critically reflect on interpretive drawing;
3. Close-drawing as the production of critical interpretive drawings and montages toward new formal knowledge, leading to:
4. Expanded notion of theoretical architectural design research as critical architectural theory, in particular the relationship between an image-based discourse and theoretical research;
5. Close coordination with journal editors and publishers to compose pages of articles at typesetting stage for text and images to read in dialogue.
Dissemination
Published in: Scroope: Cambridge Architecture Journal. No. 28 Concinnitas: 74-77 (2019); InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture. Issue 28 Contending with Crisis (2018); Journal of Architectural Education, Issue 72:1 Project, 44-45 (2018).
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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