Notebooks and Narratives. The Secret Laboratory of the Architect's sketchbook
- Submitting institution
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University of Ulster
- Unit of assessment
- 13 - Architecture, Built Environment and Planning
- Output identifier
- 85879035
- Type
- C - Chapter in book
- DOI
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10.4324/9781315604114
- Book title
- Recto Verso: Redefining the Sketchbook
- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9781409468660
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2014
- URL
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https://pure.ulster.ac.uk/en/publications/notebooks-and-narratives-the-secret-laboratory-of-the-architects--3
- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- 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
- Research group(s)
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A - Architecture Research Group (ARG)
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This commissioned chapter for Ashgate grew directly from participation in a conference and an earlier funded research project which explored the unique nature of the architect’s sketchbook. The exhibition was researched and curated from 2010 over a number of years and in many different venues in the context of different educational and professional settings across the UK and Ireland. It was the first commissioned exhibition by PLACE the Belfast Architecture Centre. The chapter provided the opportunity to reflect on the nature of the
original research work, and the initial questions explored in the exhibition, and to set this in the wider discourse of multidisciplinary approaches across other subject and professional areas, and different pedagogic practices, all of which were brought together in the original conference in 2011, when the research work was still underway. In reassessing the work through the publication, the nature of the original research questions asked and the methodology adopted, and the wide diversity and approaches evidenced in the collected and exhibited notebooks taken from a wide range of international architects, academics and artists, further research questions evolved and which demanded different types of media and curation to explore them. In particular the nature and value of this analogue ‘device’ in a digital age. Many of the architects that had been part of the original exhibition had been operating at an international award winning level and had been combining the use of
sketchbooks in association with sophisticated computer drawings. In so doing the possibility of further research work became clear by the documentation and dissemination of this publication which took the research into new directions.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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