Architectural Drawings as Investigating Devices. Architecture’s Changing Scope in the 20th Century

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
List of Figures
Foreword
1 Introduction
2 Different Ways of Relating Fiction to Reality and Architectural Drawings: Object-Oriented and Subject-Oriented Modes of Representation
3 Mies Van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and the Modernist Ethos: Around the Spirit of truth and Clarity
4 Individual-Community Assemblages in Post-War Era Architecture: The Dissolution of Universality
5 Decodification of Design Process as Syntactic Analogy: The Primacy of the Observer in the 1970s and 1980s
6 Identification of the Architect with the Architectural Artefact: Autobiography vis-à-vis the Design Process
7 Bernard Tschumi and the Intensification of Urban Conditions: Uncovering the Potentialities Hidden in the Programme
8 Bernard Tschumi’s Architecture as the Discourse of Events: Disjunction and a new Definition of Metropolis
9 Rem Koolhaas and the Congestion of Metropolis: How the Artificial would Replace the Reality?
10 Conversing with Bernard Tschumi on his Conception of Architecture’s Modes of Representation: Instead of Epilogue
Index