{"product_id":"the-diagrams-of-architecture-isbn-9780470519455","title":"The Diagrams of Architecture","description":"\u003cp\u003eSince the 1980s, the diagram has become a preferred method for researching, communicating, theorising and making architectural designs, ideas and projects. Thus the rise of the diagram, as opposed to the model or the drawing, is the one of the most significant new developments in the process of design in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Diagrams of Architecture is the first anthology to represent - through texts and diagrams - the histories, theories and futures of architecture through the diagram.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSpanning the Pre-historic to the Parametric, Diagrams of Architecture illustrates over 250 diagrams and brings together 26 previously published and newly commissioned essays from leading international academics, architects, theorists and professional experts. These combine to define the past and future of the diagram's discourse. Prefaced with a critical introduction by Mark Garcia, each text investigates a central concept or dimension of the diagram ranging from socio-cultural studies, science, philosophy, technology, CAD\/CAM, computing and cyberspace and virtual\/digital design to methodology, environment\/sustainability and phenomenological, poetic and art architecture; as well as interior, urban, engineering, interactive and landscape design.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe first critical, multidisciplinary book on the history, theory and futures of the architectural diagram.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes seminal articles on the diagram from the history and theory of architecture such as those by Peter Eisenman, Sanford Kwinter, MVRDV, Neil Spiller, Lars Spuybroek, UN Studio and Anthony Vidler.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFeatures 16 newly commissioned articles by leading architects and theorists, including Will Alsop, Charles Jencks, Hanif Kara, Patrik Schumacher, Bernard Tschumi, Leon van Schaik and Alejandro Zaera-Polo.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes a full-colour critical collection of over 250 of the most significant and original diagrams, many of which are previously unpublished, in the history of architecture from around the world.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  Introduction: Diagrams.  \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Histories and Theories of the Diagrams of Architecture (\u003ci\u003eMark Garcia\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Histories and Theories of the Diagrams of Architecture.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart I: Diagrams.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDiagrams of Diagrams: Architectural Abstraction and Modern Representation (\u003ci\u003eAnthony Vidler\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eScientific Management and the Birth of the Functional Diagram (\u003ci\u003eHyungmin Pai\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUrban Diagrams and Urban Modelling (\u003ci\u003eDavid Grahame Shane\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDummy Text, or the Diagrammatic Basis of Contemporary Architecture (\u003ci\u003eRobert E. Somol\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDiagram: an Original Scene of Writing (\u003ci\u003ePeter Eisenman\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePoetics of the Ideogram (\u003ci\u003eLeon van Schaik\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDiagrams in Multisensory and Phenomenological Architecture (\u003ci\u003eJoy Monice Malnar and Frank Vodvarka\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Hammer and the Song (\u003ci\u003eSanford Kwinter\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Multidisciplinary Dimensions of the Diagrams of Architecture.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart II: Diagrams.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDiagramming the Interior (\u003ci\u003eMark Taylor\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDiagrams in Landscape Architecture (\u003ci\u003eJacky Bowring and Simon Swaffield\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInhabiting the Forest of Symbols: From Diagramming the City to the City as Diagram (\u003ci\u003eBrian McGrath\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDiagrams and their Future in Urban Design (\u003ci\u003ePeter A. Hall\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDiagrams in Structural Engineering: Applied Diagram – Engineering Precision (\u003ci\u003eHanif Kara\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSpatial Notation and the Magical Operations of Collage in the Post-Digital Age (\u003ci\u003eNeil Spiller\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Architects of the Diagrams of Architecture.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart III: Diagrams.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Diagrams of Bernard Tschumi (\u003ci\u003eBernard Tschumi, Bernard Tschumi Architects, interviewed by Mark Garcia\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Diagram and the Becoming Unmotivated of the Sign (\u003ci\u003ePeter Eisenman, Eisenman Architects\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExpressive Abstractions: The Diagrams of Will Alsop (\u003ci\u003eWill Alsop interviewed by Mark Garcia\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDiagrams (\u003ci\u003eBen van Benkel and Caroline Bos, UNStudio\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDiagramming the Contemporary: OMA’s Little Helper in the Quest for the New (\u003ci\u003eWouter Deen and Udo Garrtizmann, OMA\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBetween Ideas and Matters: Icons, Indexes, Diagrams, Drawings and Graphs (\u003ci\u003eAlejandro Zaera-Polo, Foreign Office Architects\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMetacity\/Datatown (\u003ci\u003eWiny Maas, MVRDV\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAtlas of Novel Tectonics (\u003ci\u003eJesse Reiser and Nanako Umemoto, Reiser + Umemoto\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eParametric Diagrams (\u003ci\u003ePatrik Schumacher, Zaha Hadid Architects\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNOX Diagrams (\u003ci\u003eLars Spuybroek, NOX\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: Epilogues.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart IV: Diagrams.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eArchitectural Evolution: The Pulsations of Time (\u003ci\u003eCharles Jencks\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpilogue (A Beginning of Other Diagrams of Architecture and the Futures of the Diagrams of Architecture) (\u003ci\u003eMark Garcia\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSelect Bibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eMARK GARCIA\u003c\/b\u003e is the Research Co-ordinator and an MPhil\/PhD Supervisor in the Department of Architecture at the Royal College of Art (RCA). Mark has worked for Branson Coates Architecture and has held academic research posts at St Antony’s College (Oxford University) and the Department of Industrial Design Engineering (Royal College of Art), as well as lecturing in Universities across Japan, Switzerland and the UK. Mark is guest-editor of \u003ci\u003eAD Architextiles\u003c\/i\u003e, November, 2006 (John Wiley \u0026amp; Sons Ltd) and \u003ci\u003eAD Patterns of Architecture\u003c\/i\u003e, November, 2009 (John Wiley \u0026amp; Sons Ltd). \u003cp\u003eSince the 1980s, the diagram has become a preferred method for researching, communicating, theorising and making architectural designs, ideas and projects. Thus the rise of the diagram, as opposed to the model or the drawing, is the one of the most significant new developments in the process of design in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. 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