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Drawings, Models and Imagination.

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Drawings, Models and Imagination

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From Models to Drawings: Imagination and representation in architecture, ed. by Marco Frascari, Jonathan Hale and Bradly Starkey, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, London, 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX 14 4PN, simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge, 270 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10016, 2007. 272pp, illust. Price 49.95 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-4154-3113-2.

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The digitalisation of the design process and the production documentation of architecture have forced most architects and scholars to re-think the import that should be given to drawings and models. The essays compiled in this book are selected from a conference organized by AHRA (Architectural Humanities Research Association, UK) and held at the University of Nottingham in November 2005. Marco Frascari, who at the time was the Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the University of Nottingham, set the theme of the conference. A skilled delineator, Frascari worked with...

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