The diagrams of architecture : AD reader /
edited by Mark Garcia
- Chichester : John Wiley and Sons, 2010
- 320 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Select Bibliography : p. 317
Introduction : diagrams -- Introduction : Histories and theories of the diagrams of architecture / Part I : Histories and theories of the diagrams of architecture. Part I : Diagrams -- Diagrams of diagrams : architectural abstraction and modern representation / Scientific management and the birth of the functional diagram / Urban diagrams and urban modelling / Dummy text, or the diagrammatic basis of contemporary architecture / Diagram : an original scene of writing / Poetics of the ideogram / Diagrams in multisensory and phenomenological architecture / The hammer and the song / Part II : multidisciplinary dimensions of the diagrams of architecture. Part II : Diagrams -- Diagramming the interior / Diagrams in landscape architecture / Inhabiting the forest of symbols : from diagramming the city to the city as diagram / Diagrams and their future in urban design / Diagrams in structural engineering : applied diagrams, engineering precision / Spatial notation and the magical operations of collage in the post-digital age / Part III : Architects of the diagrams of architecture. Part III : Diagrams -- The diagrams of Bernard Tschumi / The diagrams and the becoming unmotivated of the sign / Expressive abstractions : the diagrams of Will Alsop / Diagrams / Diagramming the contemporary : OMA's little helper in the quest for the new / Between ideas and matters : icons, indexes, diagrams, drawings and graphs / Metacity/Datatown / Atlas of novel tectonics / Parametric diagrams / NOX diagrams / Part IV : Epilogues. Part IV : Diagrams -- Architectural evolution : the pulsations of time / Epilogue (A beginning of other diagrams of architecture and the futures of the diagrams of architecture) / Select bibliography -- Index Mark Garcia -- Anthony Vidler -- Hyungmin Pai -- David Grahame Shane -- Robert E Somol -- Peter Eisenman -- Leon van Schaik -- Joy Monice Malnar and Frank Vodvarka -- Sandford Kwinter -- Mark Taylor -- Jacky Bowring and Simon Swaffield -- Brian McGrath -- Peter A Hall -- Hanif Kara -- Neil Spiller -- Bernard Tschumi (Bernard Tschumi Architects) interviewed by Mark Garcia -- Peter Eisenman (Eisenman Architects) -- Will Alsop interviewed by Mark Garcia -- Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos (UNStudio) -- Wouter Deen and Udo Garritzmann (OMA) -- Alejandro Zaera-Polo (Foreign Office Architects) -- Winy Maas (MVRDV) -- Jesse Reiser and Nanako Umemoto (Reiser + Umemoto) -- Patrik Schumacher (Zaha Hadid Architects) -- Lars Spuybroek (NOX) -- Charles Jencks -- Mark Garcia --