Univ. of Hong Kong M.Arch Course 65741
CHANGES IN ARCHITECTURAL DEPICTION

Bibliography by Topic

I. The Mechanism of Architectural Representation

*Allen, Gerald and Richard Oliver, Architectural Drawing: The Art and the Process, Whitney Library of Design, Watson-Guptill Pub, New York, Part I: ÏThe Art, the Process and the MeaningÓ. (720.284 A42) *Evans, Robin, ÏTranslations from Drawing to BuildingÓ in AA Files 12, Summer 1986. ([s] 720 A673 A8 Q1)

*Scolari, Massimo, ÏThe Problem of RepresentationÓ, unpublished essay, 1988.

II. Social role of Drawings: Working Tool vs. Aesthetic Object

*Robbins, Why Architects Draw, Cambridge Mass: MIT Press, 1993, Section 1, ÏThe Social Uses of DrawingÓ, pp. 1-26. (720.284 R63)

Lipstadt, Helene, ÏArchitectural Publications, Competitions, and ExhibitionsÓ in Blau and KaufmanÌs Architecture and Its Image. (760 A67)

Whiteman, John, ÏCriticism, Representation and Experience in Contemporary Architecture: Architecture and Drawing in an Age of CriticismÓ in Harvard Architecture Review. ([s] 720.5 H3)

Vesely, Dalibor, ÏArchitecture and the Conflict of RepresentationÓ in AA Files 8. ([s] 720 A673 A8 Q1)

III. The Evolution of Drawing Systems: Ortho, Axon & Perspective

*Porter, T., How Architects Visualize, Chapter 1, A Short History of Spatial Representation. (729 P84)

Evans, Robin, ÏWhen the Vanishing-Point DisappearsÓ, in AA Files 23.

([s] 720 A673 A8 Q1)

Evans, Robin, ÏArchitectural ProjectionsÓ in Blau and Kaufman.Ìs Architecture and Its Image, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, 1989. (760 A67)

Guillerme, Jacques and Verin, Helene, ÏThe Archaeology of SectionÓ from Perspecta 25, the Yale Architectural Journal, Rizzoli, 1989. ([s] 720 P46)

Evans, Robin, The Projective Cast: Achitecture & Its Three Geometrics, MIT Press, 1995. (720.1 E92)

Perspective
*Panofsky, Edwin, Perspective as Symbolic Form, Zone Books, 1991 (1924 orig.).

Perez Gomez, Alberto and Pelletier, Louise, ÏArchitectural Representation Beyond PerspectivismÓ in Perspecta 27. ([s] 720 P46)

Clark, Kenneth, PieroÌs ÏArchitecture and MathematicsÓ in Piero della Francesca, Phaidon Press, 1969. (754.615B P61)

IV. Language, Symbols and Abstraction in Spatial Depiction

Art as Symbolic Communication
*Goodman, Nelson, Languages of Art, Oxford University Press, 1969. (701.48 G6) reserve

*Norman, Donald, ÏThe Powers of RepresentationÓ, Chapter 3 in Things that Make Us Smart, New York: Addison Wesley, 1993.

Visual Perception of Form & Space
*Arnheim, Rudolph, Art & Visual Perception, University of California Press, 1974. (701.15 A74) Chapter III: ÏFormÓ & Chapter V: ÏSpaceÓ.

Porter, Tom, ÏOrientation in SpaceÓ in How Architects Visualize. (729 P84)

Symbolic and Representational Color
*Tufte, Edward R., Envisioning Information, Graphics Press, Cheshire CT, 1990, Chapter 3, ÏLayering and SeparationÓ and Chapter 5, ÏColor and InformationÓ.* (302.23 T91)

Diagrams & Maps
Knauer, Roland, Entwurfen and Darstellen, Ernst and Sohn, 1991.

Space Design periodical March 1993, Hong Kong/ Alternative Metropolis.

Tufte, op. cit.

MacEachren, Alan, How Maps Work: Representation, visualization & design, New York: Guilford Press, 1995. (526 M14)

V. Traditional Methods of Realism

Study Drawings and the Human Trace
*Rawson, P., Drawing, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1987. (741 R26) reserve

Hewitt, Mark, ÏRepresentational Forms and Modes of Conception: An Approach to the History of Architectural DrawingÓ, in Journal of Architectural Education, vol. 39, no. 2, Winter 1985. ([s] 720 J8 A7 E2)

*Herbert, Daniel, ÏStudy Drawings in Architectural Design: Their Properties as a Graphic MediumÓ in Journal of Architectural Education, Winter 1988, v.41, no. 2, p. 26-38. ([s] 720 J8 A7 E2)

Fraser and Henmi, Envisioning Architecture: An Analysis of Drawing. Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1994. Chapter 7: ÏDesign DrawingsÓ. (720.289)

Physical Models & Spatial Experience
Porter, T., How Architects Visualize, Chapter 2, Sensations of Space.

*Bloomer, Kent, Body, Memory and Architecture, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977. (720 B65)

VI. Multiple images

Still Combinations: Juxtapositions and Multiples
*Tufte, op. cit., Chapter 4, ÏSmall MultiplesÓ.

Depicting Movement: Artistic Methods
*Arnheim, Rudolph, Art & Visual Perception, University of California Press, 1974, Chapter VII: Movement. (701.15 A74)

Hockney, David, ThatÌs the way I see it, Thames and Hudson, London, 1993. (754.642B H68 S7)

Steinberg, Leo, Other Criteria: Confrontations with 20th C. Art, Oxford Univ. Press, 1975, Chapter 6, ÏThe Algerian Women and Picasso At Large.Ó, pp. 124-235. (709.64 S81)

*Tufte, op. cit., Chapter 6, ÏNarratives of Time & SpaceÓ.

VII. Technological Innovations and Visual Thinking

*McLuhan, M. 1964. Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man,New York: McGraw-HIll Book Company. (301.243 M16)

*Benjamin, Walter, ÏThe Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical ReproductionÓ in Illuminations (H. Arendt, ed.), Schocken Books, 1969. (839.1 B468 B42 Z)

Past Innovations:

Photography
Barthes, Roland, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography, Vintage, London, 1993. (770.1 B2)

Abrams, Janet, ÏAvailable for ViewingÓ in Martin Caiger-SmithÌs Sitework: Architecture in photography since early modernism, London: PhotographerÌs Gallery, 1991. (778.94)

Depicting Movement: Technical Developments
Braun, Marta, Picturing Time: The Work of Etienne-Jules Marey (1830- 1904), The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 1992. (770.944B MB B) Early photographic attempts to capture motion.

Crary, Jonathan, Techniques of the observer: On Vision and Modernity in the 19th Century, MIT Press, 1990. Developments leading up to cinema. (709.63 C89)

Arnheim, Rudolf, Film as Art, Faber and Faber, London, 1958 (791.4301 A7)

Collage
*Honnef, Klaus, "Symbolic Form as a Vivid Cognitive Principle: An Essay on Montage" in Pachnicke, Peter and Honneff, Klaus eds., John Heartfield, Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1992 (770.943B H43 P)

Ades, Dawn, Photo Montage, London: Thames & Hudson, 1986. (778.8 A2)

Image Processing: Relative Truth & Social Implications
*Mitchell, William J., The Reconfigured Eye: Truth in the post-photographic era. MIT Press, 1992. (621.367) Digital photography

Digital Design & Visualization Tools
*Mitchell, William J. and M. McCullough, Digital Design Media, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1995. (620.00420285 M6)

Bruegmann, Robert, ÏThe Pencil and the Electronic Sketchboard: Architectural Representation and the ComputerÓ, in Blau & KaufmanÌs Architecture and Its Image. (History of how computers have been used or not used in architecture, how computer imagery has shaped architecture)

Jones, Beverly, ÏComputer Imagery: Imitation and Representation of RealitiesÓ in Leonardo, Computer Art in Context Supplemental Issue, pp. 31-38, 1989. Leonard: (Oxford, England) Pergamon Press. ([s] 705 L5)

Gross, Mark D., ÏThe Fat Pencil, the Cocktail Napkin, and the Slide LibraryÓ, in Re-connecting, Proceedings from ACADIAÌ94, St. Louis, Missouri.

Herbert, Daniel, ÏA Critical Analysis of Design Processes and Media: Applications for Computer Aided DesignÓ, in Re-connecting, Proceedings from ACADIAÌ94, St. Louis, Missouri.

Novitski, B.J., ÏFreedom of FormÓ in Architecture (Washington, D.C.), August 1994, pp. 107-111. ([s] 720 A5 I5)

VIII. Virtual Space

Visionary Images
Harbison, Robert, The Built, the Unbuilt and the Unbuildable, Thames and Hudson, Chapter 6, ÏUnbuildable BuildingsÓ. (720.1 H25)

Frisia, Emilio, ÏNew Representative Methods for Real and Imaginary EnvironmentsÓ in Leonardo, periodical.

Networked Virtual Communities
Wojtowicz, J., et al., ÏAspects of Asynchronous and Distributed Design CollaborationÓ in Wojtowicz, J. (ed.), Virtual Design Studio, Hong Kong University Press, 1994.

Jacobs, Karrie, ÏWaiting for the MillenniumÓ, four part series in Metropolis(N.Y.), May 1994, July/August 1994, October 1994, and December 1994.

Jacobs, Karrie, ÏOn-lineÓ in Metropolis(N.Y.), June 1995.

Hypermedia/Multimedia
Digital word: text-based computing in the humanities, MIT Press,1993. (001.30285505)

Hyper/text/theory, John Hopkins University Press 1994. (801.93 H99)

Virtual Reality
Coyne, Richard, ÏHeidegger and Virtual Reality: The Implications of HeideggerÌs Thinking for Computer RepresentationsÓ in Leonardo, V.27, No.1, 1994.

Gibson, William, Neuromancer, Ace Science Fiction*The Berkeley Publishing Group, 1994.

Heim, Michael, The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality, Oxford University Press, 1993. (006 H4)

Books on Technique:

Baker, Robin, Designing the Future: The Computer in Architecture and Design, Thames and Hudson, 1993. Strong examples of computer graphics. (620.00420285 B16)

Burger, Jeff, The Desktop Multimedia Handbook, Addison-Wesley , 1993. (621.3897 B95)

Fraser and Henmi, Envisioning Architecture: An Analysis of Drawing. Good with simple analysis. Black and white illustrations.

Knoll, Wolfgang and Hechinger, Martin, Architectural Models, McGraw Hill. Well- illustrated technique book. (720.22 K72)

Laseau, Paul, Visual Notes, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1984. Using sketches as analytic tools and for the early design process. (720.28 C95)

Luscombe & Peden, Picturing Architecture, Craftsman House, 1992. Graphic presentation techniques in Australian Architectural Practice. Good variety.

Porter, Tom, Architectural Drawing Master Class, 1993. Slick contemporary examples

Porter, Tom, Architectural Drawing, VNR 1990 (720.284 P84a)

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