CONTENTS Illustration credits viii List of contributors x Acknowledgements xvii Introduction: models and drawings - the invisible nature of architecture Marco Frascari 1 Historical perspectives 9 Questions of representation: the poetic origin of architecture Alberto Perez-Gomez 11 A reflection on paper and its virtues within the material and invisible factures of architecture Marco Frascari 23 Imagination and architectural representations Nader EI-Bizri 34 Drawing Adam's navel: the problem of disegno as creative tension between the visible and knowledgeable Raymond Quek 43 Drawn to scale: the imaginative inhabitation of architectural drawings Paul Emmons 64 The cultural context of design and the corporeal dynamism of drawing as the foundations for the imagination of construction QiZhu 79 Architecture's twinned body: building and drawing Federica Goffi 88 Translucent and fluid: Piranesi's impossible plan Teresa Stoppani 99 Contemplating the unfinished Nicholas Temple and Soumyen Bandyopadhyay 109 Le Corbusier's spirals: figural planning and technique in architectural design Antony Moulis 120 Emergent realities 127 Forms in the dark: nature, waste and digital imitation Richard Coyne 129 Concealment, delay and topology in the creation of wondrous drawing Donald Kunze 137 A digital renaissance: reconnecting architectural representation and cinematic visual effects Mathanraj Ratinam 146 Drawing air: the visual culture of bio-political imaging David Gissen 159 'Higher' being and 'higher' drawing: Claude Bragdon's 'fourth dimension' and the use of computer technology in design Christina Malathouni 168 Critical dimensions 179 Seeing time/writing place Jane Rendell 183 Marks in space: thinking about drawing Judith Mottram 193 Drawing lines of confrontation Catherine Hamel 201 Weather architecture, weather drawing Jonathan Hill 209 Drawing on light Sam Ridgway 219 Post-secular architecture: material, intellectual, spiritual models Bradley Starkey 231 Specifying materials: language, matter and the conspiracy of muteness Katie Lloyd Thomas 242 Architecture as image-space-text Betty Nigianni 253 Acts of imagination and reflection in architectural design Peg Rawes 261 In the corner of perception: spatial experience in distraction Katja Grillner 270 Index 285