CONTENTS Introduction: Diagrams 8 Introduction: Histories and Theories of the Diagrams of Architecture 18 Mark Garcia PART 1: HISTORIES AND THEORIES OF THE DIAGRAMS OF ARCHITECTURE 46 Parti: Diagrams Diagrams of Diagrams: Architectural Abstraction and Modern Representation 54Anthony Vidler Scientific Management and the Birth of the Functional Diagram 64 Hyungmin Pai Urban Diagrams and Urban Modelling David 80 Grahame Shane Dummy Text, or the Diagrammatic Basis of Contemporary Architecture Robert 88 E Somol Diagram: An Original Scene of Writing 92 Peter Eisenman Poetics of the Ideogram 104 Leon van Schaik Diagrams in Multisensory and Phenomenological Architecture 112 Joy Monice Malnar and Frank Vodvarka The Hammer and the Song 122 Sanford Kwinter PART 2: MULTIDISCIPLINAR/DIMENSIONS OF THE DIAGRAMS OF ARCHITECTURE 128 Part II: Diagrams Diagramming the Interior 134 Mark Taylor Diagrams in Landscape Architecture ]acky Bowring and Simon Swaffield Inhabiting the Forest of Symbols: From Diagramming the City to the City as Diagram Brian 152 McGrath Diagrams and their Future in Urban Design Peter 162 A Hall Diagrams in Structural Engineering: Applied Diagrams - Engineering Precision 170 Hanif Kara Spatial Notation and the Magical Operations of Collage in the Post-Digital Age 178 NeilSpiller PART 3: ARCHiTfiCTS OF THE DIAGRAMS OF ARCHITECTURE 186 Part III: Diagrams The Diagrams of Bernard Tschumi 194 Bernard Tschumi (Bernard Tschumi Architects) interviewed by Mark Garcia The Diagram and the Becoming Unmotivated of the Sign204 Peter Eisenman (Eisenman Architects) 204 Expressive Abstractions: The Diagrams of Will Alsop Will Alsop interviewed by Mark Garcia 214 Diagrams 222 Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos (UNStudio) Diagramming the Contemporary: OMA's Little Helper in the Quest for the New 228 Wouter Deen and Udo Garritzmann (DMA) Between Ideas and Matters: Icons, Indexes, Diagrams, Drawings and Graphs 236 Alejandro Zaera-Polo (Foreign Office Architects) Metacity/Datatown 244 Winy Maas (MVRDV) Atlas of Novel Tectonics 250 Jesse Reiser and Nanako Umemoto (Reiser + Umemoto} Parametric Diagrams 260 Patrik Schumacher (Zaha Hadid Architects) NOX Diagrams 270 Lars Spuybroek (NOX) PART 4: EPILOGUES 282 Part IV: Diagrams Architectural Evolution: The Pulsations of Time 288 Charles Jencks Epilogue (A Beginning of other Diagrams of Architecture and the Futures of the Diagrams of Architecture) 310 Mark Garcia Select Bibliography 317 Index 318