Grimoire of Architecture
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Symposium on the work of Marco Frascari
Complementing
the Adelaide Festival of Arts 2004 Architecture Symposium
which featured Professor
Frascari as an international keynote
speaker
The Symposium 'Grimoire of Architecture' highlighted the role of the Architecture Museum as a resource for architectural research, using some of the drawings for analysis.
Addresses, discussions and workshops centred on architectural drawing, with eminent architectural theorist and visiting scholar Professor Marco Frascari leading the dialogue, and other invited scholars responding with their own position papers. Professor Frascari is perhaps best known for his seminal work 'The Tell the Tale Detail' published in 1981. His later research explores the links between drawing and building.
Invited
academics included Professor Steven Frith, Dr John Macarthur, Dr Sarah
Treadwell, Dr Peter Kohane, Dr William Taylor, Dr Paul Walker, Dr Scott
Drake, Justine Clark, Richard Blythe, Sam Ridgeway, Stephen Loo,
Jane Lawrence and
Sean
Pickersgill.
Symposium participants included architectural practitioners, artists
and alumni.
Synopsis: a short storytelling regarding the nature of architectural drawings
Marco Frascari
Architecture is a virtue by which humans interact spatially, tectonically and culturally with a region that they modify to their advantage as a proper expression of their humanity. Drawing is the fundative act of architecture. Drawing and architecture were there before building took place. Architectural drawing commenced when humans found a support and began to trace lines to figure out, or better, to build their cosmologies by making visible what is invisible in theoretical thinking. An architectural drawing is first and foremost something which stands for something else. It is a formal system for making explicit certain entities and specifications regarding construction of buildings and architectural construing. The result is that architectural drawings are the results of four interlacing cosmospoiesis.
- The world of the represented
- The world of the representation
- The world of who has created the representation
- The world of who is reading the representation
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