Routledge Companion to Architectural Drawings and Models

<p>Architectural drawings and models are instruments of imagination communication and historical continuity. The role of drawings and models and their ownership placement and authorship in a ubiquitous digital age deserve careful consideration. Expanding on the well-established discussion of the translation from drawings to buildings this book fills a lacuna in current scholarship questioning the significance of the lives of drawings and models after construction. </p><p>Including emerging well-known and world-renowned scholars in the fields of architectural history and theory and curatorial practices the thirty-five contributions define recent research in four key areas: </p><ul> <li>drawing sites/sites of knowledge construction: drawing office construction site; </li> <li>the afterlife of drawings and models: archiving collecting displaying and exhibiting;</li> <li>tools of making: architectural representations and their apparatus over time; and</li> <li>the ethical responsibilities of collecting and archiving: authorship ownership copyrights and rights to copy. </li> </ul><p>The research covers a wide range of geographies and delves into the practices of such architects as Sir John Soane Superstudio Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc Frank Lloyd Wright Wajiro Kon Germán Samper Gnecco A+PS Mies van der Rohe and Renzo Piano.</p>