A new collection of writings of the most famous and eminent of architectural historians: James S. Ackerman. The modes and techniques of architectural representation from Vitruvius to the present day.
[Architecture and drawing. Representation from Vitruvius to Gehry]. A new collection of writings of the most famous and eminent of architectural historians: James S. Ackerman. The modes and techniques of architectural representation from Vitruvius to the present day. The volume, part of the “Architects and architectures” series, features a series of contributions written over the last ten years by the American scholar. The essays outline the history of architectural representation through the notions of invention and model, imitation and convention. Starting with the figures of Vitruvius and Leonardo da Vinci, then Daniele Barbaro and Palladio, all the way to Thomas Jefferson, Ackerman retraces the origins of architectural drawing. One chapter is devoted to the birth of architectural photography. The book concludes with wide-ranging reflections on convention and rhetoric in drawing, through analysis of representation modes.