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Draw in order to see : a cognitive history of architectural design / Mark Alan Hewitt.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: [Novato, California] : ORO Editions, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 295 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1943532834
  • 9781943532834
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 729 23
LOC classification:
  • NA2750 .H46 2020
Contents:
New thinking about design -- Brains, bodies, and images -- Mimesis, memory, and enactment -- Crafting, depicting, and assembling -- The discovery of depiction -- Scenography and craft in the Baroque -- Teaching design in the Modern Era -- Engineering, science, and the machine -- Materials, models, and montage -- Conceptual architecture and the digital void -- Design with embodiment -- Twelve steps.
Summary: "'Draw In Order to See' is the first book to survey the history of architectural design using the latest research in neuroscience and embodied cognition. At present, among the dozens of books on architectural drawing, design theory, methodologies, model making, CAAD, and planning, there is no book that specifically looks at the history of representation as a reflection of cognitive habits among individuals and groups of architects. As a historian and a practicing architect, Mark Hewitt has a unique point of view, that has enabled him to study the design practices of many architects during various eras, beginning in the Renaissance and stretching into the late 20th century. Hewitt has dedicated more than 30 years to writing about the process of conception (or visualisation) of buildings in the brain. Researchers on that subject now consistently cite one of his earliest studies on drawings and modes of conception.0This book pursues that line of inquiry with the new discoveries about visual perception, cognition and embodiment that have revolutionised brain science. Hewitt believes that looking historically at how architects have designed, a brain-based practice developed during and after the Renaissance, once drawings became sophisticated enough to provide feedback for perception and memory in the cortex. His contention is that disegno, as invented in Italy during the time of Leonardo and Michelangelo, initiated that system, and that it was translated into a curriculum during the rise of Beaux Arts institutions prior to the 1920s, after which the Bauhaus system replaced it completely with what we have today."--Publisher
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-288) and index.

New thinking about design -- Brains, bodies, and images -- Mimesis, memory, and enactment -- Crafting, depicting, and assembling -- The discovery of depiction -- Scenography and craft in the Baroque -- Teaching design in the Modern Era -- Engineering, science, and the machine -- Materials, models, and montage -- Conceptual architecture and the digital void -- Design with embodiment -- Twelve steps.

"'Draw In Order to See' is the first book to survey the history of architectural design using the latest research in neuroscience and embodied cognition. At present, among the dozens of books on architectural drawing, design theory, methodologies, model making, CAAD, and planning, there is no book that specifically looks at the history of representation as a reflection of cognitive habits among individuals and groups of architects. As a historian and a practicing architect, Mark Hewitt has a unique point of view, that has enabled him to study the design practices of many architects during various eras, beginning in the Renaissance and stretching into the late 20th century. Hewitt has dedicated more than 30 years to writing about the process of conception (or visualisation) of buildings in the brain. Researchers on that subject now consistently cite one of his earliest studies on drawings and modes of conception.0This book pursues that line of inquiry with the new discoveries about visual perception, cognition and embodiment that have revolutionised brain science. Hewitt believes that looking historically at how architects have designed, a brain-based practice developed during and after the Renaissance, once drawings became sophisticated enough to provide feedback for perception and memory in the cortex. His contention is that disegno, as invented in Italy during the time of Leonardo and Michelangelo, initiated that system, and that it was translated into a curriculum during the rise of Beaux Arts institutions prior to the 1920s, after which the Bauhaus system replaced it completely with what we have today."--Publisher

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