Visual research methods in architecture / Igea Troiani and Suzanne Ewing.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

ProQuest (Firm)

Troiani, Igea, editor.

Ewing, Suzanne, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (444 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol, England : Intellect Ltd, [2021]

Summary:

This book offers a distinctive approach to the use of visual methodologies for qualitative architectural research. It presents a diverse selection of ways for the architect or architectural researcher to use their gaze as part of their research practice for the purpose of visual literacy. Its contributors explore and use, "critical visualizations," which employ observation and socio-cultural critique through visual creations--texts, drawings, diagrams, paintings, visual texts, photography, film, and their hybrid forms--to research architecture, landscape design, and interior architecture. The visual methods intersect with those used in ethnography, anthropology, visual culture, and media studies. In presenting a range of interdisciplinary approaches, 'Visual Research Methods in Architecture' opens up territory for new forms of visual architectural scholarship.

Contents:

Front Cover

Half-title Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Introduction: Visual research methods and 'critical visuality'

Part I - Drawings and diagrams: Disciplinary seeing and knowing

1. Is the plan dying?

2. Analogical Images: Aldo Rossi's Autobiografia Scientifica

3. How to draw a line when the world is moving: Architectural education in times of urgent imagination

4. Drawing as being: Moving beyond ways of knowing, modes of attention and habitus

5. Learning to see: Otto Neurath's Visual Autobiography

6. Duration and anexactitude: What is at stake with data-based urban drawing in research?

Part II - Photography: Presence and positioning as a researcher

7. Looking at photographs: Thinking about architecture

8. Architecture's discursive space: Photography

9. Desert Cities

10. Visual methodology on display: Taking photographs of Separation

11. Visaginas: Looking at the town through photography

12. Writing with pictures: Reconsidering Aby Warburg's Bilderatlas in the context of architectural scholarship, education and Google Images

Part III - Film: Affinities and appropriations for researching contemporary culture

13. Next to nothing: Psychogeography and the 'film essay'

14. Ciné-Cento: Eisenstein's visual methodology and the space of film

15. Constructing an architectural phenomenography through film

16. An animated portrait of Casa Malaparte: Filmic practice as design research in architecture

17. Exploring, explaining and speaking in tongues: Visual scholarship and architectural education

18. The plasmatic image: Experimental practices between film and architecture

Part IV - Miscellaneous mixed modes and new media

19. Visual agency: Participatory painting as a method for spatial negotiation.

20. 'just painting': Performative painting as visual discourse

21. Visual heuristics for colour design

22. Digitally stitching stereoscopic vision

23. Audio-visual instruments and multi-dimensional architecture

24. Kaleidoscopic drawings: Sights and sites in the drawing of the city

Notes on Contributors

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Troiani, Igea Visual Research Methods in Architecture

ISBN:

1-78938-188-6

1-78938-187-8