What Architects Desire gathers over 200 original drawings from the German contribution to the 12th Venice Architecture Biennale, each made in response to a single question: what are you longing for?
About This Book
Commissioned as Germany's response to the 12th Architecture Biennale in Venice, this volume assembles drawings from more than 200 architects — each an intimate, unfiltered reply to the prompt of desire. The result is a document of extraordinary range: some drawings communicate instantly, others demand slow, contemplative reading. What unites them is a specificity of longing, something concrete rather than abstract. The collection also makes a quiet argument about the architectural sketch itself — a practice that had retreated to the margins of digital production — and restores it to the centre of architectural thinking. Essential for anyone interested in drawing culture, process, and the interior life of the profession.
Key Features
- 400 pages of original architectural drawings spanning a wide range of pictorial languages and representational approaches
- Contributions from more than 200 architects
- Published by Springer Verlag, [Details available upon request]
What You'll Discover
- How individual architects translate abstract longing into concrete drawn form — and how widely those translations diverge
- The architectural sketch reconsidered as a primary mode of thought rather than a by-product of the design process
- The full spectrum of contemporary drawing culture across a large cross-section of German architectural practice
- How a single curatorial prompt — desire — can function as a programme, producing both unity of intention and radical diversity of response
About the Author
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Specifications
- Format: Linen over boards
- Pages: 400
- Dimensions: 150 x 110 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9783709103289
- Publisher: Springer Verlag
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Architects, architectural historians, and drawing enthusiasts interested in process, representation, and the role of the sketch in contemporary practice.