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Begin Again. Fail Better: Preliminary Drawings in Architecture engages with one of the principal activities of the architect in the process of design: drawing by hand. It explores the act of designing through a focus on beginnings. Architects try, fail, try again, fail better until they start to move in the direction that ultimately becomes a building – or not. This book brings together some 180 preliminary architecture drawings. More than 50 contemporary Swiss architecture firms each contributed two pieces that reveal something of their individual approach and understanding of architecture. This selection is enhanced by historical works by Swiss and European architects that come from four significant British and Swiss archival collections, dating from the 20th and back to the 16th century. The illustrations are complemented by essays providing a critical and historical framework, as well as a conversation engaging with the conditions and importance of failure within the design process. Brief Interludes by international architects, archivists and teachers, introducing a range of perspectives, round out this beautiful volume. AUTHORS: Dorothee Messmer is director of Kunstmuseum Olten, where Katja Herlach serves as a curator and deputy director. Helen Thomas is a London- and Swiss-based architect, curator, and publicist. SELLING POINTS: . A beautiful, lavishly illustrated exploration of the act of designing in architecture through a focus on beginnings . Offers a fascinating survey of contemporary Swiss architectural practice through a very specific lens . Some 180 full colour illustrations combine contemporary drawings with exemplary historical pieces from important British and Swiss collections . Critical and historical essays examine topics of creative practice . Brief Interludes by international architects, archivists and achers offer a wide range of perspectives 180 colour illustrations

Table of Contents:
6 Itroduction 8 Begin Again. Fail Better, Helen Thomas and Marco Bakker interview Manuel Montenegro 14 Catalogue of Drawings 38 Interlude, Niall Hobhouse 58 Interlude, Charles Pictet 82 Interlude, Adam Caruso 104 Interlude, Ludovica Molo 128 Interlude, Irina Davidovici 150 Interlude, Stéphanie Bender and Philippe Béboux 174 Interlude, Matt Page 196 Interlude, Pier Vittorio Aureli 198 Greater Than All the Towers in the World, or The (hand) drawing as a link between art and architecture, Dorothee Messmer 202 Sense, Sensibility, and the Terms of Failure, Helen Thomas 208 The Element of Play in Drawing, Marco Bakker 210 Some Points on Design and Drawing, Five texts by Álvaro Siza selected by Manuel Montenegro, including a recent statement on beginning a design

About the Author :
Dorothee Messmer is director of Kunstmuseum Olten, where Katja Herlach serves as a curator and deputy director. Helen Thomas is a London- and Swiss-based architect, curator, and publicist.

Review :
"With its simple hook based on a snippet from Samuel Beckett's Worstward Ho, Begin Again. Fail Better shouldn't have a hard time finding its audience. . . . One doesn't need to look for the mistakes or failures in the drawings to appreciate what the curators/editors have assembled."-- "A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books"


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9783038603757
  • Publisher: Park Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Park Books
  • Height: 225 mm
  • No of Pages: 218
  • Spine Width: 24 mm
  • Weight: 750 gr
  • ISBN-10: 3038603759
  • Publisher Date: 17 Oct 2024
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Preliminary Drawings in Architecture and Art
  • Width: 300 mm


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