{"product_id":"stories-from-architecture-behind-the-lines-at-drawing-matter-paperback","title":"Stories from Architecture: Behind the Lines at Drawing Matter - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePhilippa Lewis\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAdrian Forty\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe imagined histories of twenty-five architectural drawings and models, told through reminiscences, stories, conversations, letters, and monologues.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEven when an architectural drawing does not show any human figures, we can imagine many different characters just off the page: architects, artists, onlookers, clients, builders, developers, philanthropists--working, observing, admiring, arguing. In \u003ci\u003eStories from Architecture\u003c\/i\u003e, Philippa Lewis captures some of these personalities through reminiscences, anecdotes, conversations, letters, and monologues that collectively offer the imagined histories of twenty-five architectural drawings. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSome of these untold stories are factual, like Frank Lloyd Wright's correspondence with a Wisconsin librarian regarding her $5,000 dream home, or letters written by the English architect John Nash to his irascible aristocratic client. Others recount a fictional, if credible, scenario by placing these drawings--and with them their characters--into their immediate social context. For instance, the dilemmas facing a Regency couple who are considering a move to a suburban villa; a request from the office of Richard Neutra for an assistant to measure Josef von Sternberg's Rolls-Royce so that the director's beloved vehicle might fit into the garage being designed by his architect; a teenager dreaming of a life away from parental supervision by gazing at a gadget-filled bachelor pad in \u003ci\u003ePlayboy\u003c\/i\u003e magazine; even a policeman recording the ground plans of the house of a murder scene. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe drawings, reproduced in color, are all sourced from the Drawing Matter collection in Somerset, UK, and are fascinating objects in themselves; but Lewis shifts our attention beyond the image to other possible histories that linger, invisible, beyond the page, and in the process animates not just a series of archival documents but the writing of architectural history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhilippa Lewis is a writer, photographer, and picture editor. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eA Dictionary of Ornament\u003c\/i\u003e (with Gillian Darley); \u003ci\u003eDetails: A Guide to House Design in Britain\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eEverything You Can Do in the Garden without Actually Gardening\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eEveryman's Castle\u003c\/i\u003e; and other books.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 216\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.55 x 8.98 x 5.98 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 19, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767732437280,"sku":"9780262543026","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/ad28895b64681592ff0f423cabb1fba4.webp?v=1780316316","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/stories-from-architecture-behind-the-lines-at-drawing-matter-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}