Points + Lines: Diagrams and Projects for the City
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- 9781568981550
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ARCH/NIE The Curves of Time | ARCH/ROS The Architecture of the City | ARCH/RUF Theatre and Architecture | ARCH/STA Points + Lines: Diagrams and Projects for the City | ARCH/SUM The Classical Language of Architecture | ARCH/TYR Aalto Utzon Fehn: Three Paradigms | ARCH/YER Orthographs : The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center |
It takes a critical view toward the current use of data mapping and visualization and calls for a return to traditional cartographic techniques to reimagine the manifestation and manipulation of the ground itself. Each of the ten chapters focuses on a single cartographic technique—sounding/spot elevation, isobath/contour, hachure/hatch, shaded relief, land classification, figure-ground, stratigraphic column, cross-section, line symbol, conventional sign—and illustrates it through beautiful maps and plans from notable designers and cartographers throughout history, from Leonardo da Vinci to James Corner Field Operations. Mohsen Mostafavi, dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design, introduces the book.