Tierney, A and Hayes, M (Eds).
(2024)
Between Design and Making: Architecture and craftsmanship, 1630–1760.
[Book].
UCL Press: London, UK.
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Abstract
The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries represent a high point in the intersection between design and workmanship. Skilled artisans, creative and technically competent agents within their own field, worked across a wide spectrum of practice that encompassed design, supervision and execution, and architects relied heavily on the experience they brought to the building site. Despite this, the bridge between design and tacit artisanal knowledge has been an underarticulated factor in the architectural achievement of the early modern era. Building on the shift towards a collaborative and qualitative analysis of architectural production, Between Design and Making re-evaluates the social and professional fabric that binds design to making, and reflects on the asymmetry that has emerged between architecture and craft. Combining analysis of buildings, archival material and eighteenth-century writings, the authors draw out the professional, pedagogical and social links between architectural practice and workmanship. They argue for a process-oriented understanding of architectural production, exploring the obscure centre ground of the creative process: the scribbled, sketched, hatched and annotated beginnings of design on the page; the discussions, arguments and revisions in the forging of details; and the grappling with stone, wood and plaster on the building site that pushed projects from conception to completion.
| Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| Title: | Between Design and Making: Architecture and craftsmanship, 1630–1760 |
| ISBN-13: | 9781800086937 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.9781800086937 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800086937 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Text © Contributors, 2024 Collection © Editors, 2024 Images © copyright holders named in captions, 2024 Foreword © copyright Christine Casey, 2024 Any third-party material in this book is not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence. Details of the copyright ownership and permitted use of third-party material is given in the image (or extract) credit lines. If you would like to reuse any third-party material not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright owner. This book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-commercial Non-derivative 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), https://creativecommons. org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. This licence allows you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work for personal and non-commercial use provided author and publisher attribution is clearly stated. Attribution should include the following information: Tierney, A. and Hayes, M. (eds). 2024. Between Design and Making: Architecture and craftsmanship, 1630–1760. London: UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800086937 Further details about Creative Commons licences are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ |
| Keywords: | Architecture, Craft, Design, Making, Conservation |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10192433 |
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