{"product_id":"stories-from-architecture-behind-the-lines-at-drawing-matter-9780262543026","title":"Stories from Architecture: Behind the Lines at Drawing Matter","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe imagined histories of twenty-five architectural drawings and models, told through reminiscences, stories, conversations, letters, and monologues.\u003c\/b\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. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\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. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-12580031\"\u003ePhilippa Lewis\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e MIT Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/19\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.97lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.98h x 5.98w x 0.55d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780262543026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0262543028\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-ARC\"\u003eArchitecture\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-ARC005000\"\u003eHistory | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-ARC\"\u003eArchitecture\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-ARC004000\"\u003eDesign, Drafting, Drawing \u0026amp; Presentation\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-ARC\"\u003eArchitecture\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-ARC001000\"\u003eCriticism\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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","brand":"MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42685251780845,"sku":"9780262543026","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_67b2edac-80c3-4e09-a174-11960eb84237.jpg?v=1649764789","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/stories-from-architecture-behind-the-lines-at-drawing-matter-9780262543026","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}