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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.
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
