Includes bibliographical references and index.

Questions of representation: the poetic origin of architecture / Alberto Pérez-Gómez -- A reflection on paper and its virtues within the material and invisible factures of architecture / Marco Frascari -- Imagination and architectural representations / Nader El-Bizri -- Drawing Adam's navel : the problem of disegno as creative tension between the visible and knowledgeable / Raymond Quek -- Drawn to scale : the imaginative inhabitation of architectural drawings / Paul Emmons -- The cultural context of design and the corporeal dynamism of drawing as the foundations for the imagination of construction / Qi Zhu -- Architecture's twinned body : building and drawing / Federica Goffi -- Translucent and fluid : Piranesi's impossible plan / Teresa Stoppani -- Contemplating the unfinished / Nicholas Temple and Soumyen Bandyopadhyay -- Le Corbusier's spirals : figural planning and technique in architectural design / Antony Moulis -- Forms in the dark : nature, waste and digital imitation / Richard Coyne -- Concealment, delay and topology in the creation of wondrous drawing / Donald Kunze -- A digital renaissance : reconnecting architectural representation and cinematic visual effects / Mathanraj Ratinam -- Drawing air : the visual culture of bio-political imaging / David Gissen -- "Higher" being and "higher" drawing : Claude Bragdon's "fourth dimension" and the use of computer technology in design / Christina Malathouni -- Seeing time/writing place / Jane Rendell -- Marks in space : thinking about drawing / Judith Mottram -- Drawing lines of confrontation / Catherine Hamel -- Weather architecture, weather drawing / Jonathan Hill -- Drawing on light / Sam Ridgway -- Post-secular architecture : material, intellectual, spiritual models / Bradley Starkey -- Specifying materials : language, matter and the conspiracy of muteness / Katie Lloyd Thomas -- Architecture as image-space-text / Betty Nigianni -- Acts of imagination and reflection in architectural design / Peg Rawes -- In the corner of perception : spatial experience in distraction / Katja Grillner.