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The Grand Work of Fiction: The Detail as Narrative
A practising architect and Professor at the University of Virginia School of Architecture, Edward Ford is the leading expert on the architectural detail and the author of three seminal books on the subject. Here Ford explains that, though the decision ‘to abstract or to articulate’ architecture ‘may be largely subconscious’, it is never ‘arbitrary’. For ‘in the well‐designed building, it is done in the service of the creation of a larger narrative, a unity of vision’.
The Grand Work of Fiction: The Detail as Narrative
A practising architect and Professor at the University of Virginia School of Architecture, Edward Ford is the leading expert on the architectural detail and the author of three seminal books on the subject. Here Ford explains that, though the decision ‘to abstract or to articulate’ architecture ‘may be largely subconscious’, it is never ‘arbitrary’. For ‘in the well‐designed building, it is done in the service of the creation of a larger narrative, a unity of vision’.
The Grand Work of Fiction: The Detail as Narrative
Ford, Edward (author)
Architectural Design ; 84 ; 26-35
2014-07-01
10 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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The Grand Work of Fiction: The Detail as Narrative
| British Library Online Contents | 2014
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| Taylor & Francis Verlag | 2013
| British Library Online Contents | 2013