Building with Paper. The Materiality of Renaissance Architectural Drawings

Hardback, 176 pages, Size:180 x 265 mm, Illustrations:30 b/w, 60 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503591186. Summary The introduction of paper is one of the major innovations of Early Modern architecture, and it had profound effects on its design processes. Wider use of paper changed representational conventions, while communication networks were affected by the many implications of portability and reproducibility: circulation of models for study and design increased, and new possibilities of remote control of the building site emerged. The material dimensions of these practices are the subject of the present volume, which collects essays that engage with the manifold inter- and multi-medial complexities of Italian Renaissance architectural drawings on paper. TABLE OF CONTENTS Alina Payne Preface: Architecture and the End of Drawing Dario Donetti & Cara Rachele Introduction Morgan Ng An Impression Made on the Ground, Either in Dust or Paste or Snow : Mediums of Architectural Drawing at the Dawn of Paper-Based Design Jonathan Foote The Authorial Dimension of Paper: in Early Modern Architects' Modani Dario Donetti Into the Fold: Drawings on the Move from the Sangallo Archive Cara Rachele Spolia, Imitatio and Detail Drawings in the Circle of Antonio da Sangallo the Younger Giovanni Santucci The Use of Architectural Paper Models in Medici Florence Victoria Addona Mixing Media in Late Sixteenth-Century Florentine Architectural Design Marzia Faietti Epilogue Bibliography Abbreviations Index of Names