The Projective Cast: Architecture and Its Three Geometries

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Robin Evans recasts the idea of the relationship between geometry and architecture, drawing on mathematics, engineering, art history, and aesthetics to uncover processes in the imagining and realizing of architectural form.

Anyone reviewing the history of architectural theory, Robin Evans observes, must conclude that architects do not produce geometry, but relatively consume it. In this long-awaited book, completed shortly before its writer’s death, Evans recasts the idea of the relationship between geometry and architecture, drawing on mathematics, engineering, art history, and aesthetics to uncover processes in the imagining and realizing of architectural form. He shows that geometry does not all the time play a stolid and dormant role but, if truth be told, may be an active agent in the links between thinking and imagination, imagination and drawing, drawing and building. He suggests a theory of architecture that is based on the many transactions between architecture and geometry as evidenced in individual buildings, largely in Europe, from the fifteenth to the twentieth century.

From the Henry VII chapel at Westminster Abbey to Le Corbusier’s Ronchamp, from Raphael’s S. Eligio and the work of Piero della Francesca and Philibert Delorme to Guarino Guarini and the painters of cubism, Evans explores the geometries involved, asking whether they’re if truth be told the stable underpinnings of the creative, intuitive, or rhetorical aspects of architecture. In particular he concentrates on the history of architectural projection, the geometry of vision that has turn out to be an internalized and pervasive pictorial method of construction and that, until now, has played only a small part in the development of architectural theory.

Evans describes the ambivalent role that pictures play in architecture and urges resistance to the concept that pictures provide all that architects need, suggesting that there is a lot more within the scope of the architect’s vision of a project than what may also be drawn. He defines the different fields of projective transmission that concern architecture, and investigates the ambiguities of projection and the interaction of imagination with projection and its metaphors.

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