The Projective Cast: Architecture and Its Three Geometries | 
 enlarge | Author: Robin Evans
Publisher: The MIT Press
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Pages: 451
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Dimensions (in): 10.7 x 8.4 x 1
ISBN: 0262550385
Dewey Decimal Number: 720
EAN: 9780262550383
Publication Date: August 28, 2000
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Winner of the Spiro Kostof Book Award given by the Society of Architectural Historians.
In this book, completed shortly before his death, 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. He shows that geometry does not always play a stolid and dormant role but, in fact, may be an active agent in the links between thinking and imagination, imagination and drawing, and drawing and building.
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Typical Evans. Clear, breath takingly obvious. July 28, 1999
15 out of 19 found this review helpful
Robin Evans has a knack of getting right to the point of many a subject with expertise. Extremely versatile and knowledgable, he uses this base to write profoundly. Evans takes criticism to another level by getting to 'the obvious' quickly, then building on pre conceived theory with frightening clarity to form an original alternative view. This is a marvelously laid out book with fantastic illustrations and plates from Renaissance history to Eisenman. He is not caught up in the hype of self-preserving discourse or traditional methods of interrogation. The book has a wealth of information that acts like a reference book. So easy to read and so refreshing in opinion. RIP Robin, this is a classic work.
A must read! July 4, 2001
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book is a must read for any architect interested in the geometries and shapes of buildings (which I hope is every architect) If you have second thoughts about buying it, buy it... it is informative, entertaining the diagrams and pictures are beautiful and it will take 2 (amazing) months to go through it.
Evans should be emulated May 5, 2008
Ron Jelaco (Seattle, USA)
There have been times when after reading an assignment from this book, my students will ask me how the subject-matter was pertinent to what we had been studying. I tell them: in no way. I just want them to read Robin Evans so that they can learn how to write. No one writes like Evans.
 must buy March 13, 2006
arch book
While Translations from Drawing to Building is perhaps Evans' more often referenced publication, The Projective Cast is even better.
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