{"title":"Annotation as Review: Graphic Thinking in Enric Miralles’ Ph.D. Thesis","authors":"Javier Fernández Contreras","doi":"10.1080/20507828.2021.1946746","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Enric Miralles’ Ph.D. thesis was first presented in November 1987 at the Barcelona School of Architecture in two small volumes, the first one containing thirty-one pages of text and the second sixty-one illustrations. The thesis, entitled Cosas vistas a izquierda y derecha – sin gafas (“Things Seen to the Right and Left, Without Glasses”), focuses on the relationship between annotation and thought in the notebooks of Grand Tour travelers. Through it, Miralles sought a thought process that was inseparable from graphic expression; the text became more the construction of a personal reflection than a strictly academic discourse. This was why the dissertation was initially rejected. Two subsequent enlargements accounting for more than 200 pages, Miralles’ insistence and his evident erudition finally led to its acceptance. It proved to be the longest document that Miralles ever wrote, and an essential insight into his design method in subsequent years.","PeriodicalId":42146,"journal":{"name":"Architecture and Culture","volume":"10 1","pages":"272 - 283"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1000,"publicationDate":"2021-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Architecture and Culture","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20507828.2021.1946746","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"ARCHITECTURE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract Enric Miralles’ Ph.D. thesis was first presented in November 1987 at the Barcelona School of Architecture in two small volumes, the first one containing thirty-one pages of text and the second sixty-one illustrations. The thesis, entitled Cosas vistas a izquierda y derecha – sin gafas (“Things Seen to the Right and Left, Without Glasses”), focuses on the relationship between annotation and thought in the notebooks of Grand Tour travelers. Through it, Miralles sought a thought process that was inseparable from graphic expression; the text became more the construction of a personal reflection than a strictly academic discourse. This was why the dissertation was initially rejected. Two subsequent enlargements accounting for more than 200 pages, Miralles’ insistence and his evident erudition finally led to its acceptance. It proved to be the longest document that Miralles ever wrote, and an essential insight into his design method in subsequent years.
摘要Enric Miralles的博士论文于1987年11月在巴塞罗那建筑学院首次发表,分为两小卷,第一卷包含三十一页的文本,第二卷包含六十一幅插图。这篇题为“Cosas vistas a izquierda y derecha–sin gavas”的论文(《看向左右的东西,没有眼镜》),重点研究了Grand Tour旅行者笔记本中注释与思想之间的关系。通过它,米拉莱斯寻求一种与图形表达密不可分的思维过程;文本更多地成为一种个人反思的建构,而不是一种严格意义上的学术话语。这就是论文最初被拒绝的原因。随后的两次放大版长达200多页,Miralles的坚持和他明显的学识最终使其被接受。事实证明,这是米拉莱斯写过的最长的文件,也是他在随后几年的设计方法的重要见解。
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Architecture and Culture, the international award winning, peer-reviewed journal of the Architectural Humanities Research Association, investigates the relationship between architecture and the culture that shapes and is shaped by it. Whether culture is understood extensively, as shared experience of everyday life, or in terms of the rules and habits of different disciplinary practices, Architecture and Culture asks how architecture participates in and engages with it – and how both culture and architecture might be reciprocally transformed. Architecture and Culture publishes exploratory research that is purposively imaginative, rigorously speculative, visually and verbally stimulating. From architects, artists and urban designers, film-makers, animators and poets, from historians of culture and architecture, from geographers, anthropologists and other social scientists, from thinkers and writers of all kinds, established and new, it solicits essays, critical reviews, interviews, fictional narratives in both images and words, art and building projects, and design hypotheses. Architecture and Culture aims to promote a conversation between all those who are curious about what architecture might be and what it can do.