Diagrams: Tropes, Tools, Abstract Machines by Christoph Lueder published

Diagrams: Tropes, Tools and Abstract Machines presents a series of seminal diagrams that architects have used to develop ideas and design buildings.

It examines the pervasive roles of diagrams as analytical, generative, narrative and critical devices that draw on thick cultural milieus and that operate at personal, architectural and urban scales. What are potentials of diagrams beyond representation, as situated cultural practices, corporeal engagement and choreographic script, as instruments of speculation and invention, as manifestation of ideas and incrimination of ideology, as abstract machines in scenarios of allopoïesis, autopoïesis and cosmopoïesis? 

Dr Christoph Lueder is Associate Professor in Architecture and Urbanism at the Kingston School of Art, a member of the Register research group, and director of PGR research in architecture and landscape.

The book has 240 pages and is available to buy for 19 euros here