Direkt zum Inhalt

Warenkorb

  • Tom Holert (Hg.)

    Pierre Bourdieu. Fragen zur Kunst für und mit Studierenden…

  • Dahr Jamail, Stan Rushworth

    Wir stehen in der Mitte der Unendlichkeit. Indigene Stimmen…

  • Lauren Wager, Sophia Naureen Ahmad

    Fashion Palettes. Color Inspiration, Meaning & Mood

  • Stavros Stavrides

    The Politics of Urban Potentiality. Spatial Patterns of…

  • Ilya Zdanevich

    Ilya Zdanevich - Iliazd. Berlin Khaltura 1922

  • Larisa Reisner

    The Decembrists

  • Dominique Gauzin-Müller, Anna Heringer

    Anna Heringer. Form Follows Love. Intuitiv bauen - von…

  • Dennis Brzek, Junia Thiede

    In Medias Res #1: Histories Read Across

  • Dennis Brzek, Junia Thiede, Julian…

    In Medias Res #2: Architecture in Motion

  • Dennis Brzek, Junia Thiede

    In Medias Res #3: Postproductions

  • Angela McRobbie (Ed.)

    Ulrike Ottinger. Film, Art and the Ethnographic Imagination

  • Ulysses Voelker, Michael Schmitz

    Was Kommunikationsdesign kann. Prinzipien, Inspirationen,…

  • Ultra Studio

    Landscape Goes Domestic. Ultra Studio

  • Oda Pälmke

    Repertoire, Oda Pälmke, Nr. 1–6

  • e-flux

    e-flux Index #2

  • Matteo Pasquinelli

    Das Auge des Meisters. Eine Sozialgeschichte Künstlicher…

  • Kate Crawford

    Atlas der KI. Die materielle Wahrheit hinter den neuen…

  • Kathryn Yusoff

    Geologic Life. Inhuman Intimacies and the Geophysics of Race

  • Nuraini Juliastuti

    Commons Museums. Pedagogies for Taking Ownership of What is…

  • Adam Greenfield

    Lifehouse. Taking Care of Ourselves in a World on Fire

  • Moises Puente (Ed.)

    Classroom, a teenage view

  • Ulrich Bröckling, Susanne Krasmann und…

    Glossar der Gegenwart 2.0

  • Jean-Baptiste Fressoz

    Happy Apocalypse. A History of Technological Risk

  • Tim Anstey

    Things That Move. A Hinterland in Architectural History

  • Christophe Van Gerrewey

    Something Completely Different. Architecture in Belgium

  • Alma d'Aigle

    Ein Garten

  • Jens Balzer

    After Woke

  • Gustav Magnusson

    Keynote Conversations. 100 Interviews for Reinventing the…

  • DEMOGO studio di architettura

    DEMOGO. Architecture and projects in complex contexts.

  • Susan Buck-Morss, Kevin McCaughey, Adam…

    Seeing <—> Making. Room for Thought

  • Maurice Nio

    The Suspense of Architecture. The Necessity to Shine

  • Peter Friedrich Stephan

    Designing Concerns. Bruno Latour und das Transformation…

  • Labor für die alltägliche Stadt,…

    TOUCH.01 Tactics of Urban Change.01 | Kollaboratives Wohnen

  • Reinhold Martin, Claire Zimmerman (eds…

    Architecture against Democracy. Histories of the…

  • Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Jennifer Deger…

    Field Guide to the Patchy Anthropocene. The New Nature

  • Marouane Ben Belfort, WIP Office

    Nuykuln. Berlin's quarter and its Arab and Turkish…

  • Clara Herrmann, Elise Misao Hunchuck,…

    The AI Anarchies Book

  • Laurenz Berger, Barbara Weber

    Zukunft Bestand. Ökosoziale Transformation von…

  • Nitin Bathla (Ed.)

    Researching Otherwise. Pluriversal Methodologies for…

  • Carolin Genz, Olaf Schnur, Jürgen Aring…

    WohnWissen. 100 Begriffe des Wohnens

  • Richard Evans

    Listening to the Music the Machines Make. Inventing…

  • Anna Beckers, Gunther Teubner

    Digitale Aktanten, Hybride, Schwärme. Drei Haftungsregime…

  • Justine Blau

    Justine Blau. Veil of Nature

  • Eduarda Neves

    Minor Bestiary. Time and Labyrinth in Contemporary Art

  • Kirsten Angermann, Hans-Rudolf Meier,…

    Denkmal Postmoderne. Bestände einer (un)geliebten Epoche

  • dérive

    dérive N° 96, Antimodern, antidemokratisch, revisionistisch…

  • Arch+ Zeitschrift für Architektur und…

    Arch+ 256. Umbau. Ansätze der Transformation

  • Martino Gamper

    100 Chairs in 100 Days and its 100 Ways

  • Paul O'Neill (Ed.)

    Not Going It Alone. Collective Curatorial Curating

  • Olivia Broome

    Brutalist Plants

  • Lucy Lippard

    I See / You Mean. A Novel

  • Ruth Catlow, Penny Rafferty (eds.)

    Radical Friends. Decentralised Autonomous Organisations and…

  • Loretta Napoleoni

    Technocapitalism. The Rise of the New Robber Barons and the…

  • Ben Murphy

    Ears to the Ground. Adventures in Field Recording &…

  • Justin Patrick Moore

    The Radio Phonics Laboratory. Telecommunications, Speech…

  • Alexander Kühne

    Der Jugendclub Extrem. Lugau 1984 - 1994

  • Ruth Buchanan, Fiona McGovern

    Scores for Transformation (A conversation). Ruth Buchanan,…

  • Carey Jewitt, Sara Price

    Digital Touch

  • Mark Coeckelbergh

    Why AI Undermines Democracy and What To Do About It

  • Peter Godfrey-Smith

    Metazoa. Die Geburt des Geistes aus dem Leben der Tiere

  • OFFICE and Tom Muratore

    The Politics of Public Space: Volume Five

  • Fanny Chiarello

    Basta Now. Women, Trans & Non-binary in Experimental…

  • &beyond collective for Theatrum…

    Sonic Urbanism: Listening to Non-Human Life

  • Croatian Architects' Association

    Designing in Coexistence - Reflections on Systemic Change

  • Anastasia Khodyreva, Elina Suoyrjö

    Aquatic Encounters. A Glossary of Hydrofeminisms

  • Yancey Strickler, The Dark Forest…

    The Dark Forest Anthology of the Internet

  • Patrick McGraw, Heavy Traffic

    Heavy Traffic Issue IV

  • Alexander Kluge

    Der Konjunktiv der Bilder. Meine Virtuelle Kamera (K.I.)

  • Sara Zeller, Evelyn Steiner (Hg.)

    Design für Alle? Inklusive Gestaltung heute

  • Arturo Escobar, Michal Osterweil, Kriti…

    Relationality. An Emergent Politics of Life Beyond the Human

  • Kim Dovey et. al.

    Atlas of Informal Settlement. Understanding Self-Organized…

  • Claire Bishop

    Disordered Attention. How We Look at Art and Performance…

  • Philip Widmann

    Film Undone – Elements of a Latent Cinema

  • McKenzie Wark

    Raven

  • Aruna D’Souza

    Imperfect Solidarities

  • Sandra Hofmeister

    Architektur und Klimawandel. 20 Interviews zur Zukunft des…

  • Gerry Leonidas (Ed.)

    Designing type revivals. Handbook for a historical approach…

  • Jochen Becker, Anna Schäffler, Simon…

    Glossar Urbane Praxis. Auf dem Weg zu einem Mannifest /…

  • Cyril Béghin (Ed.)

    Chantal Akerman. Oeuvre écrite et parlée

  • Hansjörg Gadient

    Spielraum. Kindergerechte Freiräume planen und bauen

  • Diamond Schmitt Architects

    Set Pieces. Architecture for the Performing Arts in Fifteen…

  • Roberto Gargiani, ed.

    Simple Architecture: Villa Baizeau in Carthage by Le…

  • Leonhard Laupichler, Sophia Brinkgerd (…

    New Aesthetic 1. A Collection of Experimental and…

  • Martin Mosch

    Die typografische Komposition

  • Vera Egbers, Christa Kamleithner, Özge…

    Architectures of Colonialism

  • Anna-Maria Meister, Teresa Fankhänel,…

    Are You a Model? On an Architectural Medium of Spatial…

  • Gilbert Simondon, Emmanuel Alloa (Hg.)

    Imagination und Invention

  • Philipp Schönthaler

    Wie rationale Maschinen romantisch wurden

  • Artemy Magun

    The Temptation of Non-Being: Negativity in Aesthetics

  • Nicolas Uphaus

    Frei. Selbstständig arbeiten als Designer (2. überarb.…

  • Anne Querrien, Brigitta Kuster (Hg.)

    Maschinen | Gefüge | Karten

  • Sabine Nuss

    Wessen Freiheit, welche Gleichheit? Das Versprechen einer…

  • Legacy Russell

    Black Meme. A History of The Images That Make Us

  • Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Hal Foster

    Exit Interview. Benjamin Buchloh in conversation with Hal…

  • Gabriel Catren

    Pleromatica, or Elsinore's Trance

  • You Can Sit With Us

    You Can Sit With Us - 24/7

  • Johann Braun

    Stadt von Rechts. Über Brennpunkte und Ordnungsversuche

  • Domitilla Dardi

    Playgrounding. The playground as a symbolic form of society…

IDEA 405. Sneaking a Look. Cross Sections, Floor Plans & Exploded Diagrams: Visualizing the Invisible

Direction by Idea 
Design by LABORATORIES (Kensaku Kato, Sae Kamata)

Visual representations depicting the inside of cities and structures that human eyes cannot normally see have a mysterious allure that captures the imagination of the viewer, including structural drawings and floor plans depicting the framework of buildings, cross- sectional views of subways and sewers crawling underground in huge cities, and bird’s-eye views of production lines inside closed factories. The illustrations in thepicture books, which depict exploded views of vehicles and machines, human anatomy, and the contents of vegetables and plants, attract many children. Bird’s eye views of the city and house floor plans also serve as visual devices that engage adults’ memories and imaginations.
 
Seeing or drawing invisible objects is one of the fundamental human desires. When and how did illustrations, such as cross sections and bird’s eye views, come into existence? Its origins can be traced, for example, to the cave paintings left by Aborigines in prehistoric Australia (known as “x-rays,” paintings of animals and fish with transparent bones and organs). As time progressed, many cross- sectional representations were used in medicine and engineering to explain the inner workings. Some of them, such as Leonardo da Vinci’s anatomical drawings of the human anatomy, went beyond their original use and reached the realm of art. Furthermore, from the latter half of the 19th century to the 20th century, with the spread of printing technology, people in Europe and the United States became familiar with cutaway or cross-section illustrations for newspapers and magazines. During the Great War in the 20th century, many cutaway illustrations of modern fighter jets, tanks, and battleships were drawn in Japanese children’s science magazines and comics.
 
In Japanese visual culture, which has a long history of grasping space with a perspective that differs from the realistic pictorial representation of the West, such as suiboku-ga (ink painting) and ukiyo-e (Japanese woodblock prints), illustration seems to be familiar as a method of expressing lyricism and ambiguity rather than a functional one. We might say it is an intermediate expression, neither written nor painted. This may be due in part to the influence of the“Heta-uma” illustrations (designating a work poorly drawn, but with an aesthetically conscious quality)by artists such as Teruhiko Yumura and Kotobuki Shiriagari, which became popular in the field of commercial illustration in the 1980s.
 
On the other hand, “infographics” and “data visualization” in the field of graphic design play a functional role in explaining things through diagrams, a role that illustration has not played in Japanese visual culture. But we have a concern that the rise of computer graphics and the tendency of people to place an excessive priority on “comprehensibility” in recent years have led to the uniformity of expressions. What kind of expression is it that sublimates the rich expression that illustration has fostered and connects both illustration and design?
 
In this special issue, we explore the “visual representation,” that is graphics, regardless of field. The eight artists of all times and places we feature in this special issue are from different backgrounds, some as illustrators and others as architects and game-graphers. They all focus on depicting the “inside of things” and continue to produce eye- catching works using expressions such as cross-sectional drawings and floor plans. We will also introduce the work of authors who are fascinated by drawing the invisible, such as spatial expressions in picture books and illustrations in the areas of maps and architecture in our contributions and small features in the latter half of the special issue. We hope that many readers will encounter new discoveries and excitement through their perspective.


IDEA Magazine
IDEA 405. Sneaking a Look. Cross Sections, Floor Plans & Exploded Diagrams: Visualizing the Invisible
Seibundo Shinkosha, 2024, IDEA395 2024.03
33,50 €