Introduction

This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of the book. The book introduces Marco Frascari's thoughts for anyone who is new to his writings. It focuses on Frascari's theories of imagination by developing the idea of drawings as forms of dreams. The book explains the theory of imagination, which is all the more relevant at a time when the debate on architectural representation focuses predominantly on the tools employed, with the risk of reducing scholarly discussion to the perceived analogue versus digital polarities. It includes the fundamental abductive hypothesis that dreams are the primary mode of imagining, drawing and thinking, but it also opens the doors for everyone to construe and construct architecture beyond dreams. The "Dream House" is an open work that can be entered from many directions and constitutes an original point of departure to orient the contemporary theory and practice of architecture.