ABSTRACT
This chapter explores and discusses Marco Frascari's work on representation is to draw attention to, and outlines, particular interests and distinguishing features of his theorization of the subject. In the architectural profession and in academia, Frascari's stance that architects should refrain from presenting and talking about their own designs, and only present and talk about their dreams, is quite unusual. Frascari's professional activities included design consultancies with other architectural practices, and in 1992 he was appointed Professional Advisor to the Superintendent of Alberti's Sant'Andrea in Mantua. Throughout his career, Frascari continually theorized the representation of architecture, and he was particularly interested in architectural drawings. In current architectural practice and education, consideration of anthropomorphism in architecture, which is described by Frascari "as the ascription of human characteristics and attributes to buildings and edifices,"16 are almost non-existent. For Frascari, imaginative theory derived through scholarly and intellectual pursuits formed a significant part of the memory theater he deployed to create his architectural projects.
