ABSTRACT
The practice of artists' books, as between representations of architecture, demonstrates the role that the book may play within architectural representation. Understanding the exhibition of architecture as a type of post factum documentation suggests that the exhibition be more than a simulation or representation of a particular building or a display of a collection of the by-products of architectural design processes. The book as a mediation of architecture, as operating in the zone of 'betweenness' of the various representations of architecture, is able to translate the drawing, the photograph, and the text of architecture, and the building itself. The act of reproduction can be seen to be a common factor among the architectural drawing, the building and the artist's book. Analogously, the drawing, the building and the book each intersect with notions of reproduction and have the capacity to document translation.
