ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book examines the outcomes of housing spatial representation within the format of the artist's book and the possibilities for documenting space within the book. It explores the potential role of artists' books within the realm of architectural representation and proposes the book itself as another three-dimensional, complementary architectural representation with a generational and propositional role within the design process. The book also examines the relationships between books and architectural drawings, models and buildings. It considers how the form of the book affects the conception, construction and reading of architectural work and becomes a site for architectural imagining and discourse. The book proposes thinking through the book as a form of spatial practice, one in which the book is cast as object, outcome, process and tool. It explores the contemporaneity of the physical, paginal object.
