ABSTRACT
Architectural representation is predominantly concerned with architectural space yet to be materialized. Drawings are produced to picture an imagined building, to assist in 'getting to' the building. Architectural drawings in which the subject matter exists after the drawing may alternatively be described as drawing the idea of the building, or documenting the envisaged reality of the building, and hence be classed as post factum. The role of artists' books within architecture may include the documentation of site analysis and context, the generation of a design project, the progress of a project, the recording of a built work, and the experience of the body in space. Time may be admitted within this documentation, both as a factor of the content, and as a consequence of the structure of the book. The artist's book, in its seriality and sequence, is able to admit narrative to the documentation of architecture.
