ABSTRACT
The book format allows the author to experiment with notions of seriality, sequence, narrative, and the relationship between text and image to a potentially wide audience. The book provides a material presence of architectural representation. The book as architectural representation explores the critical facility of artists' books within architecture. The artist's book offers a representation itself that has interiority: a physical one formed through both its objecthood and component pages. This brings into coincidence the interiority of the representation of the book and the imagined interiority of architectural drawings, resulting in what may be referred to as representation's doubleness. The book, like the building and the drawing, may be reproduced, and more easily makes that reproduction evident. Investigating bookness results in the book becoming a highly productive intervening medium with which one can imagine, investigate, analyze, represent and exhibit particular qualities – haptically, and with narrative and ambiguity – of a built environment and the design process.
