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About the Author
Mark Dorrian is the Forbes Chair in Architecture at Edinburgh College of Art. Previously, he was at Newcastle University, where he was responsible for the creation of new research led postgraduate programmes in architecture and related disciplines. With Adrian Hawker he is co-director of the art, architecture and urbanism atelier Metis.
Reviews
Writing on the Image is a collection of twelve beautifully written essays ... [Dorrian's] work demonstrates how particular cultural artifacts drive focused criticism that needs to draw upon expansive investigation and understanding. His essays challenge orthodoxies of architectural thought, demonstrating in manifold ways the involvement of the architectural object in complex relays of broader cultural, political and technical forces... * The Journal of Architecture *
The essays [in Writing on the Image] are beautifully written, each a rich education ... Short essays such as those found in this journal are 1,500 word abstracts to a discussion perhaps not yet written, perhaps fully-formed; they merely signal a wider, more complex discourse. Mark Dorrian's Writing on the Image is that discourse. Each case study is embedded in a description of a world exposed to enormous historical and ethical and political forces. * On Site Review *
In the world of nuclear physics Enrico Fermi was recognized by his peers as being equally gifted as an experimentalist and as a theoretician. Dorrian is that rara avis, Fermi's equivalent in the world of architecture ... Reading through these scintillating essays, I often heard echoes of the dialectics and the voice of the renegade American critic Kenneth Burke. * Radical Philosophy *
Writing on the Image is a sort of anti-picture book where the language is at once complex, poetic and explanatory, catching at the history and reception of images. * Interstices: Journal of Architecture and Related Arts *
Book Information
ISBN 9781784530389
Author Professor Mark Dorrian
Format Hardback
Page Count 288
Imprint I.B. Tauris
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 485g
Dimensions(mm) 216mm * 138mm * 33mm