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The Grand Work of Fiction: The Detail as Narrative
Author(s) -
Ford Edward
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.1778
Subject(s) - subconscious , narrative , architecture , subject (documents) , work (physics) , service (business) , sociology , aesthetics , history , management , visual arts , engineering , computer science , art , literature , library science , business , mechanical engineering , medicine , alternative medicine , pathology , marketing , economics
A practising architect and Professor at the University of Virginia School of Architecture, Edward Ford is the leading expert on the architectural detail and the author of three seminal books on the subject. Here Ford explains that, though the decision ‘to abstract or to articulate’ architecture ‘may be largely subconscious’, it is never ‘arbitrary’. For ‘in the well‐designed building, it is done in the service of the creation of a larger narrative, a unity of vision’.