Translations from Drawing to Building and Other Essays

First published in 1997, this book brings together eight of the most interesting and significant essays by the unequalled historian Robin Evans. Written over a period of 20 years from 1970, shortly after his graduation from the Architectural Association (AA), to 1990, the essays cover a wide range of architectural concerns: domestic space, society’s involvement with building types, aspects of geometry, modes of projection and drawing as a process for generating ideas. The book includes “Mies van der Rohe's Paradoxical Symmetries” and other essays first published in AA Files.

Evans's writings are supported by a new introduction and an annotated bibliography by Richard Difford. [publisher's note]