i am just copy pasting sth from domus site i bumped into tonight. in light of recent discussion here, i think it is useful. kiss dubi

Designing a building is only part of the work of an architect. There is another phase, no less delicate, that regards the way in which the project is presented. A good dose of eloquence is required to get published. So drawings, models and diagrams are the ingredients that contribute to making architecture “famous”, sometimes even before it is finished. Albena Yaneva, fellow of the Akademie Schloss Solitude, has organised three days of discussion on this subject.

The aim is to respond to a series of questions, analysed in terms of the working methods of a number of international practices (such as Diller and Scofidio). How are images of a project made, diffused and manipulated? How do they help the designer develop an idea? What are the challenges that one could resolve through the use of these techniques? Discussing the matter will be historians, sociologists and architectural theorists. E.S.

Stuttgart, Germany The Art of Thinking like an Architect 12.5.2005 – 14.5.2005 Akademie Schloss Solitude, Solitude 3 T +49-0711-99619-134 www.akademie-solitude.de