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Size matters: virtual scale and bodily imagination in architectural drawing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 October 2006

Paul Emmons
Paul Emmons
Affiliation:
Washington-Alexandria Architecture Centre, Virginia Tech, 1001 Prince Street, Alexandria Virginia 22314 USApemmons@vt.edu
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The rich, long history of scale as the imaginative inhabitation of a drawing provides a critique of the seductive but illusory exactness of ‘full scale’ representations in CAD.

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arq: Architectural Research Quarterly , Volume 9 , Issue 3-4 , September 2005 , pp. 227 - 235
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2005 Cambridge University Press