Nader El-Bizri - Recto Verso: Redefining the Sketchbook

RECTO VERSO: REDEFINING THE SKETCHBOOK

Ashgate Studies in Architecture Series

SERIES EDITOR: EAMONN CANNIFFE, MANCHESTER SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY, UK

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Edited by

Angela Bartram
University of Lincoln, UK

Nader El-Bizri
The American University of Beirut, Lebanon

Douglas Gittens
University of Lincoln, UK

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Angela Bartram, Nader El-Bizri and Douglas Gittens 2014

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Recto verso : redefining the sketchbook / by Angela Bartram, Nader El-Bizri and Douglas Gittens.

pages cm. -- (Ashgate studies in architecture)

Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4094-6866-0 (hardback) -- ISBN 978-1-4094-6867-7 (ebook) -- ISBN 978-1-4094-6868-4 (epub) 1. Artists preparatory studies. 2. Notebooks. 3. Architecture--Sketch-books. I. Bartram, Angela, editor of compilation. II. El-Bizri, Nader, editor of compilation. III. Gittens, Douglas, editor of compilation. IV. El-Bizri, Nader, author. By way of an overture.
N7433.5.R43 2014
741--dc23

2013045805

ISBN 9781409468660 (hbk)
ISBN 9781409468677 (ebk-PDF)
ISBN 9781409468684 (ebk-ePUB)

Nader El-Bizri

Nader El-Bizri

John Hendrix

Robert Clarke

Nick Temple

Li Wenmin

Douglas Gittens

Rachel Hurst

Catalina Mejia Moreno

Roohi Shafiq Ahmed and Abdullah Muhammad Iyhab Syed

Angela Bartram

Miriam Stewart

Mario Minichiello

Raymond Lucas

Paul Clarke

Christine Turner

1 By Way of an Overture: Classical Optics and Renaissance Pictorial Arts

2 Parerga Carnet de Croquis: ni oeuvre, ni hors doeuvre

3 Palimpsest

4 The Ontological Sketchbook

5 Plotting the Centre: Bramantes Drawings for the New St. Peters Basilica

7 The Design Sketchbook: Between the Virtual and the Actual

8 Drawn to Each Other: a Love Affair with Sketches

9 One Wound, Two Wounds: The Body as the Site for Writing

10 Lets Draw the Line: The Hidden Pages of Pakistani Artists

12 Curating Sketchbooks: Interpretation, Preservation, Display

13 My Arguments with the World

14 The Sketchbook as Collection: A Phenomenology of Sketching

15 Notebooks and Narratives: The Secret Laboratory of The Architects Sketchbook

16 Sketchbook or Reflective Journal? Documenting the Practical PhD

Roohi S. Ahmed lives and works in Karachi, Pakistan. She teaches at the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture (IVS) in Karachi. As a multi-disciplinary artist, her work often draws upon cartographical references in order to investigate the ontological realities of human existence in a degenerating political, social and religious environment. Ahmed has exhibited widely throughout Pakistan and her work has featured in the 11th Asian Art Biennial in Bangladesh and numerous other international exhibitions. She is currently on a sabbatical to pursue an MFA at COFA. She has coordinated the Foundation Programme at the IVS and lectured for the University of Karachis Visual Studies Department. Ahmed was artist in residence at Vasl (Pakistan), Coast (UK) and Cicada Press (Australia). She curated the exhibition Simply Paper! Co-curating credits include: Michael Esson: A Survey of Drawing; Michael Kempson: A Survey of Prints, Aboriginal Dreams and Lets Draw the Line and 6X6: The Labyrinth in Karachi.

Angela Bartram works in live art, video, sculpture and published text. Bartrams artwork has been included in a variety of exhibitions, including more recent exposure at: Miami International Festival of Performance (2013); at the gallery Grace Exhibition Space (New York 2012); Bristol Live Open Platform (Arnolfini 2012); Action Art Now for O U I International Performance (York 2011); The Future Can Wait (London, 2008 and 2009); EAST International (Norwich 2009); The Animal Gaze (London 2008, Plymouth 2009, Sheffield 2011); EAST goes East (Krakow 2010) and Animalism (Bradford 2009). Recent published texts include: Between Bodies: an Artists Account of the Oral Connection Between Human and Dog, in Intimacy Across Visceral and Digital Performance (M. Chatzichristodoulou and R. Zerihan 2012); Response Oral / Response in Total Art Journal, Volume 1: 2 (N. Loveless, 2012; Performing Lost Space: Recording Architectural Detail With the Body (2012); Oral / Response in Emergency Index (Y. Guzman and M. Yankelevich 2012); One Woman and Her Dogs in Mutual Dependencies (K. Meynell 2011) and The Sacrifices Made by Audiences: The Complicit Discomfort of Viewing Performance Art in Cultural and Ethical Turns: Interdisciplinary Reflections on Culture, Politics and Ethics (B. Garne, S. Pavlenko, S. Shaheen and A. Wolanski 2011). Bartram completed a PhD at the University of Middlesex and is a senior lecturer in fine art at the University of Lincoln. She is also co-collaborator in the research partnership Bartram ONeill with Mary ONeill.