Download or read book Diagrams: Tropes, Tools, Abstract Machines written by Christoph Lueder and published by AADR – Art Architecture Design Research. This book was released on 2020-11-04 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diagrams: Tropes, Tools and Abstract Machines examines the pervasive roles of diagrams as analytical, generative, narrative and critical devices manifest in design practices by architects and non-architects that draw on thick cultural milieus and that operate at personal, architectural and urban scales. What are potentials of diagrams beyond representation, as situated cultural practices, corporeal engagement and choreographic script, as instruments of speculation and invention, as manifestation of ideas and incrimination of ideology, as abstract machines in scenarios of allopoïesis, autopoïesis and cosmopoïesis?