Mapping in Architectural Discourse: Place-Time Discontinuities

This book explores the notion of mapping in architectural discourse. First locating, positioning and theorizing mapping, it then makes explicit the relationship between research and design in architecture through cartography and spatial analysis.

It proposes three distinct modalities: tool, operation and concept, showing how these methods lead to discursive aspects of architectural work and highlighting mapping as an instrument in developing architectural form. It emphasizes the importance of place and time as fundamental terms with which to understand the role of mapping. An investigation into architectural discourse, this book will appeal to academics and researchers within the discipline with a particular interest in theory, history and cartography.

Marc Schoonderbeek is an architect and associate professor at the Faculty of Architecture, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, where he is Program Director of the Borders & Territories research group. He currently acts as Research Nestor for the Department of Architecture at TU Delft. He is an editor of the journals Footprint and Modi Operandi. He lectured at numerous architecture institutes and contributes regularly to architectural magazines and academic journals. Previous publications include Houses in Transformation: Interventions in European Gentrification; Border Conditions and X Agendas for Architecture.