Translations from Drawing to Building and Other Essays

Before embarking on the investigation of drawing's role in architecture, a few words might be spent on language; more particularly on the common antilogy that would have architecture be like language but also independent of it. All things with conceptual dimensions are like language, as all grey things are like elephants. A great deal in architecture may be language-like without being language.

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antilogy |anˈtɪlədʒi|noun (pl.antilogies) archaica contradiction in terms or ideas.ORIGIN early 17th cent.: from French antilogie, from Greek antilogia, from anti- ‘against’ + -logia (see -logy) .