- Robin Evans
Robin Evans (
May 8 ,1944 –February 19 ,1993 ) was an architect, teacher and historian. He grew up in Essex, England, attending British state schools where he met his wife, teacher Janet Bance - before studying Architecture at theArchitectural Association School of Architecture (the AA), gaining his Diploma and the Bristol Prize (1969).Evans studied the history of prison architecture for his doctorate. His essays and reviews were published in journals including "Lotus", "Cara Bella", "Architectural Review" and "AA Quarterly". He lectured in Cambridge, England, AA, and the Bartlett School, University College London. Evans also lectured widely in the USA at Harvard, Columbia, Pennsylvania, Princeton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Cornell.
Before his death he completed "The Projective Cast: Architecture and Its Three Geometries" (the MIT Press,1995). A history of architecture from Early
Renaissance topost-modernity - Evans writes about architectural concern for the meanings of space and matter, perception and imagination.Evans's theories of projection have been extended by digital theorist Jules Moloney who argues they are the product of a paper-based history of architectural drawing.
"Projection and its analogues": The Arrested Image, Robin Evans (from "The Projective Cast", MIT, 1995)
References
* 'Robin Michael Evans, 8 May 1944 - 19 February 1993', "Memorial Service", Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 5 October 1993. Including transcripts of addresses given by Peter G. Rowe, Homa Fardjadi, Edward Robbins, Robin Middleton and Wendy Kohn.
* Mark Rakatansky, 'In Memoriam: Robin Evans 1944-1993', "Columbia Documents of Architecture and Theory" no.3 (1993), pp. 174-82.
* Philip Tabor, 'Oddity of Geometry', review of "The Projective Cast, Architectural Review," vol. 198, no. 1181 (July 1995), p.96.
* Andrew Ballantyne, review of "The Projective Cast, Times Literary Supplement," 10 November 1995,p.16.* Robert Tavernor, review of "The Projective Cast, Architectural Research Quarterly," vol.1,no.2 (Winter 1995), pp.93-94.
* Jules Moloney, [http://www.chart.ac.uk/chart1999/papers/moloney.html Collapsing the Tetrahedron: Architecture with(in) Digital Machines] (1999)
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