ELEVEN EXERCISES IN THE ART OF ARCHITECTURAL DRAWING

Description

Eleven Exercises in the Art of Architectural Drawing. Slow Food for the Architect’s Imagination

This book deals with the critical nature and crucial role of architectural drawings. A manual which is essentially not a manual; it is an elucidation of an elegant manner for practising architecture.

Organized around eleven exercises, the book does not emphasize speed, nor incorporate many timesaving tricks typical of drawing books, but rather proposes a slow, meditative process for construing drawings and for drawing constructing thoughts.

This is an indispensable reference text and an effective textbook for students seeking to advance their appreciation of the nature and exercise of architectural drawings.

CONTENTS

• 1. Architectural Iconoclasm
• 2. The Cosmopoiesis of Architectural Drawings
• 3. Festina Lente
• 4. Drawings as Loci for Thought
• 5. The Pregnancy of Drawings
• 6. Nullo die sine linea
• 7. Architectural Consciousness
• 8. Architectural Brouillons: Work Intended to be Recopied
• 9. Cosmopoiesis and Elegant Drawings
• 10. Traces and Architecture
• 11. Tools for Architectural Thinking
• 12. Disegnare Designare
• 13. The Light of Drawing Imagination
• 14. Cosmopoiesis and World-Making.

214 pages / 19 x 25 cm