Understanding Architecture Through Drawing
Price: $44.95
Add to Cart- ISBN: 978-0-415-44414-9
- Binding: Paperback (also available in Hardback)
- Published by: Taylor and Francis
- Publication Date: 7th September 2008
- Pages: 272
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About the Book
This new edition is fully revised and updated and includes new chapters on sustainability, history and archaeology, designing through drawing and drawing in architectural practice. The book introduces design and graphic techniques aimed to help designers increase their understanding of buildings and places through drawing. For many, the camera has replaced the sketchbook, but here the author argues that freehand drawing as a means of analysing and understanding buildings develops visual sensitivity and awareness of design.
By combining design theory with practical lessons in drawing, Understanding Architecture through Drawing encourages the use of the sketchbook as a creative and critical tool. The book is highly illustrated and is an essential manual on freehand drawing techniques for students of architecture, landscape architecture, town and country planning and urban design.
Table of Contents
Introduction Part 1 Guiding Principles Part 2 Techniques Part 3 Case Studies of Drawing Part 4 The Way Forward Bibliography Index
About the Author(s)
Brian Edwards is an architect, town planner, writer, teacher and artist. He has taught in various schools and has been Professor of Architecture at Huddersfield and Heriot Watt universities and the Edinburgh College of Art. He has written over 16 books, seven of which published by Spon Press/Taylor & Francis.