Understanding Architecture Through Drawing

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Understanding Architecture Through Drawing Second Edition This new edition is fully revised and updated and includes new chapter ...

First published 2008 by Taylor & Francis 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN Simultaneously published in th ...

Brian Edwards Edinburgh School of Art Understanding Architecture Through Drawing Second Edition ...

Chapter 19 History and archaeology 160 Chapter 20 Interiors 170 Chapter 21 Using drawing to analyse an urban area 178 Case study ...

Acknowledgements The author wishes first to thank those bodies that awarded research grants to undertake the work outlined in th ...

Introduction The aim of this book is to explore how freehand drawing can increase the level of understanding of the complexities ...

perhaps by resort to archival sources or textbooks on construction. Thematic exploration through drawing aids learning about the ...

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Chapter 1 The benefits of drawing The act of drawing is an important starting point for the intellectual process we call ‘design ...

This sketch (dated 1862) by Richard Norman Shaw of Bidborough in Kent shows his interest in vernacular buildings. It is no sur ...

sketchbook is a personal library; it needs to be built up so that it can become a basis for later, undreamt of, designs. Many ar ...

1.4 (above) Glazing details are not always as expressive as here at the Financial Times printing works (designed by Nicholas Gri ...

board, from an appreciation of townscapes to the design of children’s furniture. Questions of scale are hardly relevant – we liv ...

6 Understanding architecture through drawing ...

Prince Charles has awakened the national con- sciousness over questions of urban quality and architectural design. He uses the s ...

1. At the level of house design, sketches by the architect Sir Basil Spence explore options for the general arrangement of the p ...

the sketch rather than the instantly obtained photograph is the means to this awareness. It is said that in our modern world we ...

attention upon design in public fields such as architecture. Hence the world of the professions has been opened to challenge by ...

1. This design sketch by Lord Foster of the Maison Carrée in Nîmes shows drawing being used to explore the relationship between ...