Understanding Architecture Through Drawing

as entranceways and staircases might deserve a specific sketch, as would windows or railing details in the case of an architect ...

22.14 a, b and c Le Corbusier’s chapel at Ronchamp has lessons for those interested in church architecture. His handling of shap ...

Chapter 23 From sketch to design Having become accustomed to using the sketchbook as an aid to visual understanding, it is not t ...

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designer must consider both the buildings and the space they occupy. Similarly, sketches of Los Angeles show how central the roa ...

23.2 a, b and c This sequence of a photograph and sketches showing urban changes demonstrate how flexible the graphic medium is. ...

think about places and buildings, and hence plays a significant part in how we might approach design. The use of perspective dra ...

concerned with space and symbolism, while office buildings focus upon structure and surface) or the dictates of context. Whether ...

23.4 a, b and c A more ambitious change is described by way of sketches at the Gorbals in Glasgow. Here Alexander Thomson’s chur ...

There comes a time when a more critical and analytical approach is needed, and here formal perspective drawings or computer simu ...

For the artist to become comfortable with using drawing as a creative tool, the sketchbook must be employed as a means of record ...

23.7 This sketch by Ted Cullinan is based upon a masterclass in urban design held in Glasgow in 1992. Cullinan’s ‘dot’ drawing p ...

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23.9 (opposite) More matured proposals by architects Reiach and Hall are detailed in this drawing of 1992 in which the design fo ...

Chapter 24 Designing through drawing The idea as formed in the mind was imperfect and could only be given its consequent form th ...

raises two important concerns. First, can the three- dimensional nature of a building be adequately represented on a flat sheet ...

profession, and although engineers and industrial designers also draw to solve problems their graphic techniques are quite disti ...

making. But when later changes are required, the freehand sketch retains its prime position as the first tool employed in testin ...

techniques of drawing and the perceptual experience of space, the tools employed by architects to represent reality (drawings, m ...

24.5 (left) This sketch by Gemma Hickling, a final year student at Sheffield Hallam University, shows how a single drawing can e ...