Understanding Architecture Through Drawing

24.7 This sheet of sketches by Lord Foster of Riverside displays an almost Darwinian interest in the evolution of design ideas. ...

begun to combine them onto a single sheet, producing drawings almost without precedent. As a result, architecture has been liber ...

representation or with the beautiful drawing whose roots extend back to the Ecole des Beaux Arts and the Royal Academy but with ...

24.9a, b and c Drawing allows the urban scene to be documented in a way that allows design interventions to be tested. These ske ...

the discipline of drawing it would be difficult to employ in the architecture the imagined life implicit in the brief’. This is ...

Matisse collages that inspired the Bilbao Guggenheim, mirrors that of the sculptor Richard Serra who describes drawing as a ‘ver ...

Chapter 25 Drawing in architectural practice It is now necessary to explore how freehand drawing is employed today in design gen ...

The first set of questions tried to tease out the cerebral role of drawing not just in terms of organising and solving abstract ...

Responses to the research questions by architects interviewed Architect Bob Allies Will Alsop Ted Cullinan Sir Terry Farrell Lor ...

Is site sketching undertaken as design generator? Sometimes No Ye s No Ye s Ye s Ye s No Ye s Ye s Main design development tool ...

former’. A similar view is expressed by Allies, who says he cannot design without drawing, since ‘drawing is how I understand th ...

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Relative importance of drawing, models and CAD at different stages of design evolution by architects interviewed Scale5: very im ...

design work’, arguing that sketching helps reinforce his visual memory, and Alsop does the same. Farrell thinks, too, that his e ...

employed at later stages. Models, either plasticine or card, tend to be used to explain ideas to clients, and CAD becomes essent ...

starts as a self-generated design idea quickly becomes shared as colleagues are drawn into the process. In this sense the freeha ...

25.3 Lord Foster’s sketch of the context for the new BBC headquarters in London. Notice the mixing of lines and words, and the s ...

25.5 Lord Foster’s sketch of the view from the Commerzbank in Frankfurt explains the design concept in a fashion that is readily ...

the preferred medium for the majority of remaining architects interviewed. For Farrell the black felt-tip pen has an authority a ...

practical and aesthetic benefits (Murphy, Gordon Murray, Grimshaw), whilst the smooth quality of such paper in relationship with ...