Understanding Architecture Through Drawing
without abstraction or inspiration (although it is often sadly the case), rather it serves to remind society that designers solv ...
The type of drawing employed reflects well the intellectual inquiries undertaken by the architect. The plan is often the primary ...
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Part One Guiding Principles ...
Chapter 2 Why draw? There is an undisguised air of evangelism running through this book, for it seeks to encourage students of a ...
The drawing skills are outlined in this book under simple headings such as shade, line weight, composition and rules of perspect ...
2.2 Richard Reid’s analytical drawings of farm buildings led, at least indirectly, to the design of his visitor centre at Chartw ...
2.4 Decorative railings can be taxing to draw but the effort is worth while if it leads to the preservation of attractive featur ...
detailed study of a subject through the freehand drawing leads naturally to creative design by opening up different possibilitie ...
2.7 This sketch made at a street café in Andraixt in Majorca is drawn in pencil on smooth cartridge paper. The shading is intend ...
2.9 (left) This study of Hill House, Helensburgh, by the architect Nick Hirst captures the essence of the building as a collage ...
The architect Richard Reid uses the sketchbook in a similar fashion today. His studies of oasthouses in Kent were the inspiratio ...
2.11 a, b, c and d This sequence of four comparisons of sketches and photographs of central Glasgow shows the benefits of freeha ...
MATERIALS The artist of today has never been so fortunate with regard to drawing equipment. Modern waterproof felt-tip pens, clu ...
point for people learning to draw since corrections are easily made and the graphite or lead pencil has a ‘graininess’ suitable ...
LOOKING AND SEEING THROUGH DRAWING: MODERN SKETCHBOOK PRACTICE The practice of looking is as important as the practice of design ...
2.12 Sketch for unrealised Samsung Headquarters Building in London by Sir Terry Farrell. Notice the similarity in the use of lin ...
paper, often developed in parallel with model-making, are the beginnings of a story of design development. Drawing is essentiall ...
Chapter 3 Choosing the subject It is no good dashing off a sketch on your first visit to a new city or to an interesting buildin ...
low walls or steps to sit on, then planning in advance is doubly necessary. You might well find that the best angles for drawing ...
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