Drawing : the motive force of architecture / Peter Cook.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cook, Peter, 1936- author.

Series:

AD primers

AD primers.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture, Modern.

Architecture--Designs and plans.

Architecture.

Genre:

Architectural drawings.

Physical Description:

248 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), plans (some colour) ; 22 cm.

Edition:

Second edition.

Other Title:

Motive force of architecture.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex, England Wiley, 2014.

Summary:

Focusing on the creative and inventive significance of drawing for architecture, this book is an established classic. Readers are provided with perceptive insights at every turn. The book features some of the greatest and most intriguing drawings by architects, ranging from Frank Lloyd Wright, Heath-Robinson, Le Corbusier, and Otto Wagner to Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Coop Himmelb(l)au, Arata Isozaki, Eric Owen Moss, Bernard Tschumi, and Lebbeus Woods as well as key works by Cook and other members of the original Archigram group. This new edition provides a substantial new chapter that charts the speed at which the trajectory of drawing is moving. It reflects the increasing sophistication of available software and also the ways in which hand drawing and the digital are being eclipsed by new hybrids, injecting a new momentum to drawing. These crossovers provide a whole new territory as attempts are made to release drawing from the boundaries of a solitary moment, a single-viewing position, or a single referential language. Featuring Toyo Ito, Perry Culper, Izaskun Chinchilla, Kenny Tsui, Ali Rahim, John Berglund, and Lorene Faure, it leads to fascinating insights into the effect that medium has upon intention and definition of an idea or a place.

Contents:

Drawing and motive

Drawing and strategy

Drawing and vision

Drawing and image

Drawing and composition

Drawing with expression and atmosphere

Drawing and technics

Drawing and surface

Beyond drawing, beyond reality

Digital-manual drawing and the power of the eye.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781118700648

1118700643

OCLC:

871481785