Eleven exercises in the art of architectural drawing : slow-food for the architect's imagination / Marco Frascari.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frascari, Marco, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architectural drawing--Technique.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 213 p. ) ill. (chiefly col.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This text offers 11 servings of 'slow food' for the architectural imagination as opposed to the tasteless 'fast food' that dominates many drawing tables or digital tablets.

This book deals with the critical nature and crucial role of architectural drawings. A manual which is essentially not a manual; it is an elucidation of an elegant manner for practising architecture. Organized around eleven exercises, the book does not emphasize speed, nor incorporate many timesaving tricks typical of drawing books, but rather proposes a slow, meditative process for construing drawings and for drawing constructing thoughts. This is an indispensable reference text and an effective textbook for students seeking to advance their appreciation of the nature and exercise of architectural drawings. This book deals with the critical nature and crucial role of architectural drawings. A manual which is essentially not a manual; it is an elucidation of an elegant manner for practising architecture. Organized around eleven exercises, the book does not emphasize speed, nor incorporate many timesaving tricks typical of drawing books, but rather proposes a slow, meditative process for construing drawings and for drawing constructing thoughts. This is an indispensable reference text and an effective textbook for students seeking to advance their appreciation of the nature and exercise of architectural drawings.

Contents:

Architectural iconoclasm

The cosmopoiesis of architectural drawings

Festina lente

Drawings as loci for thought

The pregnancy of drawings

Nullo die sine linea

Architectural consciousness

Architectural brouillons: work intended to be recopied

Cosmopoiesis and elegant drawings

Traces and architecture

Tools for architectural thinking

Disegnare designare

The light of drawing imagination

Cosmopoiesis and world-making.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-136-85937-3

0-203-83585-9

9786613105035

1-283-10503-9

1-136-85938-1

OCLC:

712037585