Drawing Imagining Building: Embodiment in Architectural Design Practices

ISBN-13: 9780367730574 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 262 str.

Paul Emmons

Opis

Drawing Imagining Building focuses on the history of hand drawing practices to capture some of the most crucial and overlooked parts of the process. Using 80 black and white images to illustrate the examples, it examines architectural drawing practices to elucidate the ways drawing advances the architect’s imagination.

Spis treści

Introduction: Signs of Design Part I: Drawing genera 1. Footprint Plans 2. Upright Elevations 3. Immured Sections Part II: Drawing marks 4. Flowing Lines 5. Occult Dashed Lines 6. Synesthetic Material Symbols Part III Drawing into building 7. Animate Instruments and Media 8. Play of Scale. 9. Adaptions References

O autorze

Paul Emmons is a registered architect and a professor of architecture at Virginia Tech, USA where he is Associate Dean of Graduate Studies for the College of Architecture and Urban Studies. Dr. Emmons is based at the Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center and coordinates its stream of the PhD Program in Architecture + Design Research. His widely presented and published research includes recently co-editing Confabulations, Storytelling in Architecture and Ceilings and Dreams: The Architecture of Levity.