Architecture through Drawing
Desley Luscombe, Helen Thomas, Niall Hobhouse (Editors)
Lund Humphries, November 2019

Hardcover | 9-1/2 x 12 inches | 240 pages | 100 illustrations | English | ISBN: 978-1848223776 | £49.95

PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION:
Architecture through Drawing examines how drawing ? as both action and object ? encapsulates complex ideas relating to culture, technology, space and the built environment. Bringing together an array of beautiful and rarely seen drawings dating from the sixteenth century to the present day, all representing different geographical locations, techniques, methodologies and purposes, the book defines a new field for the subject of the drawing in architecture. It reveals the motives for architectural drawing beyond the requirement to document the processes that underpin the realisation of the architectural object. This book asks, fundamentally, whether drawings can illuminate new interpretations of architectural experimentation. Examples range from initial sketches by architects to analytical and construction drawings, perspectives and schematics, collage and more complex presentations and paintings often carried out in association with others.
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dDAB COMMENTARY:
About twenty years ago, when I was working at a fairly large architecture firm in Chicago, a rep from Revit came in to present the future of computer drafting: Building Information Modeling, or BIM. This was in the days before Revit was bought ...