Single-Handedly: Contemporary Architects Draw by Hand
Nalina Moses, Tom Kundig (Foreword)
Princeton Architectural Press, May 2019

Hardcover | 8 x 10 inches | 256 pages | English | ISBN: 978-1616897260 | $50.00

Publisher Description:
Part of the generation of architects who were trained to draw both by hand and with digital tools, Nalina Moses recently returned to hand drawing. Finding it to be direct, pleasurable, and intuitive, she wondered whether other architects felt the same way. Single-Handedly is the result of this inquiry. An inspiring collection of 220 hand drawings by more than forty emerging architects and well-known practitioners from around the world, this book explores the reasons they draw by hand and gives testimony to the continued vitality of hand drawing in architecture. The powerful yet intimate drawings carry larger propositions about materials, space, and construction, and each one stands on its own as a work of art.dDAB Commentary: Architect/writer Nalina Moses and I are of the same generation. I attended architecture school in the first half of the 1990s, starting my education with Lettering and Drawing classes but then taking a CAD class at a local vocational school (the students on year after mine were required to learn on computers, forcing me elsewhere for CAD training) during my last semester so I would be able to get a job upon graduation. Likewise, Moses writes in the Preface to Single-Handedly that she started working ...