WWW Drawing: Architectural Drawing from Pencil to Pixel
Janet Abrams, Mehrdad Hadighi (Editors)
Actar Publishers, October 2020

Paperback | 7-1/2 x 11 inches | 128 pages | English | ISBN: 9781948765220 | $44.95

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WWW Drawing explores architectural drawing in relation to technique and technology.  What is the role of drawing for architecture, in a digital age" Articles have been written about the implicit value of hand drawing in comparison to computer-generated drawing; conferences and symposia on drawing have been held, even asking if drawing is dead!
WWW Drawing?a project of Pennsylvania State University?s Department of Architecture?explored the issues through events including a giant-scale drawing workshop and a symposium held at the Drawing Center, New York. WWW refers both to the World Wide Web, and the Three Ws: architects Michael Webb, Mark West and James Wines, who reflect on their individual approaches to hand drawing in this volume. Artists and architects of a younger generation ? Daniel Cardoso Llach, Andrew Heumann, Jürg Lehni, Jane Nisselson, Seher Shah and Ann Tarantino ? address various aspects of architectural drawing, both analog and digital. Together, their research and creative explorations ? into contrasting ideologies of early computer-aided design; technology as expressive vocabulary; and drawing as live performance, whether done by hand or robotic drawing machines ? cast architectural d...