Drawing for Architects: How to Explore Concepts, Define Elements, and Create Effective Built Design through Illustration

Drawing for Architects: How to Explore Concepts, Define Elements, and Create Effective Built Design through Illustration

<DIV><P>Immediate and constructive, the physicality of hand drawing, upon which representation formats are based, is a necessary skill needed to communicate ideas in the field of architectural design. <I>Drawing for Architects</I> provides what practicing architects and architectural students need - a technique-based, progression of drawing types and instructions teaching core drawing principles needed to connect drawing with architectural design. Respected architect and author <B>Julia McMorrough</B> outlines issues around each of the types of drawing, showing that the conversations of plan, section, elevation, axonometric, and perspective each have a relation to the kind of design information that drawing makes possible to express. <I>Drawing for Architects</I> explains both the technical and disciplinary importance of drawing and how to enable design creativity and application through its practiced use.</P></DIV>