ABSTRACT

This book deals with the critical nature and crucial role of architectural drawings. A manual which is essentially not a manual; it is an elucidation of an elegant manner for practising architecture.

Organized around eleven exercises, the book does not emphasize speed, nor incorporate many timesaving tricks typical of drawing books, but rather proposes a slow, meditative process for construing drawings and for drawing constructing thoughts.

This is an indispensable reference text and an effective textbook for students seeking to advance their appreciation of the nature and exercise of architectural drawings.

chapter 1|8 pages

Architectural Iconoclasm

chapter 3|6 pages

Festina Lente

chapter 4|9 pages

Drawings as Loci for Thought

chapter 5|12 pages

The Pregnancy of Drawings

chapter 6|8 pages

Nullo die sine linea

chapter 7|22 pages

Architectural Consciousness

chapter 9|16 pages

Cosmopoiesis and Elegant Drawings

chapter 10|7 pages

Traces and Architecture

chapter 11|11 pages

Tools for Architectural Thinking

chapter 12|12 pages

Disegnare Designare

chapter 13|10 pages

The Light of Drawing Imagination

chapter 14|24 pages

Cosmopoiesis and World-Making