Architects draw
"Architects Draw includes more than twenty exercises that explore the most unexpected subjects to train the architect's eye, hand, and mind - bell peppers and seashells as housing; paper bags to reveal architectural planes; shoes to define volume and void; frames and windows to consider problems of measurement and scale; and trees to explore gesture and the interpenetration of form and space - and is illustrated with more than two hundred inspirational student drawings and examples from postgra…
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- Full title :Architects draw / Sue Ferguson Gussow ; introduction by Dore Ashton.
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"Architects Draw includes more than twenty exercises that explore the most unexpected subjects to train the architect's eye, hand, and mind - bell peppers and seashells as housing; paper bags to reveal architectural planes; shoes to define volume and void; frames and windows to consider problems of measurement and scale; and trees to explore gesture and the interpenetration of form and space - and is illustrated with more than two hundred inspirational student drawings and examples from postgraduate architectural practices. Architects Draw offers a clear, practical, and invaluable guide to access the classroom teachings that Gussow has developed throughout her career and made her a legend in the field."--Jacket.
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- Publication Date:©2008.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Princeton Architectural Press
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2008.
The Physical Object
- Description:176 pages : : illustrations (some color) ; : 22 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781568987408, 1568987404
- oclc:ocn163707686
- LC Classification:NA2708
- Dewey Decimal:720.28/4
Table of Contents
The free hand / Dore Ashton -- Drawing from life: the fundamentals -- Where it all begins: peas in a pod -- Critique and the development of judgment -- Bell peppers, garlic broken shells, still lifes -- Drawing from the figure -- The figure in a chair -- Handwriting: the scribble page -- Monkeys, skeletons, dinosaur bones -- The figure and the skeleton -- Lessons from the Masters: homage and reinvention -- The dumb object -- Paper bags -- Giacometti and planar drawing -- Flowers, plants, and Mondrian -- shoescapes -- Feet and legs -- Clutter -- The figure in the studio -- Frame, window, room -- Skulls, heads, portraits -- Trees -- Dirty drawing: advanced Projects -- Drawing in practice: postgraduate work.
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