
Drawing : The Motive Force of Architecture.
Title:
Drawing : The Motive Force of Architecture.
Author:
Cook, Peter.
ISBN:
9781118700594
Personal Author:
Edition:
2nd ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (243 pages)
Series:
Architectural Design Primer
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Drawing and Motive -- Finding the Appropriate Visual Register -- Experiment and Graphic Vision -- Communicating with Clarity -- Chapter 2: Drawing and Strategy -- The Seen, the Unseen and the Seductive -- The Strategy of Implementation vis-à-vis Confrontation -- The City Transfigured and the Soho Project -- The Advanced Five-Finger Exercise and Fast Company -- Chapter 3: Drawing and Vision -- Viennese Visionaries -- The 20th-Century City-Figure -- Vision Intensified -- The Genesis of Vision -- Drawing as Statement -- Chapter 4: Drawing and Image -- Choosing the Means and Transcending the Medium -- Mannerism -- Paper Architecture -- Imagery as Imagery -- Thought-Through Technique: Ensnaring Spontaneity -- Chapter 5: Drawing and Composition -- Composition Revived -- The Champion of the Axonometric -- Who is the Audience? -- Compositional Hybrids and the Collage Drawing -- Chapter 6: Drawing with Expression and Atmosphere -- The Power of the Depictive Image -- The Calm and the Slamming -- The Observer's Culture -- Extending the Cultural Limits -- Shifting Position -- Architectural Narrative -- Chapter 7: Drawing and Technics -- Operational Drawings -- Architecture as Body-Wrap -- Tectonic and Representational Range -- Subtle Technology and Nuance -- Drawing in Process -- Chapter 8: Drawing and Surface -- Digital Dispassion -- Substance and Atmosphere -- Elaboration and Overstatement -- Conveying Character -- In-Built Metamorphosis -- Chapter 9: Beyond Drawing - Beyond Reality -- A Field of Speculation -- Holding Off the Tedium of Reality -- The Exploratory Scribble as Model -- West Coast Wonderland -- Creativity Explored -- The Drawing Redefined -- Chapter 10: Digital-Manual Drawing and the Power of the Eye -- The Recognitive Eye.
The Manipulative Eye -- The Seductive Eye -- The Back-and-Forth of the Digital -- The Scribbler, the Weaver, the Embroiderer, the Whittler, the Gadget-Maker -- Index -- Picture Credits -- EULA.
Abstract:
Focusing on the creative and inventive significance of drawing for architecture, this book by one of its greatest proponents, Peter Cook, is an established classic. It exudes Cook's delight and catholic appetite for the architectural. Readers are provided with perceptive insights at every turn. The book features some of the greatest and most intriguing drawings by architects, ranging from Frank Lloyd Wright, Heath-Robinson, Le Corbusier, and Otto Wagner to Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Coop Himmelb(l)au, Arata Isozaki, Eric Owen Moss, Bernard Tschumi, and Lebbeus Woods; as well as key works by Cook and other members of the original Archigram group. For this new edition, Cook provides a substantial new chapter that charts the speed at which the trajectory of drawing is moving. It reflects the increasing sophistication of available software and also the ways in which 'hand drawing' and the 'digital' are being eclipsed by new hybrids-injecting a new momentum to drawing. These 'crossovers' provide a whole new territory as attempts are made to release drawing from the boundaries of a solitary moment, a single-viewing position, or a single referential language. Featuring the likes of Toyo Ito, Perry Culper, Izaskun Chinchilla, Kenny Tsui, Ali Rahim, John Berglund, and Lorene Faure, it leads to fascinating insights into the effect that medium has upon intention and definition of an idea or a place. Is a pencil drawing more attuned to a certain architecture than an ink drawing, or is a particular colour evocative of a certain atmosphere? In a world where a Mayer drawing is creatively contributing something different from a Rhino drawing, there is much to demand of future techniques.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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