Eleven Exercises in the Art of Architectural Drawing: Slow-Food for the Architect’s Imagination

These are not prescriptions, says Frascari (architecture, Carleton U., Canada), there is nothing here to memorize and reproduce, only fuzzy ideas to inspire architects to think with their pencils. There is an uneven rhythm between his chapters and the exercises--some chapters with none and others with two. Among the chapters are drawings as loci for thought, the pregnancy of drawing, architectural consciousness, traces and architecture, and cosmopoiesis and world making. Among the exercises are food colors, improper drawing, scale figures, the mosaic, blind drawing, the single drawing, and verso-recto. Annotation 穢2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)