＂He draws like a dream… apparently effortlessly.＂
--Peter Cook on Archigram’s Ron Herron.
The Architectural Drawing Book: A Survey of Drawing from Prehistory
to the Present comprises an overview of drawing and architecture
related imagery, as well as key texts in the field throughout history,
and touches on subjects such as developments in technology and
their impacting on both the methods and manifestations of drawing.
The book considers various forms of architectural representations and
projections such as plans, sections, per spectives and exploded
axonometrics. It also explores the impact of the computer on drawing
and current debates, taking place between practicioners of analogic
and electronically assisted methods of drawing.
The extensive breadth of figures touched upon include vitruvius,
Alberti, Da vinci, Serlio and Piranesi, through to Choisy, john Soane,
El Lissitzky, Wright, Le Corbusier, Eisenman, Constant, james
Gowan and Ted Cullinan, to name but a f ew. The Architectural
Drawing Book also takes into account sources of drawing that are
not directly a part of architectural discourse but that can be seen as
related or indebted to it, such as the fields of engineering, fashion
and art. In the latter context The Architectural Drawing Book looks
at the work of Mary Miss, Gordon Matta Clark, Dan Graham, Rachel
Whiteread and Paul Noble, amongst many others.
