Drawing Parallels: Knowledge Production in Axonometric Isometric and Oblique Drawings

Drawing Parallels expands your understanding of the workings of architects by looking at their work from an alternative perspective. The book focuses on parallel projections such as axonometric, isometric, and oblique drawings. Ray Lucas argues that by retracing the marks made by architects, we can begin to engage more directly with their practice as it is only by redrawing the work that hidden aspects are revealed. The practice of drawing offers significantly different insights, not easily accessible through discourse analysis, critical theory, or observation. Using James Stirling, JJP Oud, Peter Eisenman, John Hejduk, and Cedric Price as case studies, Lucas highlights each architect’s creative practices which he anaylses with reference to Bergson’s concepts of temporality and cretivity, discussing ther manner in which creative problems are explored and solved. The book also draws on a range of anthropological ideas including skilled practice and enchantment in order to explore why axonometrics are important to architecture and questions the degree to which the drawing convention influences the forms produced by architects. With 60 black-and-white images to illustrate design development, this book would be an essential read for academics and students of architecture with a particular interest in further understanding the inner workings of the architectural creative process.Additional ISBNs1472412834, 1315578042, 0367660733, 9781472412836, 9781315578040, 9780367660734Drawing Parallels: Knowledge Production in Axonometric, Isometric and Oblique Drawings 1st Edition is written by Ray Lucas and published by Routledge. ISBNs for Drawing Parallels are 9781317148203, 1317148207 and the print ISBNs are 9781472412836, 1472412834. Additional ISBNs include 1472412834, 1315578042, 0367660733, 9781472412836, 9781315578040, 9780367660734.