Drawing Imagining Building: Embodiment in Architectural Design Practices

Drawing Imagining Building focuses on the history of hand-drawing practices to capture some of the most crucial and overlooked parts of the process. Using 80 black and white images to illustrate the examples, it examines architectural drawing practices to elucidate the ways drawing advances the architect’s imagination. Emmons considers drawing practices in the Renaissance and up to the first half of the twentieth century. Combining systematic analysis across time with historical explication presents the development of hand-drawing, while also grounding early modern practices in their historical milieu. Each of the illustrated chapters considers formative aspects of architectural drawing practice, such as upright elevations, flowing lines and occult lines, and drawing scales to identify their roots in an embodied approach to show how hand-drawing contributes to the architect’s productive imagination. By documenting some of the ways of thinking through practices of architectural handdrawing, it describes how practices can enrich the ethical imagination of the architect. This book would be beneficial for academics, practitioners, and students of architecture, particularly those who are interested in the history and significance of hand-drawing and technical drawing.Additional ISBNs1472465261, 1315567601, 036773057X, 9781472465269, 9781315567600, 9780367730574Drawing Imagining Building: Embodiment in Architectural Design Practices 1st Edition is written by Paul Emmons and published by Routledge. ISBNs for Drawing Imagining Building are 9781317179528, 1317179528 and the print ISBNs are 9781472465269, 1472465261. Additional ISBNs include 1472465261, 1315567601, 036773057X, 9781472465269, 9781315567600, 9780367730574.