{"product_id":"the-essential-architectural-hand-drawing-guidebook","title":"The Essential Architectural Hand-Drawing Guidebook","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBook info:\u003c\/strong\u003e The Essential Architectural Hand-Drawing Guidebook (Paperback, 320 pages) – Routledge, 2016. Language: English.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eDrawing and Analyzing Architecture shows you how to translate your thoughts to images. This is a tactile method that will help you make more thoughtful architecture focused on the building's human scale, context, and your own social responsibility, rather than mastering a computer program. The numerous exercises teach you to understand buildings and places by sketching on-site and making analytical diagrams, because the best way to discover (and not forget!) intrinsic properties is to have the experience in-person, recording your findings for later use. You'll learn that the language of architectural representation equally applies to free-hand sketching and computer drawings, so you'll be better able to communicate important design information to your instructor and critics. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy first exploring and developing ideas as quick, easy free-hand sketches and diagrams, your projects will be well-developed before you move to the computer, and you can record ideas anywhere you have a writing instrument and paper, or a touchscreen device with a stylus. Along with the exercises, the many example drawings of buildings from throughout architecture history will improve your visual imagination so you can create complex three-dimensional designs, quickly and accurately on paper. When you draw by hand you'll understand intuitively why line weights are important and that they're easily adjusted without really thinking about it, just by pressing harder with a pencil or using a thicker pen, so that when you get to the computer you'll know what lines need to be heavier and why. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat you'll learn:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStandard architectural drawing conventions, which apply to both hand and computer drawingsDiagramming and design development drawing and sketchingMedia, including graphite, colored pencil, charcoal, conte, ink, and watercolorAppropriate techniques recommended for differing building types, structures, and tectonics On-site sketching and analysisAdvanced combinations and variations of conventional graphicsThree basic categories of architectural representation: orthographic, paraline, and perspective drawingsThe art of casting shadows (sciagraphy)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA companion website has supplemental lecture materials for instructors.\u003c\/p\u003e  ","brand":"James Cooper","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46069763801322,"sku":"9780415725217","price":17.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/5301\/6298\/files\/01RmK_J4pJL_1a6f0433-8bd2-4663-ba92-cd546f0d6b43.gif?v=1781222919","url":"https:\/\/textbookme.store\/products\/the-essential-architectural-hand-drawing-guidebook","provider":"TextbookMe","version":"1.0","type":"link"}